BBC NEWS | Africa | Burundi's born-again ex-rebel leader

Sorry, this site has been a bit neglected - 300 hits?! who are you all?!
Anyway, I shall be making more effort to keep this up to date with developments in Burundi. Of which there have been many since we were at the refugee camps.

Main change has been the new president, Pierre Nkurunziza, who has been making a few pronouncements such as 'free primary education', 'no to government Toyota Landcruisers'.
However he does have an enourmous job to do.

Reuters AlertNet - IN FOCUS: Hope and fear as Burundi's exiles come home

“I didn’t want to come back until there had been a change of government,” said Buchumi Cezarie, 30, a mother-of-four who fled ethnic violence in the northern Giteranyi region in 1996.

She was speaking at a U.N.-run transit camp in Mugano in Burundi’s northeastern Muyinga province, after registering for an identity card that will guarantee her family a three-month “starter kit” containing food, pots and pans, plastic sheeting and other supplies to help them resettle.

“I hope we’ll be able to grow something to eat,” Cezarie said. “I don’t know if my old house will still be there or not.”

It is of course good news that so many refugees now feel that they are able to return to Burundi, but it will be a big challenge for the country to peacefully repatriate the returnees.