Burundi/DRC: UN agency coping with Congolese refugee influx

The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Burundi has stepped up efforts to improve conditions for Congolese refugees who have fled the eastern South Kivu Province following recent fighting there, the agency reported on Tuesday. The agency said it had received its largest group of Congolese refugees in recent days, bringing to 34,000 the number of those who had fled the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) since 9 June.