Rwanda and Burundi are engaged in ongoing talks aimed at reaching “a common understanding” and to calm tensions that resulted from the conflict in eastern DR Congo, says the Minister of Foreign ...

Burundi is facing its largest refugee crisis in decades as tens of thousands flee escalating violence in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).The resurgence of the M23 rebel group has forced ...

What is true inside Burundi is equally so in the larger region ... tempted to organize ethnic violence in order to disrupt any peace accords. The majority of cases now pending would be judged ...

The aid response in Burundi to the crisis in neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) “is literally buckling”, the ...

But a peace without accountability for past crimes offers little hope for future stability within Burundi or the larger region. More than one hundred thousand civilians have been slain in Burundi ...

As the conflict continues to ravage the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, bishops are warning about the real possibility ...

Marguerite Barankitse, "the Angel of Burundi", on adopting children displaced by war.

While in Rwanda, regime change came about through a military victory, Burundi's transition from conflict to peace involved a long and complex peace-negotiations process, with international mediators ...

Burundi troops -- allies of Kinshasa -- were ... African countries appointed Tuesday a trio of ex-leaders to oversee a push for peace in the region, while an International Criminal Court (ICC ...

For the first time, the Democratic Republic of Congo and the M23 rebel group will engage in direct peace talks on March 18 in Angola's capital, a move brokered by Angola in hopes of de-escalating a ...

told us she came to Burundi with her four children after her husband was shot dead by M23 rebels in South-Kivu. "I'm hoping ...