Burundi

Returnee Festus Ngendankazi and his daughter eat a WFP-provided meal at Musenyi transit centre in southern Burundi, before heading to his native village.

Copyright: WFP/Michel Rwamo

Burundi: WFP Food Helps Returnees from Tanzania Restart Lives

After nearly two decades spent in exile in Tanzania, thousands of Burundian refugees are finally returning home. WFP food is helping them make the transition and restart lives uprooted by civil war in Burundi in the 1990s.

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Overview

Fifteen years of civil war since 1993, combined with extreme poverty, a fragile political process and recurrent climatic shocks, have had a strongly negative impact on Burundi’s economic and nutrition indicators. Only 28 percent of the population is food-secure and as many as 58 percent are chronically malnourished. Food security for the majority of Burundians has not improved in recent years, despite a gradual return to peace.

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Country at a glance 2013
Planned Beneficiaries812,455
Beneficiary needs (mt)15,527
Beneficiary needs ($US)16,162,049
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