Three boys likely no older than 15 were killed during an altercation with rebels after they refused to give up weapons they had taken from an abandoned military camp, she said. Between 10,000 and ...

Burundi is seeing its largest influx of refugees in decades as tens of thousands of people flee the fighting in neighboring ...

Burundi troops -- allies of Kinshasa -- were ... in the conflict in east DRC have returned home for treatment, their military said on Tuesday. The troops were part of a mission sent by the 16 ...

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 fields outside, the U ...

Jordan Bita preferred to risk his life swimming across a roaring river than stay at home and be conscripted by rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

Burundi has "accelerated" the withdrawal of some troops from DR Congo, a senior military source told AFP Thursday, as the UN warned the small Great Lakes nation was seeing its biggest influx of ...

Despite being enmeshed in the larger conflict within the region, the parties in Burundi persisted in peace negotiations just as military conflict escalated in the DRC. The new government and most ...

In his turn, Burundi Foreign Minister Albert Shingiro pointed out that "both sides are ready to further strengthen interaction in these areas" SOCHI, March 23. /TASS/. Russian Foreign Minister ...

Since October 2023, Burundi has deployed more than 10,000 troops to support the Congolese army under a military cooperation agreement with Kinshasa. But sources told AFP last week that the ...

Burundi has more than 10,000 troops deployed in DR Congo helping the military there fight the M23. Many of their soldiers are now based in Uvira, which has a population of more than 300,000.

It says it is defending itself against the threat from a Hutu militia, which it says is fighting with the Congolese military. Burundi has had its own soldiers in eastern Congo for years ...