Difficult coexistence between refugees and host communities in Uganda. By Ochan Hannington Livestock may cause conflict Fiona Knight, 23, was on her way home one evening last January when suddenly, she became very scared. "My neighbors and I had gone to collect firewood," she says. "Without warning, some young people from neighboring communities came out of the bush, armed with bows and arrows. They threatened us, and we ran away. But they chased after us together with their dogs. We lost our slippers. And we came back with nothing." It was not the first time Knight had been threatened since she and her family of three sought safety in the Rhino refugee settlement in Northern Uganda, after fleeing violent conflict in South Sudan. Over the past few years, hundreds of thousands of South Sudanese refugees have arrived in the country, building huts on government-allocated land. Formerly remote communities soon found themselves next to a refugee settlement that could assume the size of a city within a matter of weeks. Initially, the refugees were well received. But then conflicts between them and the local population arose — mainly over the increasing lack of resources.