Burundi faces serious climate and environmental challenges. The biggest is the country's overdependence on the use of biomass ...

Security is tight as opposition groups have vowed to disrupt the 17 May vote At least 26 people were killed after armed attackers targeted a village in north-west Burundi, amid tensions ahead of a ...

As Rwanda-backed M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo push south towards the city of Bukavu, they are likely to have to fight their way through thousands of troops from Burundi, ramping ...

The lightning offensive is the latest to scar the mineral-rich region, which has seen relentless conflict involving dozens of ...

At least three schoolchildren died in a lightning strike that hit Kiziba Basic School on Thursday afternoon in Musigati district in western Burundi, a local source told Xinhua on Friday. "The total ...

Gunmen killed at least 20 people and wounded nine others near Burundi's western border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, the government told reporters Saturday, in an attack claimed by the ...

Burundi's President Evariste Ndayishimiye awaits ... The offensive is the latest to scar a region where an estimated six million people have died over three decades due to conflict.

Burundi itself has at least 10,000 soldiers in the east of the DRC, a Burundian military source told AFP. Rwanda accused Burundian troops of actively engaging in fighting against the M23. People ...