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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. -
Regional approach needed to address roots of displacement in Africa's Great Lakes region, says High Commissioner
3 Mar 2006 After witnessing the optimism of refugees returning home and the despair of other groups fleeing drought and hunger, UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres said Friday that only a regional approach can address the complex causes of displacement in Africa's Great Lakes Region. -
Growing number of Burundians flee to neighbouring Tanzania
14 Feb 2006 A growing number of Burundians are leaving their country for Tanzania, saying that hunger and growing insecurity are forcing them to flee. Their living conditions in the overcrowded Tanzanian way stations where many are staying for weeks are a cause of great concern to UNHCR. -
In Burundi, repatriated schoolchildren easily adjust to their new school
31 Jan 2006 Most of the children who come back to Burundi after spending years attending classes in refugee camps in Tanzania know no other school. But policies enacted by their government mean that those returning do not feel out of place in Burundian schools.