2023-05-02
GITEGA / BELGRADO - The Burundi Balkan Route offered several thousand Burundians a way out of their homeland in crisis in 2022.
As a result of Serbian Kosovo diplomacy, an estimated 8,000 Burundians travelled to Serbia without visas. After the sudden increase in Burundian asylum applications was noticed, Europe put pressure on and Serbia closed the door.
Journalists Alain Majesté Barenga and Elien Spillebeen examined the human consequences of a series of remarkable political decisions.
Supported
€3,300 allocated on 08/12/2022ID
FPD/2022/1990Grant
ONLINE/PRINT
- Fouler l'espace Schengen à tout prix, Radop Inzamba, 23/02/2023
- Voir l'espace Schengen et mourir: Une enquête du Journaliste Alain Majesté Barenga sur l'exode de jeunes Burundais vers la Serbie, Burundi Daily, 23/02/2023
- Hoe Servische diplomatie het leven van deze Burundezen omgooide, MO*, 20/05/2023
- Op zoek naar een thuis, een zoon, geluk tout court, MO*, 09/05/2023
COUNTRY
- Burundi
- Serbia
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