Why Burundi Is Kicking Out Aid Groups
The African nation is one of the poorest in the world. But it's driving out some aid groups that are offering help.
For 26 years, Handicap International has not only been providing crutches, prosthetics and wheelchairs to people with disabilities in Burundi, it has also been a leading advocate for people with disabilities in the country. Much of its work has focused on helping people get physical therapy, accessible housing and jobs.
But all of that is over now.
HI has been ordered by the government to stop its work in Burundi in a dispute over ethnic quotas. The government is requiring all foreign aid groups to commit to having 60 percent of their local employees be Hutus and 40 percent) is laying off all 105 of its local employees, shutting down its operations and pulling out of the central African nation.
