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Home > Burundi/DRC: Government offers new sites for DRC refugees
Contributor [1]
Thursday, August 26, 2004 - 03:00
Categories: 
Refugees & forced migration [2]
Issue Number: 
171 [3]
Article-Summary: 

Thousands of Congolese refugees in Burundi are to be relocated away from the border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), an official from the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said on Friday. The announcement comes a week after a massacre of 160 refugees last Friday on a transit camp at Gatumba, which is only 1 km from the border.

Category: 
Human Security [4]
Oldurl: 
http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/refugees/24061 [5]
Country: 
Democratic Republic of Congo [6]
Source URL: https://www.pambazuka.org/node/24545

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