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 ...

as Burundi warned Kigali it would respond if attacked. The armed group, which has gained ground against the Congolese army since it re-emerged in 2021, seized two towns on the road to Bukavu ...

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

Part of this initiative is also linked to the so-called Global Security Initiative, where China says the world should address ...

Burundi troops -- allies of Kinshasa -- were still deploying Tuesday in east DR Congo, as the UK announced it was suspending ...

Burundi troops -- allies of Kinshasa -- were ... of heavily armed Burundian soldiers heading towards Luvungi", some by road from Uvira, others "crossing the Ruizi River" which runs along the ...

The armed group, which has gained ground against the Congolese army since it re-emerged in 2021, seized two towns on the road to Bukavu ... it to re-route flights. Burundi, which borders both ...