Tanzania

An MSF staff member assists a woman and her new baby on arrival at Nduta refugee camp. Tanzania, November 2018. © MSF/Pierre-Yves Bernard

Tanzania hosts more than half of all Burundians who fled their country after violence erupted in 2015. In 2019, they came under increasing pressure to return home.

Some 167,000 Burundians remain in Tanzania despite mounting pressure on them to leave…

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