Twenty Burundian troops have been killed in fighting with the M23 armed group and Rwandan troops supporting it in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, military sources told AFP on Thursday."We have ...

M23 fighters were quickly approaching the town of Uvira which sits on the northwestern tip of Lake Tanganyika, opposite Bujumbura, the capital economic of Burundi. Burundi fighters were moving north ...

Burundi is facing its largest refugee crisis in decades as tens of thousands flee escalating violence in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

Burundi is withdrawing its forces from eastern Democratic Republic of Congo where they had been fighting against M23 rebels, four sources said on Tuesday, in a further blow to Congo's army as it ...

This was the last stage in a desperate journey to escape to safety in Burundi as the conflict in eastern DR Congo ... to the ...

Burundi is dealing with its biggest influx of ... Some 500 Congolese soldiers and police also arrived in the border town of Gatumba on Wednesday, witnesses and a security source said.

The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) reported that nearly 63,000 refugees have flooded into the country, seeking safety from the ongoing conflict between the M23 rebels and the Congolese army.

He said Burundi now had 16 battalions deployed in South Kivu, most around the town of Bukavu which has an airport that is vital to supplying the Congolese army. Two other security sources ...

Burundi’s President Evariste Ndayishimiye ... we will ourselves attack," he said in comments recorded on Tuesday in the border town of Bugabira, branding Rwanda a "bad neighbour".

M23 fighters were quickly approaching the town of Uvira which sits on the northwestern tip of Lake Tanganyika, opposite Bujumbura, the capital economic of Burundi. Burundi fighters were moving ...