The aid response in Burundi to the crisis in neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) "is literally buckling", the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, warned on Friday, as it relayed dramatic ...

By Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA (Reuters) -Conflict in Congo has sent 63,000 refugees fleeing to neighbouring Burundi in its ...

Rwanda and Burundi. At this stage, the U.N. doesn’t know the M23 agenda, the intention of its backers or how far they will go and why, said Huang, the Great Lakes U.N. envoy. “This situation ...

Since January, however, the rapid conquest and occupation of a huge area of the Democratic Republic of Congo by Rwanda and ...

Rwanda-backed rebels have "occupied" a second major city in ... Congo's forces were being supported in Goma by troops from South Africa and in Bukavu by troops from Burundi. But Burundi's president, ...

BUKAVU, Congo (AP) — Rwanda-backed rebels reached the center of east Congo’s second largest city, Bukavu, on Sunday morning and took control of the South Kivu province administrative office after ...

On Wednesday, RwandAir said DR Congo had shut its airspace to aircraft registered in Rwanda, forcing it to re-route flights. Burundi, which borders both DRC and Rwanda, has sent around 10,000 ...

Kinshasa, its capital, is 1,500km from the provinces (South Kivu, North Kivu and Ituri) that border the other Great Lakes countries (Burundi, Rwanda and Uganda). The advance of M23, a Rwandan ...

"Being the first plastic and reconstructive surgeon in my country is a great honour," Dr. Baramburiye said. "But it's also a ...

The Rwanda Football Federation (FERWAFA) has appointed Algerian coach Adel Amrouche as the new head coach of the national ...

Keita, who also heads the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Congo, told the Security Council that since then, the M23 has kept advancing, seizing the town of Kamanyola at the intersection of three borders ...