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TANZANIA / BURUNDI REFUGEES
STORY: TANZANIA / BURUNDI REFUGEES
TRT: 2:51
SOURCE: UNHCR
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: KIRUNDI/ENGLISH/NATS
DATELINE: 03-05 NOVEMBER 2015, KASULU AND KIBONDO, TANZANIA
1 Wide shot, refugees carrying their belongings into a bus at Nyarugusu camp
2. Med shot, refugees registering for move to new camp at Nyarugusu camp
3. Med shot, International Organization for Migration (IOM) staff registering refugees before they travel
4. Close-up, woman carrying her baby as she waits in line
5. Wide shot, refugee and IOM staffer cataloguing luggage
6. Med shot, IOM staffer cataloguing luggage
7. Wide shot, refugees loading luggage onto UNHCR truck
8. Wide shot, tracking shot of women loading their belonging unto the UNHCR truck
9. Wide shot, Burundian refugees waiting in line to board the buses
10. Wide shot behind fence of family waiting to board buses
11. Med shot, Godriva Niyoyitingira and husband Nestor Kamaza waiting in line
12. Wide shot, Nestor and family taking their bags to the bus
13. SOUNDBITE (Kirundi) Nestor Kamza, Burundi refugee:
“The hard part was our trip to the Tanzania border. We fell into the hands of thieves. They just came up to us and grabbed our belongings. They had no shame.”
14. Wide shot, buses as the refugees board
15. Med shot, Godriva, Irene and Eliphace on bus
16. Close-up, of bus driver shifting gears
17. Med Shot, bus driver driving
18. Med shot, Godriva watching TV
19. SOUNDBITE (Kirundi) Godriva Kamza, Burundi refugee:
“I was actually excited because we were already tired of what was going on in our place. In fact, I was dreaming about how peaceful it would be in Tanzania.”
20. Wide shot, aerial shot of Nyarugusu camp
21. Med shot, aerial shot of Nyarugusu
22. Wide shot, refugees walking on a road at Nyarugusu camp
23. Wide shot, Nduta refugee camp
24. Wide shot, man walking through the camp
25. Wide shot, refugees boarding bus at Nyarugusu camp.
26. SOUNDBITE (English) Mariame Kokar, UNHCR staff:
“The facilities there were just non-existent and so we are trying to ramp up the facilities there at the same time as we’re relocating individuals.”
27. Med shot, refugee children on the bus watching TV
28. Wide shot, road from bus front window
29. Med shot, Nestor exits bus
30. Wide shot, Nestor picking his bags from the bus at Ndutu camp
31. Med shot, Godriva and family being registered at the new camp
32. Wide shot, Nestor and family walking to their tent
33. Wide shot, Nestor and family arranging their belonging inside their tent
Since late April of 2015, nearly 220,000 people have fled political violence in Burundi seeking safety in neighbouring countries. More than half of the refugees have fled to Tanzania.
Because the number of Burundi’s fleeing to Tanzania is so great, the Nyarugusu camp has been overwhelmed. At the height of the conflict, Nyarugusu housed more than 160,000 Burundian and Congolese refugees becoming one of the largest and most overcrowded refugee camps in the world. To alleviate the pressure, UNHCR and its partners have planned to open three new camps and have started moving tens of thousands of Burundian refugees to a new, less congested home.
Nestor Kamza used to fix broken bicycles in Burundi, and helped Godriva, his wife, farm their small plot of land but as political troubles and killings mounted he decided to flee. In search of safety, he and his family walked non-stop for 24-hours until they reached Tanzania. 31 year-old Nestor Kamanza, his Godriva and the children are headed to a less congested camp.
Nestor Kamanza explained, “The hard part was our trip to the Tanzania border. We fell into the hands of thieves. They just came up to us and grabbed our belongings. They had no shame.”
Godriva has fled to Tanzania twice before. This time, when her husband said they should leave, she didn’t hesitate. She said, “I was actually excited because we were already tired of what was going on in our place. In fact, I was dreaming about how peaceful it would be in Tanzania.”
To relieve the pressure of an overcrowded Nyarugusu camp, a new camp has been opened at a place called Nduta. It’s housed Burundian refugees before, but in recent years had been shut down. The latest wave of violence has forced the camp to reopen.
But the move is happening during the rainy season and more refugees are expected to arrive. Meeting their needs quickly is a challenge.
UNHRC staff member Mariame Kokar said, “The facilities there were just non-existent. So we are trying to ramp up the facilities there at the same time we are relocating individuals.”
Nestor, Godriva and the children are given a single-family tent in the new camp. It’s the first time they’ve had privacy as a family since they left Burundi more than 6 months ago.
Nestor’s family is among more than 100,000 people who have fled from political violence in Burundi and arrived in the Nyarugusu camp which has almost tripled in size. To alleviate overcrowding in the camp, UNHCR and its partners have planned to open three new camps and have started moving tens of thousands of Burundian refugees to a new, less congested home.
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