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Burundi Key Message Update May 2021
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Favorable climatic conditions characterised by above and near-average rainfall between March and May is expected to result in above-average 2021 B Season crop production from June to August at the national level. Above-average rainfall, however, led to localized flooding in April along Lake Tanganyika and the Rusizi River, destroying crops and displacing around 45,000 people in Bujumbura Rural and Rumonge provinces.
Staple food prices remained stable in April and May, the lead up to the harvest period. Maize, bean, and sweet potato prices decreased five to 10 percent between March and April 2021 but remained 10 to 25 percent higher than five-year average levels. Food prices will start to seasonally decrease from June to August, improving food access in general.
US Ambassador to Burundi visits displacement sites
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Bujumbura, 30 April 2021 - Today, Ms Melanie Harris Higgins, Ambassador of the United States to Burundi, accompanied by the International Organization for Migration (IOM), and other humanitarian partners visited the internal displacement sites of Kigaramango, Kinyinya II and Mushasha I, located in Gatumba, in the commune of Mutimbuzi (Bujumbura Rural province). Accompanying the visit were the local authorities and the National Platform for Risk Prevention and Disaster Management.
Ms Melanie Harris Higgins was able to witness the living conditions of internally displaced persons in these sites, which have been set up as relief shelters for those most affected by the devastating floods, affecting up to 50,000 people, since 2020.
Recent flooding from the rising waters of
Lake Tanganyika at the port of Bujumbura in Burundi has affected 8,000 families with around 2000 people displaced in lakeside communities including Bugarama, Kanyenkoko, Muhuta, Nyanza-Lac, Gatumba, Rukaramu, Kibenga, Gisyo and Kabondo in the province of Bujumbura Rural, roughly 12 km outside the city.
The details come from an April 25 report by The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA). And it appears that the number of people affected could most probably rise as flooded houses continue to collapse.
The lake s levels have been slowly rising since February 2021 and stood at 776.45 metres above sea level as of April 19 as on that night, torrential rains caused the banks of the Ruzizi River to overflow.