Income-generating projects have slowed down in Burundi since the fighting in eastern DRC escalated last February.

Burundi troops -- allies of Kinshasa -- were still deploying Tuesday in east DR Congo, as the UK announced it was suspending ...

M23 fighters were quickly approaching the town of Uvira which sits on the northwestern tip of Lake Tanganyika, opposite Bujumbura, the capital economic of Burundi. Burundi fighters were moving north ...

South Kivu’s provincial capital Bukavu, home to some one million and bordering Rwanda, is roughly 50 kilometres (30 miles) from Burundi. “This is the largest number of refugees that Burundi has seen ...

People are mainly arriving at the Gatumba border post, close to the capital Bujumbura, he adds. Some of these refugees are seeking asylum in Burundi to legalize their stay. Others prefer to rent ...

the capital of South Kivu province, which fell over the weekend. Burundi has had soldiers in eastern Congo for years, initially to hunt down Burundian rebels but, more recently, to support the ...

as Burundi warned Kigali it would respond if attacked. The armed group, which has gained ground against the Congolese army since it re-emerged in 2021, seized two towns on the road to Bukavu, the ...

M23 fighters were quickly approaching the town of Uvira which sits on the northwestern tip of Lake Tanganyika, opposite Bujumbura, the capital economic of Burundi. Burundi fighters were moving ...

the capital of South Kivu province. That has brought them only around 50 kilometres from the border with Burundi, which has sent more than 10 000 troops to help the Congolese army since October 2023 ...

the capital of South Kivu province, which fell over the weekend. It was the rebels' most significant prize since they seized Goma, the biggest city in eastern Congo, in late January. Burundi has ...

Burundi, which borders both DRC and Rwanda ... In Goma, the provincial capital of North Kivu that fell to the M23 at the end of January, camps on the western edge of the city emptied after ...