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At least 25 000 Burundian refugees living in Tanzania have been forcibly repatriated over the past month, a UN official said on Thursday.
According to news24, Close to a million refugees fled from Burundi to stable Tanzania when civil war broke out in 1993, and most returned voluntarily after the conflict in their country ended in 2006.
Tanzania tired of playing host to the refugees, now views them as illegal immigrants.
"It's difficult to estimate exactly the number of Burundians already expelled from Tanzania, but there are at least 20 000 over the past month and probably between 20 000 and 30 000," Catherine Huck of the UN high commissioner for refugees (UNHCR) told AFP.
She said trucks carrying hundreds of refugees were crossing the border each day, with many of those expelled without access to shelter or water.
The Burundian government is expected to organise convoys to take the expelled persons back to their villages.
