M23 fighters and Rwandan troops on Wednesday pushed further into the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, as Burundi warned ...

M23 fighters on Friday pushed on towards another regional capital in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, prompting shops ...

"I order the closure of the airport and border, and I ask every citizen and ... Nkurunziza started his journey back to Burundi hours after an army officer announced a coup while he was attending ...

Residents of Bukavu, which last fell to rebels in 2004, said people were stocking up on food, torches and batteries or fleeing towards the Burundi border. Civilians recruited by authorities to ...

Burundi’s President Evariste Ndayishimiye has issued a stark warning to Rwanda, accusing it of hostile intentions as tensions ...

The Rwanda-backed M23 has seized vast swathes of eastern DRC and is pressing southwards into South Kivu province, which shares a border with Burundi. Residents run in a street in Goma on 6 ...

Calls made from Kenya to Kenyan lines in Burundi rose to 1.2 million minutes, from just 849 minutes the previous quarter.

Tanzania and Burundi have signed a $US 2.15bn agreement with two Chinese firms to construct a 282km standard-gauge railway ...