In just two weeks, over 60,000 people have crossed into Burundi, fleeing deadly violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Uhagarariye u Rwanda avuga ko nta mahitamo rufite uretse gukaza ubwirinzi bwarwo, kandi ko ruzakomeza kubikora.

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda-backed M23 fighters are marching on the eastern city of Uvira near the border with Burundi, triggering panic, with residents reporting widespread looting,

R ulers of the Democratic Republic of Congo have rarely, if ever, fully controlled the east of Africa’s second-largest country. Kinshasa, its capital, is 1,500km from the provinces (South Kivu, North Kivu and Ituri) that border the other Great Lakes countries (Burundi,

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Burundi is facing a rapidly worsening humanitarian situation as more than 40,000 people have fled there in two weeks to escape fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the U.N. said on Friday.

A conflict that has simmered in Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern borderlands for years is set to erupt into a wider regional war.

Burundi has been facing a massive influx of refugees as families flee fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). "Just in the first two weeks, we have received 42,000 people already seeking asylum," said Brigitte Mukanya-Eno, a representative of ...

As the conflict continues to ravage the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, bishops are warning about the real possibility of the violence spreading throughout the entire Great Lakes region of Africa.

A professor of global health was in Kivu when the fighting began to rage. She recounts what she and her colleagues experienced during those days of terror.

Burundi has "accelerated" the withdrawal ... Rwandan-backed M23 fighters have made big gains in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, seizing the cities of Goma and Bukavu, prompting warnings ...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has begun the relocation of refugees fleeing from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to Burundi.