President Pierre Nkurunziza Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/president-pierre-nkurunziza/ The low down on African affairs Tue, 27 Aug 2019 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 President Pierre Nkurunziza Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/president-pierre-nkurunziza/ 32 32 Tanzania warns it will forcibly repatriate Burundian refugees https://jjcornish.com/2019/08/tanzania-warns-it-will-forcibly-repatriate-burundian-refugees/ Tue, 27 Aug 2019 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2019/08/tanzania-warns-it-will-forcibly-repatriate-burundian-refugees/ Tanzania warns it will forcibly repatriate nearly a quarter of million Burundian refugees if they have not gone home by the end of this month. This despite a plea by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees for Tanzania to respect international conventions on the rights of those seeking shelter. The Burundians fled into Uganda […]

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]]> Tanzania warns it will forcibly repatriate nearly a quarter of million Burundian refugees if they have not gone home by the end of this month.

This despite a plea by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees for Tanzania to respect international conventions on the rights of those seeking shelter.

The Burundians fled into Uganda in 2015 because of violence following President Pierre Nkurunziza contesting an unconstitutional third term in office.

Tanzania’s Home Affairs Minister Kangi Lugola says there is now peace in Burundi.

He’s brought his Burundia counterpart Pascal Barandagiye to warn the refugees in the camps in southwest Tanzania to come home.

Tanzania maintains the UNHCR is not meeting the agreement reached last year to return 2000 refugees a month to Burundi    

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