Shelter Centre

Source: IRIN More than 2,000 Congolese Banyamulenge refugees in Burundi have dropped their refusal to move to another camp in Burundi after the intervention of a senior government official.

Source: IRIN Police in Burundi have forcibly prevented a group of refugees from leaving a camp because they intended to trek home to Democratic Republic of Congo, according to residents.

Source: UNHCR UNHCR advises some 2,300 Congolese refugees at a camp in central Burundi to shelve plans to return this week to eastern Congo because of conflict in the area.

Date: 30 Sep 2009
Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees

Source: IRIN More than 2,000 refugees in Burundi have rejected UN appeals to move to a new camp for fear they could be exposed to attack.

Date: 03 Aug 2009
Source: Integrated Regional Information Networks

Source: IRIN At least 2,500 Congolese refugees are to be moved from Burundi's central province of Mwaro to the eastern Ruyigi province in a move aimed at consolidating camps across the country.

Date: 30 Jun 2009
Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees

Date: 29 Jun 2009
Source: Amnesty

By Ben Carter

In 1994 Nyangoma Esperance and her six children fled their home near the Burundi capital. They feared murder at the hands of their own neighbours. For 15 years she has worked hard to build a new life for her family just 6km away but she still dreams of going back.

Burundi is one of the poorest countries in the world with some 80 percent of its population living on less than $1 a day. Like most Burundians, Nyangoma supported her family through farming. She lived with her six children and her father in a place called Gakunrwe, near the capital city, Bujumbura.

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Source: ECHO Burundian refugees will be on the move again in 2009, but they will not be fleeing conflict; instead many will return to their home country from long-term camps in Tanzania, whilst others will become Tanzanian citizens and remain in the country.

BUJUMBURA Thursday, May 07, 2009 (IRIN) - Returning to Burundi after years as a refugee in Tanzania, Jonas Saya knew it would be difficult to reclaim his land from former neighbours who had settled on it.

BUJUMBURA Wednesday, April 29, 2009 (IRIN) - Weeks of torrential rains in and around Bujumbura have worsened living conditions for thousands of residents of an informal settlement on the outskirts of the capital, most of whom have been displaced for years.

BUJUMBURA Tuesday, April 14, 2009 (IRIN) - Rain-induced floods have displaced over 8,000 people in a commune north of Bujumbura, the Burundian capital, and damaged at least 1,200 houses as well as crops, an official has said.

Date: 29 Apr 2009
Source: Integrated Regional Information Networks

Source: IRIN Rain-induced floods have displaced over 8,000 people in a commune north of Bujumbura, the Burundian capital, and damaged at least 1,200 houses as well as crops, an official has said.

Record number of Burundian refugees go back home in 2008 as UNHCR steps up shelter and other reintegration programmes for the returnees.

Source: UNHCR A group of 40 young Burundians become the first returning refugees granted university scholarships by the UN refugee agency.

A group of 40 young Burundians become the first returning refugees granted university scholarships by the UN refugee agency.

Date: 19 Aug 2008
Source: Integrated Regional Information Networks