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New home and hope for refugees in Mozambique
28 Apr 2003 The move to a new camp is more than just a relocation for hundreds of refugees and asylum seekers in Mozambique. -
Feature: Hope and despair for uprooted Burundians
19 Mar 2003 While many Burundian refugees in Tanzania are returning with optimism to the relative safety of northern Burundi, others who continue fleeing rebel fighting in southern Burundi are losing sight of peace. -
UNHCR closes reception centres on Burundi-Congo border
17 Mar 2003 The UN refugee agency has closed Rugombo and Gatumba reception centres in the volatile border area after completing the transfer of Congolese refugees to a safer camp further inland. But it has kept basic facilities at the two centres in the event of another influx of refugees. -
UNHCR moves Congolese refugees to safety in Burundi
13 Feb 2003 Thousands of refugees are set to be transferred away from makeshift centres near the volatile Burundi/Congolese border into camps further inland in Burundi. Many others, however, insist on staying in the border area to observe the situation and cross back home when things calm down. -
Feature: Judgement call for Burundi's returnees
7 Feb 2003 Burundian residents and returnees can now settle land and family disputes out of court through a UNHCR-funded judicial clinic, where legal experts provide informal mediation to help them resolve their differences without the time and expense of normal court proceedings. -
Burundian refugees return to north despite fighting in central province
24 Jan 2003 Undaunted by recent fighting in central Burundi, Burundian refugees in Tanzania are still choosing to return to their homeland's more peaceful north, where they receive a warm welcome from family and friends who stayed behind. -
Feature: Refugees adrift in Africa's Great Lakes region
23 Jan 2003 They are victims of the region's conflicts - born in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to Burundian refugees, but forced to flee back to their parents' homeland by recent fighting in north-eastern Congo. The UN refugee agency in Burundi is trying to find land for some of them and to reunite others with long-lost relatives. -
Thousands of Congolese flee for Burundi amid renewed fighting in south Kivu
7 Jan 2003 A new wave of over 8,500 Congolese has arrived in Burundi as rebel fighting resumes in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Meanwhile, the UN refugee agency continues to transfer existing Congolese refugees into camps further inland. -
Congolese refugees in Burundi transferred away from volatile border region
17 Dec 2002 UNHCR in Burundi moves thousands of Congolese refugees from a volatile border zone to a safer area further inland.