Burundi: Sharp drop in number of displaced persons

The number of people in Burundi's camps for the displaced dropped by half between 2002 and 2004, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in a preliminary report completed on Monday. The results of the survey, conducted between 10 March and 7 April, from which OCHA's report was produced, shows that the number of the displaced dropped from 281,000 in 2002 to 140,000 today. The survey was conducted with the Ministry for the Rehabilitation and Reintegration of Displaced and Repatriated Persons, as well as the National Commission for the Rehabilitation of Disaster-affected People.