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UNHCR renewed its concern in a statement issued on Tuesday over the unstable situation in Burundi, which continues to drive people to seek safety in neighboring countries.
""UNHCR has updated its funding needs for the Burundi situation to 250 million U.S dollars from 214 million dollars,"" said the statement.
""Resources are badly needed to provide emergency assistance to the new arrivals and proper support to their hosts. UNHCR has so far received only 2 percent of the required funds,"" it said.
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The refugee population is expected to increase by 26 percent by the end of 2017, according to the UNHCR.
The UNHCR said in the DRC, Rwanda and Tanzania, refugee camps have reached or are close to their maximum capacity. The situation in Tanzania's Nduta camp is particularly alarming.
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Arrivals data from the Rwandan Ministry of Disaster Management and Refugee Affairs indicates that 84,597 Burundians have crossed into Rwanda since the Burundi crisis in April 2015.
Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Seraphine Mukantabana, Rwanda's Minister for Disaster Management and Refugee Affairs, said that Burundian refugees continue to cross over to Rwanda despite the overcrowding of refugee camps.
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Mahama camp in Kirehe District, Eastern Rwanda, the biggest Burundian refugee camp in Rwanda, accommodates 53,490 refugees, according to the Rwandan ministry.
Burundi plunged into a crisis in April 2015 when Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza decided to run his controversial third term. More than 500 people in Burundi have been killed since the start of the crisis.
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Baidu's World Cup prediction service has outscored its major competitors by accurately predicting winners 58.3 percent of the time, compared with runnerup Microsoft Bing's 56.2 percent.
The Beijing-based company not only correctly chose the four semifinalists, it also predicted that Germany would win its match with Brazil, though it didn't foresee the 7-1 score.
Baidu said that its World Cup prediction model is based on data from as many as 37,000 matches played by 987 teams over the past five years.
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Generally speaking, tech companies outperformed Wall Street investors. Baidu and Microsoft both correctly chose the four teams in the semifinals. Goldman Sachs erred in picking Spain to reach the final four, while Deutsche Bank even predicted that England would win the tournament.
Bryan Wang, principal analyst with Forrester Research, a multinational technology and market research firm, said that as a company that processes search requests every day, Baidu enjoys an edge in big data-based prediction.
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Recent media reports said that a soccer-loving girl in Northeast China won more than 3.3 million yuan ($528,000) from betting on the 2014 World Cup and her secret weapon was Baidu's World Cup predictions.
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