The United Nations says Burundi is seeing its largest influx of refugees in decades as tens of thousands of people flee the ...

Funding is desperately needed to feed a wave of refugees fleeing the ongoing conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

Burundi's President Évariste Ndayishimiye tells the BBC he has seen "credible intelligence" that Rwanda plans to attack his ...

The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has rapidly mobilized additional assistance in Burundi to support the large influx of families fleeing violence in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

With thousands fleeing violence in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) across the border into Burundi, aid operations ...

Ongoing violence and instability, including fighting by M23 rebels, has forced millions of people to flee their homes.

After talks in Qatar, the two countries’ presidents said they were committed to an unconditional truce between Congo’s army ...

Thousands are without lifesaving aid in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo due to critical funding gaps, the United ...

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Many of the refugees are women and children. The decades-long conflict in eastern Congo escalated in January, when the M23 rebels seized the strategic city of Goma, followed by the city of Bukavu ...