The Burundi Red Cross has set up a vital humanitarian service point at the Rugombo Stadium a few kilometres from the Democratic Republic of Congo border, providing shelter for almost 40,000 refugees - ...

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

The 25-year-old clung on to a black bin bag with some possessions as he used the strong currents to navigate his way across the Rusizi river, which forms the border between DR Congo and Burundi.

The New Times got first sight of some of the rebel fighters at Rusizi 1 Border Post at 10am on Sunday, hours after the rebels had taken over most parts of the city. ALSO READ:M23 commander who ...

Many are using makeshift boats to traverse the Rusizi River, a perilous crossing at the border shared by Burundi, DRC and Rwanda. "The escalating security situation in the DR Congo has been having a ...

The Congolese part of the Rusizi border crossing has been under the M23 control since Monday morning after officers of the DR Congo’s border and customs services had left it on Saturday.

Members of the M23 rebel group walk in a formation, as they patrol across Rusizi river near the Rusizi border crossing point, as Congolese civilians who fled from Bukavu, eastern Democratic ...

Pastor Theoneste Ngirinshuti, 53, a resident of Rusizi District, looked beat, but so happy to have made it back home in one piece, on Sunday, February 16, when The New Times bumped into him ...

Members of the M23 rebel group walk in a formation, as they patrol across Rusizi river near the Rusizi border crossing point, as Congolese civilians who fled from Bukavu, eastern Democratic ...

Focusing on three key landscapes — Kenya’s Greater Rift Valley, the Ghana Cocoa Belt, and the Lake Kivu and Rusizi River Basin spanning Burundi, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo ...

The vast majority continue to arrive via unofficial crossing points, many traversing the Rusizi river into the Rugombo and Buganda Communes in Cibitoke Province. Many families remain without shelter ...

Focusing on three key landscapes — Kenya’s Greater Rift Valley, the Ghana Cocoa Belt, and the Lake Kivu and Rusizi River Basin spanning Burundi, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo ...