AFPBurundi has sent an additional battalion to support the Congolese army against the M23 armed group and Rwandan troops in eastern DR Congo, a security source told AFP on Friday.The M23 has seized ...

The seizure by M23 rebels of vast tracts of land in the mineral-rich east of the Democratic Republic of Congo has triggered 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 ...

In contrast, relatively little has been said about Burundi’s potential withdrawal of its soldiers from Somalia over a dispute about troop numbers. Burundi had suggested contributing 3 000 of AUSSOM’s ...

Burundi and Rwanda are embroiled in escalating tensions in eastern Congo, as Rwanda-backed M23 rebels advance. Burundi, ...

M23 now controls nearly all of North Kivu and the province’s vast mineral wealth—including tin (cassiterite), tantalum ...

Illustrating the complicated nature of the conflict, Burundi itself has at least 10,000 soldiers in the east of DR Congo, a ...

BUJUMBURA, Jan. 17 (Xinhua) -- Burundi on Thursday denied reports of probable heavy losses of its soldiers in recent fighting against M23 rebels in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

In contrast, relatively little has been said about Burundi's potential withdrawal of its soldiers from Somalia over a dispute about troop numbers. Burundi had suggested contributing 3 000 of ...

Illustrating the complicated nature of the 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 ...