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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...