Na:TAVIA Network -The African Voice In America 200000 Burundian Refugees to Receive Citizenship in Tanzania
Tanzanian authorities on Tuesday, October 14th, 2014, announced they
will be granting citizenship to about 200,000 refugees from Burundi in a
ceremony that will be presided over by president Jakaya Kikwete.
Since the civil war in 1972 that spurred out of the premise of ethnic
cleansing, thousands of Burundians have been displaced. The country has
gone through two genocides. The first occurred when the Tutsi dominated
military regime in 1972 responded brutally to attacks on Tutsi’s by the
Burundi Workers' Party (UBU), an all Hutu organization that was set on
annihilating Tutsi’s. During the second, Hutus in both Rwanda and
Burundi sought to completely do away with their Tutsi neighbors. The
death toll was in tens of thousands.
Burundi is one of the poorest countries in the world and according to
the Global Hunger index (GHI), it is perhaps the most hungry nation on
earth with its index over 35. The 13 year civil war that lasted until
2006 seems to have taken a toll.
200,000 people returning to
Burundi will be a disaster. Some of the people will not even know where
to go if they should leave Tanzania as president Kikwete noted in his
broadcast to the Tanzanian people.
The event which will be held
on the anniversary of Julius Nyerere’s, one of the key figures to fight
for Tanzania’s independence, death, will grant citizenship to about
162,000 registered Burundian refugees and their offsprings, many of whom
reside in United Nation camps in the towns of Tabora and Katavi. As
told by Tanzania’s Home Affairs Minister Mathias Chikawe to AFP, “Those
to be granted citizenship are refugees who have stayed in Tanzania since
1972 and have voluntarily opted to stay in the country."
United
Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is in support of this
process. This humanitarian move is a credit to Tanzania who in recent
years has been taking good economic measures to help growth.
Tanzanian authorities on Tuesday, October 14th, 2014, announced they will be granting citizenship to about 200,000 refugees from Burundi in a ceremony that will be presided over by president Jakaya Kikwete. Since the civil war in 1972 that spurred out of the premise of ethnic cleansing, thousands of Burundians have been displaced. The country has gone through two genocides. The first occurred when the Tutsi dominated military regime in 1972 responded brutally to attacks on Tutsi’s by the Burundi Workers' Party (UBU), an all Hutu organization that was set on annihilating Tutsi’s. During the second, Hutus in both Rwanda and Burundi sought to completely do away with their Tutsi neighbors. The death toll was in tens of thousands.
Burundi is one of the poorest countries in the world and according to
the Global Hunger index (GHI), it is perhaps the most hungry nation on
earth with its index over 35. The 13 year civil war that lasted until
2006 seems to have taken a toll.
200,000 people returning to Burundi will be a disaster. Some of the people will not even know where to go if they should leave Tanzania as president Kikwete noted in his broadcast to the Tanzanian people.
The event which will be held on the anniversary of Julius Nyerere’s, one of the key figures to fight for Tanzania’s independence, death, will grant citizenship to about 162,000 registered Burundian refugees and their offsprings, many of whom reside in United Nation camps in the towns of Tabora and Katavi. As told by Tanzania’s Home Affairs Minister Mathias Chikawe to AFP, “Those to be granted citizenship are refugees who have stayed in Tanzania since 1972 and have voluntarily opted to stay in the country."
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is in support of this process. This humanitarian move is a credit to Tanzania who in recent years has been taking good economic measures to help growth.
200,000 people returning to Burundi will be a disaster. Some of the people will not even know where to go if they should leave Tanzania as president Kikwete noted in his broadcast to the Tanzanian people.
The event which will be held on the anniversary of Julius Nyerere’s, one of the key figures to fight for Tanzania’s independence, death, will grant citizenship to about 162,000 registered Burundian refugees and their offsprings, many of whom reside in United Nation camps in the towns of Tabora and Katavi. As told by Tanzania’s Home Affairs Minister Mathias Chikawe to AFP, “Those to be granted citizenship are refugees who have stayed in Tanzania since 1972 and have voluntarily opted to stay in the country."
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is in support of this process. This humanitarian move is a credit to Tanzania who in recent years has been taking good economic measures to help growth.
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