The aid response in Burundi to the crisis in neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) "is literally buckling", the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, warned on Friday, as it relayed dramatic ...

Since January, however, the rapid conquest and occupation of a huge area of the Democratic Republic of Congo by Rwanda and ...

Conflict in Congo has sent 63,000 refugees fleeing to neighbouring Burundi in its largest such influx in decades, with ...

Keita, who also heads the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Congo, told the Security Council that since then, the M23 has kept advancing, seizing the town of Kamanyola at the intersection of three borders ...

BUKAVU, Congo (AP) — Rwanda-backed rebels reached the center of east Congo’s second largest city, Bukavu, on Sunday morning and took control of the South Kivu province administrative office after ...

Burundi's President Evariste Ndayishimiye has had a tense relationship with Rwanda's Kagame for years Rwanda sees Burundi's army as another security threat in eastern DR Congo. The nation that ...

Rwanda-backed rebels in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have advanced southward, reaching Burundi’s border and bringing the central African region to the brink of war, the United Nations said ...

Rwanda-backed rebels have "occupied" a second major city in ... Congo's forces were being supported in Goma by troops from South Africa and in Bukavu by troops from Burundi. But Burundi's president, ...

Rwanda not afraid of 'being diplomatically isolated, sanctions,' Olivier Nduhungirehe says amid critics against Rwanda's ...

Rwanda and Burundi. At this stage, the U.N. doesn’t know the M23 agenda, the intention of its backers or how far they will go and why, said Huang, the Great Lakes U.N. envoy. “This situation ...