Burundi is facing its largest refugee crisis in decades as tens of thousands flee escalating violence in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

The Rwanda-backed M23 armed group and the allied Alliance Fleuve Congo have threatened, detained, and attacked journalists, critics, and civil society activists since capturing Goma in January.

A professor of global health was in Kivu when the fighting began to rage. She recounts what she and her colleagues ...

People displaced by the ongoing fighting gather at refugee camp on the outskirts of Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, ...

It’s estimated that Uganda used to collect over Ush500 million ($136,000) in revenue from the Bunagana border annually ...

This was the last stage in a desperate journey to escape to safety in Burundi as the conflict in eastern DR Congo escalates, ...

Since January, however, the rapid conquest and occupation of a huge area of the Democratic Republic of Congo by Rwanda and the M23 rebel group it supports has raised concerns that the principle may ...

The conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has entered a new and more destabilizing stage. A call for a pause in the fighting by leaders from the 8 member states of the East African ...

The mineral deal talks are taking place at a time when the political situation in the country is increasingly fragile. Tshisekedi’s hold on power has looked shakier in recent weeks as his political ...