Widespread floods triggered by the rising level of Lake Tanganyika have been affecting several towns of western Burundi since February 2021, resulting in casualties. According to the latest report of UN OCHA, 2,000 people have been displaced and 8,000 affected across several lakeside communities including Bugarama, Kan
UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, has warned that millions of displaced people in need of protection and assistance, and their host communities, are feeling the pinch of massive underfunding, as the COVID-19 crisis continues to increase humanitarian needs globally. The agency has so far received just 49 per cent (US$4.5 billion) of the $9.1 billion required…