Eli Kashindi was finally beginning to feel she had found peace, 20 years after she and her family fled the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Then this year, wind whipped through Nyarugusu refugee camp ...

NYARUGUSU REFUGEE CAMP, Tanzania, April 3 (UNHCR) - Inside a dark youth centre in the heart of Nyarugusu Refugee Camp, a tall, slim woman rises proudly from her plastic chair and introduces herself.

Nyarugusu Refugee Camp in Northwestern Tanzania was established in 1996, when civil war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) forced people to flee their homes, often with little more than the ...

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 ...

In 1996 violent conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo forced people to flee their homes, often with little more than the clothes on their backs. Many crossed Lake Tanganika into Tanzania and ...

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 ...

To connect with families and friends in Burundi, Michel Ntirabampa uses the Red Cross free phone call service to contact them. He has been living in the Nyarugusu refugee camp in the Kigoma region of ...

Kasulu, Tanzania – Ilunga Malea Shabani, 26, says he does not recall his journey to Tanzania well. It was some time in 1997 when major fighting broke out in South Kivu province in the Democratic ...

About 355,000 refugees from Burundi and DR Congo live in western Tanzania, where they are barred from working or setting foot outside their makeshift camps. The conditions are "miserable," as Prosper ...