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

BUJUMBURA - Street battles and gunfire erupted again in the Burundi capital on Thursday as protesters against President Pierre Nkurunziza rejected his calls for calm in the east African nation ...

NAIROBI: Nearly 90 people were killed during Friday's clashes in the Burundian capital, the army said on Saturday, the worst outbreak of violence in Burundi since a failed coup in May. Blasts and ...

People are mainly arriving at the Gatumba border post, close to the capital Bujumbura, he adds. Some of these refugees are seeking asylum in Burundi to legalize their stay. Others prefer to rent ...

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 ...

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 ...

The rest of the Burundian contingent is deployed further south in DRC, around the towns of Fizi and Uvira, which lies just over the border from Burundi's economic capital Bujumbura. Their main ...