One of the settlements established in Africa for Polish civilian refugees who left the USSR in 1942 with General Anders's Army was a refugee camp located in Uganda near the town of Masindi (today, the settlement's site is Nyabeya). Over 3,500 Poles were accommodated there. A hospital with a pharmacy, three primary schools, kindergartens, a general secondary school and a female vocational secondary school were established for them. There were craft workshops, a bakery, two brickyards, a power station and a pump station. Scouting, day care centres and a theatre were organised. Its inhabitants built a church that is still in operation today, with a Polish cemetery next to it. The settlement was liquidated in 1948.

The dead were initially buried at the cemetery in the nearby village of Nyamegita, where 5 Poles were buried. For subsequent burials, an on-site cemetery was already established. An area of 812 m2 is surrounded by a stone wall. There are 44 Polish graves and 7 graves of indigenous people. Opposite the entrance at the fence, a tall cross has been placed on a pedestal with a plaque bearing the metal emblem of the Republic of Poland and the inscription: "MÓDLMY SIĘ / ZA POLAKÓW ZMARŁYCH / 1939-1947 / OREMUS / PRO POLONIS DEFUNCTIS."

The individual graves are covered with concrete slabs on which names, surnames, dates of birth and death are engraved. Concrete crosses rise above the slabs.

The cemetery was renovated in 2005 with funding from the Council for the Protection of Struggle and Martyrdom Sites. A stone fence was then built. In 2022. The Documentation Centre for Displaced Persons, Expulsions and Resettlement of the Pedagogical University of Krakow carried out a major renovation of the cemetery. Cracked tombstones and the main monument were restored and supplemented with an eagle recovered after the theft. As part of the work, eight stolen gravestone plaques were restored. The work was funded by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage under the 'Sites of National Remembrance Abroad' programme.

An information board attached to the fence at the entrance announces that the work has been carried out in 2022.