http://www.wfp.org/feeds/Burundi Country content en http://www.wfp.org/photos/gallery/former-burundian-refugees-coming-home-tanzania Around 35,000 former refugees are returning home to Burundi after spending nearly two decades in Tanzania. Their homecoming comes after Tanzanian authorities ordered the closure of the last Burundian refugee camp, Mtabila, by the end of 2012. Burundi Local General Food Distribution Mon, 03 Dec 2012 12:09:32 +0000 WFP 357940 at http://www.wfp.org http://www.wfp.org/stories/burundi-wfp-food-helps-returnees-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. PRRO Responding to Emergencies Burundi Local Africa General Food Distribution Mon, 03 Dec 2012 07:28:14 +0000 Michel Rwamo 357770 at http://www.wfp.org http://www.wfp.org/news/news-release/communiqu%C3%A9-de-presse-loccasion-de-la-journ%C3%A9e-mondiale-de-lalimentation-le-pam-soul Le 16 octobre 2012, le PAM-Burundi s’est joint au reste du monde pour célébrer la Journée Mondiale dédiée à l’alimentation. A cette occasion, il a sorti un communiqué de presse dans lequel il réaffirme son engagement à continuer à apporter un appui aux personnes les plus vulnérables à l’insécurité alimentaire, à des fins aussi bien humanitaires que de développement. ED - E.Cousin Fight Against HIV/AIDS Nutrition Burundi Local Africa HIV/AIDS Nutrition Tue, 16 Oct 2012 06:36:57 +0000 WFP 326648 at http://www.wfp.org http://www.wfp.org/stories/returnee-familly-without-reference-or-land-burundi-resettles-motherland Some of the Burundian refugees whose families fled the country in 1972 do not know where in Burundi they came from. When they repatriate, they are hosted in integrated rural villages set up by the government where they begin a new life from scratch. WFP provides food assistance to help them get a good start. Elysée Mbonye is one of them. PRRO Preventing Hunger Burundi Local Africa General Food Distribution Fri, 25 May 2012 06:46:11 +0000 Michel Rwamo 248506 at http://www.wfp.org http://www.wfp.org/content/burundi-government-boost-agriculture-budget-renouveau-says Burundi’s government plans to increase its agriculture budget to boost food production in the East African nation, Renouveau reported, citing Gervais Rufyikiri, the second vice president. Hunger in the news Burundi hunger in the news Africa Bloomberg Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:45:59 +0000 WFP 158138 at http://www.wfp.org http://www.wfp.org/photos/gallery/food-work-activities-rural-burundi Food-for-work activities in Bugundana Rural Burundi. Burundi Burundi food-for-work hunger maize WFP Local Capacity Development Mon, 18 Jul 2011 14:16:58 +0000 WFP 44190 at http://www.wfp.org http://www.wfp.org/photos/gallery/food-work-activities-rural-burundi Food-for-work activities in Bugundana Rural Burundi. Burundi Burundi food-for-work hunger maize WFP Local Capacity Development Mon, 18 Jul 2011 14:16:58 +0000 WFP 44190 at http://www.wfp.org http://www.wfp.org/content/wimbledon-who-hassan-ndayishimiye You say you’ve never heard of Burundi? (..) One of the world poorest countries, approximately 80% of the Burundi population lives in poverty. According to the World Food Program, 56% of children under age five suffer from chronic malnutrition. Hunger in the news Burundi hunger in the news Africa Tennis Grandstand Wed, 29 Jun 2011 15:00:04 +0000 WFP 33168 at http://www.wfp.org http://www.wfp.org/stories/born-refugees-congolese-children-raised-burundian-refugee-camps More than 810 children have been born in Burundian refugee camps since 2010. WFP supplies much needed food assistance to these children as well as to 20,000 Congolese refugees who have sought asylum in Burundi.   PRRO Preventing Hunger Burundi Local Africa Emergencies Fri, 13 May 2011 09:24:06 +0000 Marc Neilson 31976 at http://www.wfp.org http://www.wfp.org/content/burundi-thousands-need-food-aid-after-poor-crop-season Heavy rains in March in Burundi's eastern province of Ruyigi destroyed beans, banana and cassava crops, leaving thousands of people desperate for food aid, agricultural officials said. (..) In its April issue, the monthly bulletin of the Burundi Food Security Monitoring Early Warning System said throughout March 2011, countrywide, the UN World Food Programme assisted 244,531 beneficiaries with 1,626MT of food, mainly through general food distribution, food-for-work, as well as aid for the most vulnerable. Burundi hunger in the news Africa Reuters Alertnet Thu, 28 Apr 2011 14:53:23 +0000 WFP 31752 at http://www.wfp.org