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Making Uganda s Porous Borders Safer Format Loyce Amanio learns the finer points during boat docking training. Immigration officers are trained to drive boats, and to perfect their precision in docking. © IOM/Innocent Vuga “He was shot at in the head, I think it was at close range. A situation like this threatens you a bit,” says a tearful Edward Nayebare as he recalls the night armed gold smugglers from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) killed four of his Uganda border post colleagues. “After an alert from one of the fishermen, my colleague went to check. He never returned. They [killed] him,” says Nayebare, 29, an immigration officer in Ntoroko, on the southern end of Lake Albert, in western Uganda.

Democratic republic of the congoSouth sudanUnited statesLake victoriaTanzania generalLake albertDemocratic republic of the generalEdward nayebareLoyce amanioCharles obwatumDaniel kayihuraOlivier bagumaRichardm kavumaInternational organization for migrationUganda policeDeputy commandant of the immigration training academy