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Kigoma says it can take no more refugees

    NAIROBI

    Kigoma Regional Commissioner Abubakar Mgumia has said all nine camps hosting refugees in the region have reached saturation point and would be immediately sealed off. The Tanzanian 'Guardian' daily quoted him as saying the three camps that had been set up as contingency centres in case
    of congestion - Lugufu I and II, and Karago - had already been filled to capacity. "I am afraid we have no other camps left to offer them [aid agencies] ... They will just have to take the refugees elsewhere," he said. He also complained that the refugees had had a negative impact on development in Kigoma. Incidents of armed robbery and other crimes were on the increase, and the refugees inflicted enormous damage on the
    environment, he said. "Instead of directing efforts on how to develop the region, the problem of refugees consumes about 60 percent of my time," Mgumia stated.

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