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UNHCR cuts back activities

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    Along with other UN agencies in Burundi, UNHCR announced it had cut back its work outside the capital Bujumbura following the Rutana killings. Its international staff and most local employees had returned to Bujumbura from three field offices in Gitega, Muyinga and Ruyigi, and some of the 23 international workers will be temporarily moved to Nairobi. UNHCR recalled that the Burundi office works mainly on returnee reintegration and monitoring.

    WFP said that until the suspension of humanitarian activities countrywide, it had assessed a total of 18 regroupment sites in Bujumbura Rural. In its latest weekly report, the UN food agency said 127 mt of food had been successfully distributed to 14,860 people. Distributions were being planned for another 138,400 people believed to be in need of food assistance.

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