Clay huts in the Refugee Camp Kigeme near Gikongoro, Rwanda, Africa - The camp is located in Nyamagabe district of the southern province, about 150 Km from Kigali and 120 km from the Bukavu border. The camp was established in 2012 to host refugees who fled fierce fighting between FARDC soldiers and the M23 rebels. That camp originally hosted some 2,100 Burundian refugees until May 2009. The Government of Rwanda re-opened and expanded it in June 2012 in order to host thousands of refugees who had been temporally received in Nkamira transit center in Rubavu near the borders of Rwanda
Kigeme refugee camp is located in Nyamagabe district of the southern province, about 150 Km from Kigali and 120 km from the Bukavu border. This camp was established in 2012 to host refugees who fled fierce fighting between FARDC soldiers and the M23 rebels. That camp originally hosted some 2,100 Burundian refugees until May 2009. The Government of Rwanda re-opened and expanded it in June 2012 in order to host thousands of refugees who had been temporally received in Nkamira transit center in Rubavu near the borders of Rwanda-Goma.
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