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 ...

The alliance between the Congolese army, MONUSCO, the Wazalendo, and the FDLR has contributed to the increased militarization of the region and widespread hatred against the Tutsi. Such a military and ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

blamed Congolese troops and their allies from local militia and neighboring Burundi for the disorder in Bukavu. M23, a rebel group backed by about 4,000 troops from neighboring Rwanda, is the most ...

Burundi's President Evariste Ndayishimiye has had a tense relationship with Rwanda's Kagame for years Rwanda sees Burundi's army as another security threat in eastern DR Congo. The nation that ...

Burundi’s President Evariste Ndayishimiye has issued a stark warning to Rwanda, accusing it of hostile intentions as tensions escalate over the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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 ...