MSF suspends activities in Bujumbura Rural camps

Medecins sans frontieres (MSF) has suspended its activities in the regroupment camps of Bujumbura Rural province, saying its intervention is having little impact on improving camp conditions. In a press release issued on Friday, MSF said it had been assisting 54,000 people in three camps - Ruyaga, Buhonga and Ruziba. “After two months of relief activities, MSF has found that conditions in these three camps are still falling short of the vital minimum,” the statement said. “Within this context, MSF’s intervention can have little impact on the improvement of the condition of the regrouped people.” It added that the conditions of regroupment itself “deprive the population of its most basic human rights, and are therefore in direct contravention of the principles of the MSF charter”. However, MSF would maintain other programmes in Burundi and remained “prepared to intervene” in the camps.