Burundi faces serious climate and environmental challenges. The biggest is the country's overdependence on the use of biomass ...

Holding an emergency meeting following advances by the 23 March Movement, or M23, towards the city of Goma in the Democratic ...

Rwanda’s Minister of Interior, Vincent Biruta, has urged representatives from the East African Community (EAC) partner states to accelerate the implementation of the Northern Corridor Integration ...

The conflict in eastern DR Congo risks escalating into a broader regional war, Burundi's president said Saturday, as Africa's top health agency warned the fighting could spark new outbreaks of serious ...

As Rwanda-backed M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo push south towards the city of Bukavu, they are likely to have to fight their way through thousands of troops from Burundi, ramping ...

Rwandan-backed M23 rebels asserted their control over east Congo's largest city Goma on Thursday by calling on residents to ...

Critical minerals factor into the fight.

The conflict has its roots in Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, which spilled over the border into Congo, leading to decades of fighting. Like the leaders of Rwanda, M23 is mostly made up of people from ...

Rebels backed by Rwanda have captured more towns in eastern Congo as fighters moved beyond the key city of Goma in an apparent attempt to expand their control in the conflict-battered region GOMA ...

thousands of Rwandan farmers moved into the fertile hills of Congo's Kivu region, sowing the seeds for Rwandophone communities variously known as the "Banyarwanda," "Banyamulenge" or "Banyabwisha".

GOMA, Congo (AP) — Rebels backed by Rwanda captured more towns in eastern Congo on Wednesday as they moved beyond the key city of Goma in an apparent attempt to expand their control in the ...