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

Income-generating projects have slowed down in Burundi since the fighting in eastern DRC escalated last February.

These include the construction of adequate roads and robust water mains. In an interview with Global Voices, Bigirimana Constantin, director-general of the Burundi Road Agency (ARB), acknowledged: Les ...

It is usually an hour's drive between the nearby Congolese city of Uvira and Burundi's main city of Bujumbura with the road humming with traders and vehicles. Now it is only one-way traffic with ...