Rwanda-backed rebels in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have advanced southward, reaching Burundi’s border and bringing the central African region to the brink of war, the United Nations said ...

Foreigners who had been stranded during clashes between members of the Alliance Fleuve Congo AFC-M23 Movement who took over Uvira town from the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

BUJUMBURA, Burundi — Burundi is seeing its largest influx of refugees in decades as tens of thousands of people flee the fighting in neighboring eastern Congo, the U.N. World Food Program said Monday.

A just-signed agreement aimed at ending the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo looked to be unravelling Monday with the DRC and Burundi slamming neighbouring Rwanda after the Rwanda-backed ...

BUJUMBURA, Burundi, March 14 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency has closed two reception camps on Burundi's volatile border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) after moving all the Congolese ...

GENEVA (Reuters) -Conflict in Congo has sent 63,000 refugees fleeing to neighbouring Burundi in its largest such influx in decades, with conditions dire at a crammed stadium camp and many stuck in ...

BUJUMBURA, Burundi, May 12 (UNHCR) - Nearly 5,000 people from eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have taken refuge in neighbouring Burundi after fleeing a weekend offensive by one of the ...

BUJUMBURA, Burundi (AP) — Burundi is seeing its largest influx of refugees in decades as tens of thousands of people flee the fighting in neighboring eastern Congo, the U.N. World Food Program said ...