More Rwandans expected to return from DRC

OCHA-Rwanda's humanitarian update for March notes that some 5,300 Rwandans have returned to the country from the Masisi and Rutshuru areas of North Kivu since mid-February. Most of them had supported or joined the Interahamwe and had left Rwanda between mid-1997 and mid-1998, the report noted. It was expected that 10,000-15,000 more refugees would return in the coming months, due to insecurity and poor economic and social conditions in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Displaced people's camps in the northwest Ruhengeri and Gisenyi prefectures have been dismantled and most of the formerly displaced population now resides at new settlement sites, the report said. The UN Humanitarian Coordinator noted that while the displaced population may be largely resettled, this did not imply the crisis in the northwest was over.