Burundi Refugees Call For Deal To Allow Them Home After Nkurunziza’s Death
By Our Reporter
Several
Burundian refugees who fled their country as a result of political persecution
during fallen president Pierre Nkurunziza’s regime have called upon the current
government to allow them return home.
A letter
written by a group of Burundian refugees living in a camp in Rwanda asks their
president to cooperate with Rwanda and the United Nations refugee agency,
UNHCR, to repatriate them. However, there is not yet an agreement between the
two countries and the UNHCR on how to carry it out.
More than
60,000 Burundian refugees have been living in Mahama camp, in eastern Rwanda,
since the 2015 political crisis over the late former President Nkurunziza's bid
for a third term.
More than
300 Mahama residents signed the letter to their president accusing some exiled...