More Burundians obtain Tanzanian citizenship

  1. Posted on Tuesday 16 March 2010 - 15:26
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    Rubakan Eddy, AfricaNews reporter in Bujumbura, Burundi
    At least 155,000 Burundian refugees have sought and obtained the Tanzanian nationality, thereby becoming citizens of that country, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) of Burundi.
    Burundi refugees
    Some of these refugees fled Burundi in the 1970s because of ethnic clashes. According to UNHCR, since 2002 some 500,000 other Burundian refugees in Tanzania have preferred to return home.

    Less than 40,000 Burundian refugees still awaiting repatriation, said the Ministry of National Solidarity, Repatriation, Reintegration of refugees and internally displaced.

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