Burundi/Tanzania: Refugee numbers in Tanzanian camps at six-year low, UNHCR

The number of Burundian refugees living in camps in western Tanzania has fallen to a six-year low, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) reported on Tuesday from Geneva. UNHCR spokesman Ron Redmond said more than 40,000 refugees had returned to Burundi since the beginning of the year, bringing the number of those remaining in the camps to less than 300,000. He said UNHCR convoys carried most of the refugees who returned this year through two major border crossings in Burundi's eastern province of Ruyigi.