Top United Nations officials in Africa have warned an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council that the offensive of ...

On February 16th soldiers from M 23 marched single-file through the streets of Bukavu, eastern Congo’s second-largest city.

Burundi is facing a rapidly worsening humanitarian situation as more than 40,000 people have fled there in two weeks to ...

Central to their campaign is the assertion that ethnic Tutsis living in DR Congo are being persecuted. Digging into the ...

Countries bordering the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo sought to shore up defences on Wednesday as violence spreads ...

Burundi troops -- allies of Kinshasa -- were still deploying Tuesday in east DR Congo, as the UK announced it was suspending ...

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the advance of Rwanda-backed M23 insurgents, who have already taken two key cities ...

M23 Rebels March Towards South Kivu's Bukavu, Burundi Warns Rwanda | Firstpost Africa | N18G As the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels ...

which includes Congo, Burundi, Rwanda and Uganda. France’s U.N. Ambassador Nicolas De Riviere urged the council to quickly adopt a draft resolution circulated by his country two weeks ago that ...

As fighting continues in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the humanitarian situation is fast deteriorating in neighbouring Burundi, with daily arrivals increasing through its ...

Burundi is dealing with its biggest influx of refugees in 25 years as families flee the escalating conflict in the Democratic ...

Rebels from the M23, backed by the Rwandan army, continue to advance in South Kivu drawing closer to the Burundian border, where troops sent by President Évariste Ndayishimiye have gradually retreated ...