The incident has heightened security concerns in the area, especially given its proximity to the refugee camp and ongoing ...

A refugee mother and child in Mtabila camp, in Kasulu, Tanzania, an hour from the spot in the northwest of the country where Bill and Igey were born. Forty thousand Burundian refugees now live in ...

Organizations working with Tanzania's remaining 36,000 Burundian refugees in the Mtabila refugee camp say many are afraid to return to Burundi because of land disputes there.

DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania, February 1 (UNHCR) - The number of refugees housed in camps in Tanzania has fallen below the 300,000 mark for the first time in more than a decade, reflecting continuing ...

Nyarugusu, where Burundians began arriving in April this year, is now the world’s third largest refugee camp. Tanzania is hosting over 110,000 Burundians within two camps, Nyarugusu and Nduta, and ...

The aid agency Oxfam says more than 70,000 refugees from Burundi have crossed the border into Tanzania fearing political violence at home. Aid agencies are seeking more support as disease and ...

Following UNHCR's initiative, the Tanzanian government has scheduled the closure of the Nduta camp for Burundian refugees in north-western Tanzania at the end of this month. We are currently in the ...

Burundian refugees who returned from a camp in Tanzania look at the flag of Burundi after arriving by bus at a transit camp in Musenyi, southern Burundi, November 14, 2012.

When Edumakono Zetho heard about a new pathway to resettle refugees in the U.S., he immediately thought of his half-sister in Tanzania. Koko Mobeto, 34, a single mother, is raising her three young ...

As refugees continue to flee violence and uncertainty in Burundi, the camps where they seek sanctuary in Tanzania are becoming increasingly stretched. Some 110,000 Burundians are already spread across ...

Kamungo, 20, was born in the Nyarugusu Refugee Camp in Tanzania, where he did not even learn to play soccer with a ball. Instead, Kamungo said he and his friends would make their own ball with ...