Burundi: UN refugee agency prepares camp for thousands of asylum seekers

The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, is expanding a transit site at Musasa in northern Burundi to accommodate thousands of Rwandans seeking refuge in the country, an agency official said on Friday (January 6). Some 2,000 people have arrived in the northern provinces of Ngozi, Muyinga and Kirundo since December 2005, bringing the number of Rwandan asylum seekers in Burundi to an estimated 8,000, said Didier Bukuru, the UNHCR information officer in the capital, Bujumbura.