The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) began the integration of more than 3, 300 Somali Bantu refugees into the local community in Tanzania, the UN agency reported. UN High Commissioner for Refugees reported that the Somali Bantus fled to Tanzania in 1991 and 1992 following civil war and the collapse of the Siyad Barre government in Somalia. This group was among "tens of thousands" of Somalis who "travelled on overcrowded and rickety dhows to Kenya's coastal town of Mombasa", it said.