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Fleeing Burundians Wait as Old Ships Role In
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12.05.2015
When heavily pregnant Hadija Mchume saw everyone in her Burundian village packing up to flee political violence, she knew she had to join them.
Just days from her due date, the 23-year-old fled the violence that had engulfed her neighborhood equipped with gauze and a razor blade -- in case she had to give birth on the move.
She made it to Kagunga on Lake Tanganyika, where she gave birth to a healthy baby boy just hours before boarding a boat to Kigoma in western Tanzania.
Mchume was among thousands of Burundian refugees flocking to Kagunga in Tanzania to board the MV Liemba — an aging ferry hired by the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR to transport those fleeing across the lake.
More than 50,000 Burundians have fled to neighboring countries in recent weeks amid violent protests triggered by President Pierre Nkurunziza's plan to run for a third term.
Just days from her due date, the 23-year-old fled the violence that had engulfed her neighborhood equipped with gauze and a razor blade -- in case she had to give birth on the move.
She made it to Kagunga on Lake Tanganyika, where she gave birth to a healthy baby boy just hours before boarding a boat to Kigoma in western Tanzania.
Mchume was among thousands of Burundian refugees flocking to Kagunga in Tanzania to board the MV Liemba — an aging ferry hired by the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR to transport those fleeing across the lake.
More than 50,000 Burundians have fled to neighboring countries in recent weeks amid violent protests triggered by President Pierre Nkurunziza's plan to run for a third term.
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