The aid response in Burundi to the crisis in neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) “is literally buckling”, the ...

As violence rages on in the DRC, the UN has given the green light to the evacuation of families of its international staff ...

Rwanda-backed rebels have "occupied" a second major city in mineral-rich eastern Congo, Congo's government said ... in Goma by troops from South Africa and in Bukavu by troops from Burundi. But ...

Countries bordering the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo sought to shore up defences on Wednesday as violence spreads through the region, with Burundi forced to pull back troops and Uganda ...

DRC - M23 fighters and Rwandan troops on Wednesday pushed further into the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, as Burundi warned ... the violence in the mineral-rich region.

Prior to the recent escalation in the conflict, the UNHCR said that Burundi was already hosting roughly 90 000 people - mainly Congolese - who had fled previous bouts of violence in the mineral-rich ...

M23 fighters and Rwandan troops on Wednesday pushed further into the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, as Burundi warned Kigali it would ... have failed to halt the violence in the ...

There are fears the escalation of fighting between troops and militias in the vast mineral-rich region could trigger ... landlocked country of Burundi in particular, with senior army and ...

Burundi troops -- allies of Kinshasa -- were still deploying ... Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), giving the armed group a major foothold in the mineral-rich region since taking up arms again in ...