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Ugandan police have detained 20 Eritreans for entering Uganda illegally, according to Ugandan media reports.

Ugandan police announced on Monday that they had arrested the Eritrean nationals on 25 August in the eastern Uganda town of Jinja, about 140km (86 miles) from the border with Kenya.

The individuals include 12 males, two females and six children.

Uganda’s New Vision newspaper reports that the Eritreans were smuggled through Ethiopia and Kenya before entering Uganda via the Kenya-Uganda border.

Local media also say that authorities believe that the Eritreans were travelling to the suburb of Kabalagala in Uganda's capital of Kampala, which has a large Eritrean and Ethiopian population.