The United Republic of Tanzania has hosted refugees from Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo since the early 1990s. Many Burundian refugees have returned; those who remain are apprehensive about conditions in Burundi such as land availability. Most Congolese refugees come from South Kivu, where insecurity remains a concern.
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The breathtaking beauty of Tanzania makes it easy to forget that this East African country is categorised as a least developed and low-income food deficit country with more than 40 percent of the population living in chronic food-deficit regions, where irregular rainfall causes recurring food shortages.
Poverty remains widespread, and recent figures i...