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Since the outbreak of several conflicts in the early 1990s, the African Great Lakes-area bas had to deal with a great number of refugees of different origin. In 1994 conflict arose in Rwanda, causing a stream of over 2 million refugees to spill over the nation's borders into the (then republic of) Zaïre, Burundi and Uganda. Conflict in neighboring Zaïre, caused another stream of refugees to wash over the region. Despite new conflicts in the new Democratic Republic of Congo, the region has known some sort of stable peace since December 1999; Peacetalks are being held in Burundi and war in Rwanda is practically over. |
