The United States will accept 10 000 Burundian refugees from Tanzania from now until 2008, the State Department said on Tuesday.
”At the request of the UN high commissioner for refugees, and also working in cooperation with the government of Tanzania, where these refugees have been for many years, we are planning to offer permanent resettlement to a group of Burundian refugees who’ve been in western camps in Tanzania, some of whom initially fled from Burundi back in 1972,” said Tom Casey, a department spokesperson.
”The current estimate that we have now is there’s approximately 10 000 individuals that will be in this group. And our expectation is that they would be brought to the United States over the course of the next couple of years,” Casey added. – Sapa-AFP