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Burundi refugee influx reaches 500 a day

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    UNHCR in Tanzania is making contingency plans for a “major refugee influx” from Burundi as the security situation there worsens. UNHCR spokesman Kris Janowski said on Tuesday that some 500 people a day were now streaming across the border into Tanzania, up from 400 a day reported last week. Since the beginning of November, more than 7,000 Burundians had fled to Tanzania, almost as many as in the entire month of October, he said. “They show signs of fatigue and some are malnourished,” Janowski said. UNHCR is negotiating with the Tanzanian authorities on the expansion of refugee sites, he added.

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