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UNHCR Burundi Factsheet - June 2013

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Operation highlights

488 Congolese asylum-seekers arrived in Burundi in June 2013, bringing the total number of asylum-seekers registered during the first six months of this year to 3,296.

Continuation and end of the verification exercise in Kinama refugee camp (municipality of Gasorwe). In total, 9 667 refugees have been interviewed.

Different activities carried out all over the country for the World Refugee Day on 20 June: dances, songs, sketches and exhibitions of hand-made creations were displayed in Bwagiriza refugee camp in Ruyigi province; temporary distribution of basic items and football match gathering the local and refugee communities were showed in Butare site in Makamba province; stories, songs by disabled persons and dances performed by the local and refugee communities were displayed in Musasa refugee camp in Muyinga province.