There's no place like home. And that's why few Burundians want to go back. As of mid-1999, 489,658 Burundians continued to live outside the country --457,000 in Tanzania alone --of which 200,000 constituted "old caseload" refugees who had arrived in the 1970s and have assimilated into local communities. Some 30,000 refugees remain in the DRC while the rest are spread in smaller numbers in Rwanda, Zambia, Kenya, Congo (Brazzaville), Angola, Malawi and Cameroon. By April 1999, 195,640 Burundians had returned home since 1996 (114,558 from the DRC, 75,501 from Tanzania and 5,581 from Rwanda). The provinces with the highest number of refugees still in Tanzania include Muyinga (54,585), Makamba (46,303), Ruyigi (34,030), Kirundo (28,302) and Karuzi (20,446).
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