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More than 700,000 people are still in camps for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Bujumbura Rural, Bubanza and Makamba provinces, according to a joint FAO/WFP assessment. It said the majority had a restricted access to land. The assessment, conducted last month, said that although insecurity continued to disrupt economic and agricultural activities, there had been a “relative general improvement” since the end of 1999, with a number of people in IDP camps decreasing from 821,000 people to 704,000, a figure comprising 11 percent of the country’s population.
According to the team, the worst affected provinces are Bujumbura Rural with some 58 percent of its population displaced, followed by Bubanza with 39 percent, Makamba with 33 percent and Bururi with 21 percent. The report further said that security conditions in Makamba are still “precarious” in the communes of Kayogoro, Kibago, Mabanda and Nyanza-Lac.
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