Almost all the estimated 760 Congolese refugees who recently arrived in the town of Rumonge have returned to the DRC, the OCHA report said. It said that although the Burundian authorities and UNHCR had offered to transfer the refugees to a transit site at Rugombo in Cibitoke province, “the bulk of them decided to return to Baraka” in DRC’s South Kivu province. Only eight refugees were transferred to the Rugombo site, the report added. The refugees, who fled fighting in Baraka last month, had come ashore in Rumonge when their boat ran out of fuel.
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