No food, no shelter, no blankets: inside Burundi’s fast-growing refugee camps – in pictures

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A view of tents pitched on muddy soil, trees and people walking around

Since early 2025, clashes have intensified in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), displacing hundreds of thousands of people across the region. Tens of thousands have fled to Burundi, one of the world’s poorest countries, where more than 80,000 Congolese refugees are seeking safety in overcrowded camps such as Busuma and Musenyi

Seeking shelter from conflict, Congolese communities have been displaced to camps in Burundi such as Busuma

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Photographs by Hugh Kinsella Cunningham

Thu 23 Apr 2026 15.00 CEST

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