37 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.

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