More than 2,500 Burundian asylum seekers in Rwanda will be repatriated to their home country starting from Sunday, Rwanda's Ministry of Disaster Management and Refugees affairs said Saturday.
The Burundian asylum seekers who crossed into Rwanda from a refugee camp in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DR Congo) will leave Rwanda Sunday after they refused any form of registration due to their religious beliefs, said the ministry in a statement.
The asylum seekers left the Kamanyola refugee camp in DR Congo on March 7, seeking refuge in Rwanda amid fears that they could be forcibly repatriated back home by Congolese authorities, according to the ministry.
They were received in Rwanda and sent to three transit centers, it said.
SOURCE: Xinhua
