The submission echoed concerns articulated by several informed observers, including the U.N.'s Special Adviser for the Prevention of Genocide, Adama Dieng, and the International Crisis Group, which ...

A just-signed agreement aimed at ending the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo looked to be unravelling Monday with the DRC and Burundi slamming neighbouring Rwanda after the Rwanda-backed ...

M23 fighters entered the key eastern Democratic Republic of Congo city of Uvira late on Tuesday, sources said, with thousands fleeing across the border into Burundi to escape the Rwanda-backed militia ...

Commissioner for Crisis Management held ‘frank and constructive’ talks in Goma with AFC/M23 leaders - Anadolu Ajansı ...

For several years, Burundi has been militarily involved in the crisis in eastern DR Congo. It operates alongside the Congolese armed forces (FARDC), FDLR – a Kinshasa-backed terrorist group formed by ...

Rwanda's Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation has said Burundi would find it "difficult" trying to engage in African Union-led mediation of the conflict in eastern DR ...

A key border post between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Burundi reopened Monday after more than two months of closure triggered by an offensive by the Rwanda-backed AFC/M23. The Kavimvira ...

UNHCR is extremely concerned at reports from some Rwandan asylum seekers in Burundi that indicate physical and verbal intimidation are being used to force them to go home. Asylum seekers at the Ntega ...

UNHCR remains concerned about 5,000 Rwandan asylum seekers in Burundi living in makeshift conditions along the two countries' common border. The Rwandans say they fled to Burundi because of fears over ...

GOMA, Congo (AP) — Rwandan-backed rebels pushed into the outskirts of the strategic city of Uvira in eastern Congo on Tuesday, local authorities said, as part of a new offensive that the U.N. says has ...