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Growing numbers of Burundians return home from the DRC
23 Oct 2006 Since the signing of a cease-fire agreement between the Burundian government and the rebel Forces Nationales de Libération in early September, the number of Burundian refugees returning home from the Democratic Republic of the Congo has increased significantly. -
United States to open doors to thousands of Burundian refugees
18 Oct 2006 The United States has agreed to resettle thousands of Burundian refugees who fled their homeland in 1972. The offer applies to some 13,000 Burundians presently in Tanzania and it will be one of the largest group resettlements proposed by UNHCR in recent years. -
Cuts in UNHCR aid turns Burundian refugee into self-sufficient tailor
12 Oct 2006 François Niziuingimana resents the reduction in assistance by the UN refugee agency, but it has made the refugee from Burundi a popular and self-sufficient member of the community in the tiny mountain kingdom of Swaziland. -
Landmark convoy takes almost 300 Congolese home from Burundi
10 Oct 2006 A landmark convoy carrying almost 300 Congolese refugees arrived Tuesday in the border town of Uvira in Democratic Republic of the Congo. It was the first UNHCR convoy to repatriate Congolese refugees from Burundi and marks the opening of the fifth return corridor to the DRC. -
Burundian refugees face challenges of identity, land ownership on return
28 Aug 2006 Since the year 2000, some 60,000 Burundians have returned to their homeland from Tanzania. The reintegration of the returnees is challenging - especially for people who fled in the early 1970s and those of their children born in camps overseas. -
Pen pal project links Burundian refugees to students in France
30 Jun 2006 Primary school students in Paris are making new friends and getting an insight into the lives of Burundian refugee children in Tanzania's Mtabila Camp under a project launched earlier this year. The project is also getting support from France's prestigious Sciences Po institute. -
UNHCR chief Guterres urges rich countries to invest in Great Lakes region
16 Jun 2006 High Commissioner António Guterres called for rich countries to invest in the economic development of Africa's Great Lakes region to prevent countries slipping back into chaos. Visiting Burundi, he met Burundians struggling to rebuild their lives, and Congolese refugees in the country's north-east. -
UNHCR's Guterres thanks Europe, visits camp for Burundi refugees
15 Jun 2006 High Commissioner António Guterres and his European counterpart, Louis Michel, visited a camp in Tanzania for Burundian refugees. Guterres told the refugees that UNHCR could not support them without European Union aid. -
Congolese refugees quit the Burundian capital and head for a camp
4 May 2006 Unable to make ends meet, the first group of refugees from the Democratic Republic of the Congo is moved from the Burundian capital of Bujumbura to a UNHCR camp in south-eastern Burundi to benefit from the assistance offered there.