BURUNDI: Congolese refugee crisis "under control", says UNHCR
24.10.2002
The current situation of some 11,000 refugees who have arrived in Burundi from neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) since fighting erupted in Uvira on Saturday is "under control", Stefano Severe, country representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), told IRIN last Friday.