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BURUNDI: Fatal chicken disease a blow to food security

Foodsecurity in Burundi’s Kayanza province is under threat because of anuntreatable disease that has killed more than 1,000 chickens in onecommune, according to a senior official. "The disease has alsobeen reported in other parts of the country but total numbers of deadchickens are not [yet] available," the director of the Animal HealthDepartment in the Ministry of Agriculture and Stockbreeding, PierreBukuru, told IRIN. "With the pandemic among the chickens, thepopulation will face a...

BURUNDI-TANZANIA: Thousands of refugees still awaiting repatriation

At least 120,000 Burundian refugees have still to be repatriated from Tanzania, despite plans by the host government to close all refugee camps by mid-2008, officials said. More than 40,000 Burundians returned home from Tanzania in 2007, home affairs minister Joseph Mungai told a meeting on 3 December in the Burundian capital of Bujumbura. The latest returns, the Tanzanian minister added, brought to 430,000 the total since 2001. The Burundian minister for repatriation, Immaculée Nahayo, said...

BURUNDI: Poverty strategy to focus on food production

Burundi is to boost food production, private sector growth, education, health and energy availability as part of a four-year poverty reduction strategy, President Pierre Nkurunziza announced. Launching a US$1.320 billion appeal to donors to fund the 2007-2010 poverty reduction strategy paper (PRSP) on 24 May, Nkurunziza said his governments plans would boost development in a country that had only recently emerged from conflict. The donor meeting being held in the capital, Bujumbura, he added,...