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available State land. The Batwa are often integrated into these villages but the fact remains that the
Administrators do not provide land for cultivation.
But there is a flicker of hope on the horizon, for a very first peace village in GITARA situated in
MABANDA District, MAKAMBA Province has started granting households to the landless repatriates
and other vulnerable groups while distributing agricultural land with a surface area of 0.5ha.
Today the country has more than 500,289 repatriates of whom several are landless and more than
100,000 refugees who are still in exile. The following table shows clearly the repatriated persons
country by country.
14.3. Distribution of Refugees per country
Period
DRC
Rwanda
Tanzania
Others
Total
2002-2003
4,284
219
130,824
322
135,649
2004
879
151
89,039
258
90,327
2005
1,002
4,489
62,338
279
68,108
2006
1,284
615
42,765
251
44,915
2007
45
111
39,506
136
39,798
2008
6
36
94,891
135
95,068
2009
68
2,268
23,969
119
26,424
Total
7,568
7,889
483,332
1,500
500,289
More than 35,000 refugees are still in Tanzania in the Mutabira Camp.