In response to a request from the Bank of the Republic of Burundi (BRB), the Monetary and Capital Markets Department (MCM) of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) carried out a Financial Sector ...

People are mainly arriving at the Gatumba border post, close to the capital Bujumbura, he adds. Some of these refugees are seeking asylum in Burundi to legalize their stay. Others prefer to rent ...

BUJUMBURA - Street battles and gunfire erupted again in the Burundi capital on Thursday as protesters against President Pierre Nkurunziza rejected his calls for calm in the east African nation ...

NAIROBI: Nearly 90 people were killed during Friday's clashes in the Burundian capital, the army said on Saturday, the worst outbreak of violence in Burundi since a failed coup in May. Blasts and ...

M23 fighters were quickly approaching the town of Uvira which sits on the northwestern tip of Lake Tanganyika, opposite Bujumbura, the capital economic of Burundi. Burundi fighters were moving ...

People are mainly arriving at the Gatumba border post, close to the capital Bujumbura, he adds. Some of these refugees are seeking asylum in Burundi to legalize their stay. Others prefer to rent ...

Jordan Bita preferred to risk his life swimming across a roaring river than stay at home and be conscripted by rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

South Kivu's provincial capital Bukavu, home to one million people and bordering Rwanda, is roughly 50 kilometres from Burundi, which is dealing with its biggest influx of refugees in 25 years.

Thousands of Congolese are opting make a dangerous river crossing to get to safety in Burundi. People are fleeing the continuing fighting in DRC across the river to neighbouring Burundi.

the capital economic of Burundi. Burundi fighters were moving north of Uvira to fend off the advance of M23 fighters. "Since Sunday, we have observed movements of heavily armed Burundian soldiers ...

This was the last stage in a desperate journey to escape to safety in Burundi as the conflict in ... province and in mid-February Bukavu, the capital of South Kivu, fell. Those crossing the ...