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Burundi: How rising Lake Tanganyika triggers urgent humanitarian needs Format Children wade through their schoolyard in Gatumba zone, Bujumbura Rural province © IOM 2021/Triffin Ntore 'What are we going to do if the water does not stop rising?' That question has been on everyone's mind: Homeowners, building contractors and construction workers, farmers, market vendors, schoolchildren, commuters, and of course, development and humanitarian workers. During the past two years persistent heavy rain, followed by floods, landslides, and strong winds, has raised Lake Tanganyika to dangerous levels,...

IOM Burundi distributes rental support to displaced families in Gatumba Format Bujumbura, 5 March 2021 – Today IOM Burundi, with the Government of Burundi and partners, distributed a second wave of rental support to 237 internally displaced families residing in the largest of Burundi’s four main displacement camps, Kigaramango in Gatumba (Bujumbura Rural province). Financed by the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF), this support will allow the most vulnerable displaced groups to seek accommodation away from the sites with better conditions for three months. The Government of Burundi a...