The Kavimvira crossing, a key trade route linking Uvira in South Kivu province with Burundi’s economic capital Bujumbura, reopened on Monday after Congolese authorities reasserted control of the area.

A key border post between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Burundi reopened Monday after more than two months of closure triggered by an offensive by the Rwanda-backed AFC/M23. The Kavimvira ...

Burundi has officially assumed the rotating chairmanship of the African Union (AU) for 2026, as President Evariste Ndayishimiye made a heartfelt pledge to lead with impartiality and strengthen the ...

Abuja — Vice President Kashim Shettima yesterday joined other African leaders and beyond at the opening of the 39th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African ...

On Friday, February 6, 2026, the United States signed a five-year bilateral health cooperation Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Republic of Burundi valued at nearly $156 million, in ...

Thousands who fled the advance of M23 rebels now face the threat of disease and shortages in Burundi’s overcrowded refugee camps It must have been an eerie sight when 35-year-old Dieudoné Muka looked ...

Nigeria and South Africa are the two largest economies in sub-Saharan Africa, generating almost one-third of the region’s GDP. Tragically, in the past decade both have gone backwards. On average, ...

IN what remains of a cemetery, at what used to be the edge of Bujumbura, the living displace the dead. Burundi’s largest city is growing so fast that people have built homes where once there were ...

Over 84,000 refugees have fled violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo into neighbouring Burundi this month, marking the second major influx this year. The UN says the surge has overwhelmed ...

Burundi’s lakes host hundreds of bird species now threatened by hunting and habitat loss. Local communities are stepping up to protect them. Madlanga Commission witness D shot dead in Brakpan The ...

A carriage for the Tanzania's Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) project is unloaded as Tanzania received 14 economy class carriages of South Korean company Sung Shin Rolling Stock (SSRT) at the port in Dar ...

Burundi's President Evariste Ndayishimiye accused officials of leading his impoverished nation "to its death" by failing to denounce people he believes are plundering its resources. The tiny African ...