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95 refugees returned home at new entry point

    BUJUMBURA

    Another 95 Burundi refugees returned home on Wednesday from Tanzania via the new border post at Gahumo, in the eastern province of Cankuzo, Radio Burundi reported.

    The returnees, the majority of whom were women and children, came from the Kibondo I refugee camp in Western Tanzania. These returnees were originally residents of Kigamba Commune, in Cankuzo.

    The returnees boarded a truck of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees for Cankuzo, the main town in the province by the same name. They are being provided shelter while waiting to return to their respective villages, the Radio reported.

    The radio reported that since early in September some 900 hundred refugees had returned from Tanzania via that entry post of Cankuzo. The opening of that corridor follows the recommendations of the tripartite meeting in August between Burundi, UNHCR, and Tanzania. The meeting also recommended the opening of other entry posts in Rutana and Makamba.

    The Ministry of Repatriation has said that some 400,000 Burundi refugees are still in Tanzania.

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