BUJUMBURA, BURUNDI – As conflict in the eastern parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) continues, thousands are still crossing the border into Burundi in what has become the largest ...

Avant cette vague, le Burundi comptait déjà selon le HCR environ 90.000 réfugiés sur son sol, essentiellement congolais, venus notamment pendant les deux guerres du Congo (1996-1997 et 1998-2003).

Nairobi (AFP) – Burundi has "accelerated" the withdrawal of some troops from DR Congo, a senior military source told AFP Thursday, as the UN warned the small Great Lakes nation was seeing its ...

Burundi has been facing a massive influx of refugees as families flee fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). "Just in the first two weeks, we have received 42,000 people already ...

This is a summary of what was said by Brigitte Mukanga-Eno, UNHCR Representative in Burundi– to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. As ...

Selon le HCR, en deux semaines, 42 000 personnes y ont demandé l’asile. Le Burundi, qui a déployé depuis 2023 plus de 10 000 soldats en soutien à l’armée congolaise, avait déjà ...

D’ores et déjà, plus de 42 000 Congolais ont franchi la frontière constituée par la rivière Rusizi, selon la représentante du haut-commissariat pour les Réfugiés au Burundi, Brigitte ...

The sun is barely rising in rural Burundi when we begin our medical rounds in the pediatric ward. I am an American, doctoring in this central African nation, far away from my home in northern Ohio.

GENEVA (Reuters) -Conflict in Congo has sent 63,000 refugees fleeing to neighbouring Burundi in its largest such influx in decades, with conditions dire at a crammed stadium camp and many stuck in ...

Burundi is dealing with its biggest influx of refugees in 25 years as families flee the escalating conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the United Nations refugee agency said. Rwandan ...

Bujumbura, February 24, 2025 — As thousands of Congolese refugees flee ongoing violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the International Rescue Committee (IRC) is launching this week an ...