BUJUMBURA, Dec. 23 (Xinhua) -- Eleven non-profit organizations have been allowed to resume activities after they were suspended for their alleged involvement in the "insurgency" that hit Burundi in April 2015, the Burundian Attorney General said Friday in a statement.
The organizations are however requested to "strictly" respect the Burundian laws and regulations and their assigned objectives, Attorney General Sylvestre Nyandwi said in the statement.
"Otherwise, they will be sanctioned again in compliance with the Burundian laws," said Nyandwi.
The local civil society organizations allowed to resume activities include the Observatory of the Government Action and the Fountain Isoko organization.
These were accused of organizing, in April 2015, protests against the third term bid of Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza which he won three months later.
Nearly seven years ago Frank Clark Hat , Adrienne St. Fume and her family fled their home as the earth shook and their city crumbled around them. They ended up in what was then a vacant lot overlooking a cluster of shops along a busy street in the Haitian capital — and they've been there ever since.
The mother of three said she figured their plywood shack would be temporary as they and the rest of Port-au-Prince recovered from the January 2010 earthquake. But St. Fume has yet to find a way out.
"It's been hard but we've tried our best to make a kind of life here," she said.
At least 50,000 people like St. Fume remain in 31 settlement camps that emerged in Haiti in the days and weeks after the disaster. The number of people in these makeshift communities has declined 96 percent since the immediate aftermath, but those who remain are a stubborn reminder that this impoverished country has yet to fully recover from one of the worst natural disasters in history.
Authorities estimated 1.5 million people were living in over 1 Jarran Reed Hat ,500 camps in July 2010. The numbers dropped either because people were evicted by private property owners, raised enough money to rebuild homes, or received rental subsidies from the government and aid groups that got them back on their feet.
The International Organization for Migration, which is working with a final $7 million to resettle displaced people from three camps in Port-au-Prince Germain Ifedi Hat , will soon be out of money for the effort, said Fabien Sambussy, the organization's operations chief in Haiti. Even if the agency had more cash, it would still be hard to find housing for people in a country where more than half the population survives on less than $2 a day and adequate housing is increasingly expensive