LAKE TANGANYIKA, Tanzania (AP) — Hundreds of women, many with children strapped on their backs alongside their few belongings, sing melodious tunes expressing their joy as their small boats approach ...

Refugees from Burundi are being forcibly evicted from camps as Tanzania destroys their homes and churches, pushing them to return, often after years in exile. Entire areas, including churches, have ...

BUJUMBURA, Burundi, Aug 16 (UNHCR) - The hundreds of empty ammunition shells scattered around burned down plastic hangars underlined the severity of the attack at the Gatumba transit centre. It came ...

"Refugees are arriving in their hundreds every day," the agencies, which include Oxfam, Save the Children and HelpAge International, said in a statement. Life-threatening malaria and diarrhoea have ...

BUJUMBURA, Burundi, Sept 24 (UNHCR) - The UN refugee agency has expressed concern that Congolese refugees in Burundi's border area may be under pressure to return to the insecure South Kivu region of ...

A total of 47 Burundian families comprising 74 people on Thursday March 12, voluntarily returned to their home country from Rwanda.The group included 62 refugees from Mahama Camp in Kirehe District ...

Burundi is facing a growing humanitarian emergency as thousands of people fleeing violence in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo continue to cross the border, placing increasing strain on health ...

More than 90,000 Congolese fled across the border after M23 stormed in and took control of Uvira nearly 3 months ago.

Concerns have been raised about the ldquo;coercive rdquo; repatriation from Tanzania of Burundian refugees, many of whom do ...

BUJUMBURA, March 3 (Xinhua) -- The Burundian government and United Nations agencies have signed an 82-million-U.S.-dollar response plan to support the repatriation of about 104,600 Burundian refugees ...