More than 300,000 still internally displaced

About 327,506 people are still internally displaced in Burundi, an assessment conducted by the Community Assistance Umbrella Programme and the government has established. The team said these people were either living in camps and similar sites or with host families as of the end of August. WFP reported that this number included some people displaced in 1993. An evaluation of the dismantling process for regroupment sites, conducted by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and NGOs operating in Bujumbura Rural Province, found that most of the sites created in 1999 had been dismantled, but the seven sites created in 1993 had not. About 26,000 people remain in the Bujumbura Rural Province regroupment sites, 6,000 of them since September 1999 and 20,000 since 1993, according to the assessment.