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By 1991 it is estimated that Banyarwanda in Uganda were 1.3 million out of a total population of 18 million in the country. Of these, 450,000 were Ugandan indigenous Banyarwanda who became Ugandans after Kisoro became part of Uganda in 1918 and 650,000 were the Banyarwanda economic immigrants who came to look for work and a few who came to look for pasture for their cattle between 1926 and 1959 of whom 84,000 were the Banyarwanda Tutsi refugees registered under UNHCR.