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Escaping Burundi: Life in refuge

Burundians displaced by continued violence persevere in cramped and under-supplied Tanzanian refugee camps.

Please Do NOt Use/Burundian lives in refuge — John Posco, 27, was a second-year university student when he was forced to flee from Burundi. He now teaches English and art to high school students in Nyarugusu camp in Tanzania. He hopes an international effort will help resolve the crisis in Burundi. [Tendai Marima/Al Jazeera]

Nyarugusu camp, Tanzania – When Burundi’s President Pierre Nkurunziza announced he would run for re-election despite a constitutional two-term limit, unrest erupted in a nation whose history is haunted by genocide and civil war.

Assassination attempts, house raids and a failed coup have characterised the past months of crisis forcing more than 240,000 people to flee to neighbouring countries and seek refuge in Tanzania’s refugee camps. Up to 60 percent of at least 110,000 Burundian refugees who have fled to Tanzania’s refugee camps since April are children under the age of 18.

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Serious disputes over land are another dimension of the crisis. A family conflict over land drove Jacroid Muhigigwa, 27, a farmer from northeastern Muyinga province, to leave. [Tendai Marima/Al Jazeera]