Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STORY: Escalating violence in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo is putting a strain on neighboring Burundi. The United Nations ...

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 ...

RUYIGI, Burundi — Thousands of Congolese refugees in Burundi have returned to their homes across the border in eastern Congo following the withdrawal of Rwandan-backed rebels from a key town. Some 470 ...

Burundian President Evariste Ndayishimiye attends a meeting on the sidelines of the 2nd Russia-Africa Summit, in St. Petersburg, Russia, July 27, 2023 (Sputnik photo by Alexei Danichev via AP Images).

Two civilians were killed and seven other injured in attacks on villages in eastern DR Congo over the weekend, the AFC/M23 rebel movement said on Monday. The Sunday attacks were carried out against ...

BUJUMBURA, Burundi Burundi and Rwanda threatened Tuesday to send soldiers into neighboring Congo to hunt down Hutu extremists responsible for slaughtering more than 160 Congolese Tutsi refugees at a U ...

Congolese refugees displaced by clashes in Democratic Republic of Congo arrived at a refugee camp in Burundi on February 17 - Copyright Ritzau Scanpix/AFP Emil ...

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 ...