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  • The rehabilitation of the Katalukulu Health Center near Mulongwe site (South Kivu) was completed and medical staff was hired. The Center will benefit both Burundian refugees and host community.
    highlight 28 Feb 2018 (6 years ago)
    Democratic Republic of the Congo / Burundi - Refugees
  • As of 12 June, the 2018 Burundi RRP is only 11% funded. Urgent funding is needed to meet the needs of Burundi refugees in DRC, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda.
    highlight 19 Jun 2018 (6 years ago)
    / Burundi - Refugees
  • In DRC, due to lack of shelter over 700 families are still waiting to be transferred to the new site of Mulongwe. Current funding only guarantees the construction of 100 additional shelters.
    highlight 31 May 2018 (6 years ago)
    / Burundi - Refugees
  • On 28 March 2018 the second Tripartite Commission Meeting was held in Bujumbura, Burundi. UNHCR continues assisting returns of Burundian refugees from Tanzania who are voluntarily choosing to go to their areas of origin.
    highlight 15 Apr 2018 (6 years ago)
    / Burundi - Refugees
  • Nyarugusu, Mtendeli and Nduta in Tanzania carried out a post distribution monitoring assessments on food security and refugee coping mechanisms in May 2018. This assessment is a first step to understand beneficiaries’ food security situation across the three camps.
    highlight 31 May 2018 (6 years ago)
    / Burundi - Refugees
  • UNHCR’s Regional Refugee Coordinator (RRC) for the Burundi situation carried out a brief to Ambassadors and Head of delegations on the needs of Burundian refugees on the 4th May 2018 at the invitation of the US Ambassador, H.E. Robert F. Godec.
    highlight 20 May 2018 (6 years ago)
    / Burundi - Refugees
  • UNHCR’s Regional Refugee Coordinator (RRC) for the Burundi situation carried out a brief to Ambassadors and Head of delegations in Nairobi on the needs of Burundian refugees on July 6, 2018 at the invitation of the Australian High Commissioner, H.E. Ms. Alison Chartres.
    highlight 10 Jul 2018 (6 years ago)
    / Burundi - Refugees
  • The Burundian refugee situation is at present the lowest funded of any situation globally. At present just 28 per cent of the US$206 million needed has been received. The impact on the 400,000 refugees in neighbouring countries is acute.
    highlight 09 Oct 2018 (6 years ago)
    / Burundi - Refugees
  • The lack of funding has stopped UNHCR’s cash-based assistance programme in Rwanda’s Mahama camp for 19,500 families, severely affecting refugees’ ability to meet their own basic needs.
    highlight 09 Oct 2018 (6 years ago)
    / Burundi - Refugees
  • In Uganda’s Nakivale settlement thousands of refugee families are using overcrowded communal latrines, with risk of disease outbreaks, little privacy, and exposure of women and children in particular to protection risks. Education is very basic, with insufficient learning materials and overcrowded classrooms.
    highlight 09 Oct 2018 (6 years ago)
    / Burundi - Refugees