Today, UNHCR started the relocation of 50,000 Burundian refugees to two camps in North West Tanzania, which the government has reopened to ease the suffering of tens of thousands of people in the ...

Esperanse, 15, shows here what it is like for young girls and women to search for firewood in the forest surrounding Nyarugusu refugee camp. Many young girls and children are sent to collect firewood ...

The global refugee population topped 16.1 million in 2015, the highest number in more than two decades and larger than the populations of 120 countries, according to the United Nations. One of those ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Children at Fortunata pre-school in The Nyarugusu refugee camp, Tanzania. The International Rescue Committee EU ...

Kigoma, Tanzania – Tanzanian authorities say the camp hosting refugees who fled unrest in neighbouring Burundi is full and will have to be expanded. Isaac Nantanga, spokesperson for the Ministry of ...

More than 100 new refugees stagger off the dusty road each day, a lot of them women with children, sometimes just children. They carry the few belongings they have left. Will Furlong has watched them ...

Burundian families who fled their country wait to be registered as refugees at Nyarugusu camp in northwest Tanzania on June 11. Getty Images Tanzania's Nyarugusu refugee camp "has reached breaking ...

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The rains in East Africa have started and many parts of the region are experiencing flash floods. Nyarugusu refugee camp in Tanzania, the third largest refugee camp in the world, is home to 110,000 ...

Last year, 6,235 women and girls gave birth at Nyarugusu refugee camp. And not one of them died due to pregnancy or childbirth. “I thank the health-care workers, nurses and doctors for the ...