UN EMERGENCY FUND RELEASES US$ 11 MILLION TO ASSIST BURUNDIAN REFUGEES AND HOST COMMUNITIES IN TANZANIA
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania – 1 February 2016: United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today released US$ 100 million from the UN Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) for aid operations in nine severely underfunded emergencies. Tanzania–historically a host to millions of refugees from neighbouring countries over many years–has been allocated US$ 11 million of this amount, to respond to the…