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Burundi: The South of Country to Receive More Former Refugees From Tanzania
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Burundi Réalités (Bujumbura)
5 February 2008
Posted to the web 5 February 2008
Bujumbura
The South of Burundi will receive many former refugees from Tanzania this year.
This is part of what one senior official of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Judy Cheng Hopkins, told journalists today before her departure to Geneva after visiting Burundi and refugee camps in Tanzania.
Tanzania currently plans to close three refugees' camps within this year. The refugees' camps of Lukole and Tabora will be the first to close. Burundi will be compelled to receive more than 220,000 refugees who will be expelled from Tanzania. As Ms Cheng says, the provinces of Bururi and Makamba in the south of Burundi will receive the brunt of this repatriation movement which is to start in March 2008.
Currently, more than 46, 000 Burundian refugees want to return to Burundi. The problem of land remains, but it is the responsibility of the government to find lands for them, as Ms Cheng Hopkins says. The UNHCR promises that it will support the government of Burundi in coping with this situation as it will continue to monitor the protection and integration of these returnees. UNHCR will grant Burundi more than $20 million in the year 2008. It will build "Peace Villages" in Ruyigi province where 14,000 houses will host half internally displaced people and half returnees from Tanzania.
Are refugees going to have difficulty surviving when 22,000 return to the south from Tanzn and more from elsewhere.
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