The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Sadako Ogata, will today Monday visit refugee camps in western Tanzania.

The camps are Mrs Ogata's first stop on ten-day tour of the Great Lakes region and southern Africa.

A BBC regional correspondent says large numbers of Burundians fleeing the civil war continue to arrive in Tanzania -- more than ten-thousand people this month alone, bringing to three-hundred thousand the total number of Burundian refugees in Tanzania.

Our correspondent says the refugees accuse both government troops and rebels of burning villages in Burundi.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service