Reports

Summary: By end 2012, the Tanzanian Government closed Mtabila refugee camp and revoked the refugee status for the majority of the Burundian refugees living there. Almost 34,000 Burundian refugees were repatriated, returning nearly 20 years later to…

New York City, January 28, 2014 —Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC) has awarded $736,140 to Concern Worldwide to fund their efforts to reduce child illness and mortality in Burundi. Concern Worldwide is one of nine organizations…

Faits marquants • La deuxième réunion de la Commission Tripartite sur le rapatriement volontaire des 13 000 réfugiés Burundais vivant en Ouganda s'est tenue à Bujumbura du 6 au 8 novembre 2013, pour fixer les modalités pratiques…

UNHCR operational highlights • The second meeting of the Tripartite Commission on the voluntary repatriation of 13,000 Burundian refugees living in Uganda was held in Bujumbura from 6 to 8 November 2013 to set practical modalities for…

Editorial Stay ready and prepared to receive, protect and assist asylum seekers in safety and dignity: a strategy that yielded good results during the influx of Congolese asylum seekers in August and September 2013, in Cibitoke Province.…

Author: Lisa Anderson NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation)— People in Burundi say they would like to have smaller families and there is no shortage of contraceptives, but the impoverished country in Africa’s Great Lakes region struggles with…

GLIDE n° OT-2012-000193-TZA Period covered by this Ops Update15 November 2012 – 20 August 2013. This update represents a sixmonth summary of the operation (cumulative narrative and financial). Appeal target (current): CHF 717,077 Appeal coverage: 41%; Appeal history: A Preliminary Emergency…

Highlights ♦ All refugees and asylum seekers in Cishemere Transit Center have now been either transferred to Kavumu refugee camp or spontaneously returned to DRC . ♦ 26 new asylum seekers were registered between 27 and 28 August…

Highlights Cishemere Transit center population as of 26 August is 415. 136 new asylum seekers were registered between 23 and 26 August 2013. Since the 01 August 2013, a total of 1347 DRC asylum seekers arrived at Cishemere Transit…

Highlights • Population of Cishemere Transit center as of 21 August is 1,060 inividuals, including 131 men, 281 women, 359 girls and 380 boys. • The average of 150 arrivals per day is now decreasing. On 23 August,…