Sources: Burundi authorities; and IMF staff estimates and projections. 1/ Fiscal year values (July-June, i.e. 2025 is FY 2024/25). 2/ Including budget support. 3/ Goods and services 4/ Goods, in ...

Since early 2025, clashes have intensified in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), displacing hundreds of thousands of people across the region. Tens of thousands have fled ...

Gabby Bugaga, Burundi’s Minister of Communication, was found dead in a damaged vehicle near Bujumbura, with authorities initially describing the incident as a car accident. Officials said the exact ...

Burundi’s army says that at least 13 civilians have been killed and 57 others were wounded when ammunition exploded due to an electrical short circuit at a military base in the economic capital ...

Multiple explosions ripped through the city of Bujumbura after a fire broke out late on Tuesday at a military arsenal in Burundi's economic capital, an army spokesman said. Fear of a coup in the small ...

Ineza Clinic project outpatient unit and pharmacy exterior view render, 2026 . Image Courtesy of Kéré Architecture Ineza Clinic project outpatient unit exterior view render, 2026. Image Courtesy of ...

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Uvira, Democratic Republic of the Congo – Monday, December 8, 2025, is a day Joseph Bahisi says he will always remember. M23 rebels, who early last year captured several key towns and cities in ...

GENEVA – UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is renewing its call for urgent funding to scale up lifesaving aid in Burundi, warning that the country is under intensifying humanitarian pressure as it hosts ...

KINSHASA, Jan 10 - More than 50 refugees fleeing fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have died in neighbouring Burundi, the United Nations Refugee Agency told Reuters late on Friday. Of a ...

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 ...

If you have ever wondered what the capital of Burundi is, you will be surprised. Unlike many African nations where capitals are global names, Burundi’s capital feels quiet, cultural, and full of ...