Nairobi — Tens of thousands of Congolese refugees who have been in Burundi since June are an "extra load" on the UN World Food Programme (WFP) that is hampering its capacity to meet food needs for Burundi from September to January 2005.
The agency reported on Friday that, since June, it had delivered 1,000 mt of food aid to the refugees who fled to Burundi from eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The most recent delivery was to roughly 1,000 refugees who survived last week's massacre at Gatumba transit centre in the northwest of the Burundian capital, Bujumbura. More than 100 of the refugees were wounded.
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