By Lisa Schlein ,
moncler Geneva
08 August 2009
A refugee Burundian woman peers out of the skylight of her bus at the Mtabila camp in western Tanzania (File)The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees says it welcomes the
Tanzanian government's decision Tuesday to grant citizenship to
thousands of Burundian refugees. The UNHCR says this operation will help
to determination one of the world's most enduring refugee problems.
Some
162,000 Burundians, who have been alive as refugees in Tanzanian
accommodations for more than three decades,
abercrombie paris, adopted the government's offer
to apply for citizenship.
U.N. refugee talker,
abercrombie, Andrej
Mahecic,
louboutin, says the government of Tanzania granted citizenship August 4
to a first group of 3,568 Burundian refugees.
"The determination
marks a important landmark in a procedure namely will bring to a close 1 of
the world's most protracted refugee situations," he said. "It likewise
represents the first time that anybody nation in Africa has naturalized
refugees on such a scale."
In 1972,
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fled to Tanzania to flee violence in their country. Early final year,
the Tanzanian government gave these refugees a alternative to both return
home or to apply for Tanzanian citizenship.
Mahecic says the
UNHCR saw this for one opportunity no to be missed. He says the UNHCR
advocated on behalf of the refugees with the administrations of Tanzania
and Burundi and attempted to cater actual assistance either to those
who decided to return family and to those who opted to stay in Tanzania.
"So,
some 162,000 of the native case load decided to reside and applied for
naturalization,
abercrombie and fitch paris," said Mahecic. "The final breakthrough basically came
above Tuesday when the Tanzanian Minister of Home Affairs acknowledged
citizenship apt the first group of applicants."
"Out of 3,
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individuals,
abercrombie, merely 2 were rejected. At the same time, the Tanzanian
government reaffirmed its commitment to finalize the processing of the
remaining population before the end of the year," he added.
In
the meanwhile,
louboutin pas cher, Mahecic says the UNHCR has helped to return 45,
moncler,000
Burundian refugees who decided they wanted to go behind to the homes they
fled decades ago. He says the agency ambition facilitate different 9 thousand
refugees to return in the coming months.
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