Our current plans are for Kigoma only, at Lugufu where a former refugee camp has been closed for some years, and at a second, smaller location near Basanza village that is currently held by Kigoma District.
As has been widely reported in the media, we have had discussions with our government about developing farms at Katumba and Mishamo in the future. We engaged in those discussions with assurances from our government that, based on agreements reached between Tanzania, Burundi and the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), the refugee camps at those locations were already in the process of being closed and the refugees resettled.
Understandably, with the camps closed, our government wanted to restore the land, which has been depleted by decades of use, to a more productive state once the refugees were resettled. However, that process has been delayed at Katumba and Mishamo and, while we have an open memorandum of understanding in place, we have suspended active development efforts for those sites until the situation is resolved.