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Khaliku Kaba will never forget the day he came to Lansing. August 14, 2008 was the day I was scheduled for resettlement, he said. I left the rest of my family in Uganda and I came here by myself. I didn’t know anyone here.
Kaba, 34, came to the United States 13 years ago as part of a U.N. refugee resettlement program. Born in Rhino camp, a settlement in northwest Uganda populated mainly by refugees of the South Sudan civil war, he moved between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo as a child, fleeing conflicts in both countries.
On a 2019 trip back to Rhino camp, Kaba learned life there hasn t gotten much easier: After drinking from the settlement s water source, he contracted typhoid fever and dysentery.