Eastern and Central Africa: No light at the end of tunnel for refugees

More than 400 000 Congolese are still living in nearby countries as refugees. Northern Uganda has been ravaged by a nearly 20-year insurgency and conflict has rent Burundi and Rwanda. According to recent UN statistics, 90 percent of about 13 million people displaced within their own country by warfare, violence or natural catastrophes reside in eastern and central Africa - six million in Sudan, three million in DRC, two million in northern Uganda and 117 000 in Burundi.