TANZANIA CLOSES NDUTA CAMP HOUSING THOUSANDS OF BURUNDI REFUGEES. (PHOTO).

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 Tanzania closes Nduta camp housing thousands of Burundi refugees Tanzania has closed a camp housing thousands of Burundian refugees and repatriated all but a handful, activists and the United Nations said. Burundian refugees have complained in recent months of being forcibly evicted from the Nduta camp in northwestern Tanzania, following a deal between the governments in Dar Es Salaam and Bujumbura to repatriate around 100,000 of them by June. As of late 2025, there were an estimated 142,000 Burundian refugees housed in two Tanzanian camps - Nduta and Nyarugusu, according to the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR). "The approximately 3,000 refugees who remained in the (Nduta) camp were forcibly loaded onto vehicles to be sent back to Burundi on Thursday," the Coalition for Human Rights/Living in Refugee Camps (CDH/VICAR) said, AFP reported. "Only around 10 families remained on site, awaiting transfer to the Nyarugusu camp, where 198 families had already been sent foll...

ETHIOPIA SUSPENDS TIGRAY FLIGHTS AS CLASHES SPARK FEARS OF RENEWED WAR. (PHOTO).


 Ethiopia suspends Tigray flights as clashes spark fears of renewed war


Ethiopian Airlines has cancelled flights to the northern territory of Tigray, and residents were trying to withdraw cash from banks after clashes between regional and national forces raised fears of renewed conflict.


"As of today, all flights have been cancelled," the official for Ethiopia's national carrier said on Thursday, without giving a reason.


The renewed tensions risk a return to conflict in the volatile region, which around three years ago emerged from a brutal war between Ethiopian federal forces and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) that killed at least 600,000 people between November 2020 and November 2022, according to the African Union — a toll some experts say is understated.


Hostilities broke out in recent days in Tsemlet, western Tigray, an area claimed by forces from the neighbouring Amhara region who have refused to withdraw despite a peace agreement signed in Pretoria at the end of 2022 requiring them to do so.


"The situation appears to be deteriorating," a security source said.


A diplomatic source who spoke on condition of anonymity said that the Tigray forces were facing "the ENDF (Ethiopian army) alongside Amhara militias".


"The clashes were confirmed in recent days, but today we don't know the situation," the source added, TRT Afrika reported.


One resident of Mekelle, the capital of Tigray, said that on Thursday, hundreds of people started queuing up to withdraw money, but that many banks had run out of cash.


"I went to three Commercial Bank of Ethiopia branches to withdraw some money, but I was told they had no cash.... I have checked all ATMs in the town to withdraw cash, but all of them were empty," he said.

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