720 Kenyans finally returned home on Tuesday, after seven years of refuge in Uganda.
The group was part of 4,000 Kenyans, who crossed into Uganda at the height of the 2007/2008 post election violence and have since been living at the Kiryandongo refugee camp in Western Uganda.
In a convoy of 12 buses a host of senior Ugandan state officials led by Disaster Preparedness Minister Hillary Onek escorted them up to the Malaba border post where they were handed over to the Kenyan authorities.
According to Apollo Kazungu, the commissioner for refugees in Uganda, the 720 are part of 1,350 Kenyans who expressed interest to go back home during an exercise which was conducted recently, the Ugandan New Vision reports.
The returnees were received at the Malaba dispensary compound where 100 family tents were set up for them.
Another 530 Kenyans are due for repatriation next week.
