Business executives to visit UNHCR's camps in Tanzania

Executives from five of the world's leading corporations will visit Tanzania on a fact-finding trip about the United Nation's refugee rescue work in the east African country, according to reports reaching Dar Es Salaam on Monday.

Wendy Chamberlin, deputy high commissioner of Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), will be traveling with the business executives from Manpower, Nike, Merck, Microsoft and Pricewaterhouse Coopers to camps in northwestern Tanzania that has been accommodating refugees from neighboring Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

There are some 400,000 refugees in the camps, mainly from the Congo and Burundi.

The aim of the inspection tour, according to a Geneva-based UN spokesperson, is to give business leaders an opportunity to learn more about UNHCR's work in east Africa and the Great Lakes Region.

The business executives will also visit Burundi and Kenya.

Source: Xinhua