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Burundi

April 2026

  • A young boy wearing no shirt carries a young goat in his arms

    No food, no shelter, no blankets: inside Burundi’s fast-growing refugee camps – in pictures

    Having fled violence in the neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo, tens of thousands of people are living in dire conditions in Burundi refugee camps where Red Cross services are providing humanitarian aid
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February 2026

  • Congolese people displaced during renewed clashes between AFC/M23 and FARDC walk back to their homes from Sange in LuvungiCongolese people displaced during renewed clashes between Alliance Fleuve Congo AFC/M23 and the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (FARDC), walk back to their homes from Sange, in Luvungi, a settlement north of Uvira, South Kivu province, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, December 13, 2025. REUTERS/Stringer

    ‘You take what you can and run’: families describe harrowing journey to escape fighting in DRC

    Thousands who fled the advance of M23 rebels now face the threat of disease and shortages in Burundi’s overcrowded refugee camps

December 2025

  • M23 rebel fighters at a border crossing point in Rwanda

    US scolds Rwanda for breaking peace deal as M23 rebels seize key Congo city

  • Passengers are driven on motorbike taxis along a road in Uvira on Tuesday

    Rwanda-backed M23 rebels say they have captured key city in eastern DRC

  • A line of families along a road holding their possessions in bags and on their backs.

    People flee DRC fighting a day after peace deal signed in Washington

  • The hands of an African woman in a pink dress holding jars of tablets

    Aid cuts
    Aid cuts have shaken HIV/Aids care to its core – and will mean millions more infections ahead

September 2025

  • A boy chases a football on dusty ground in front of tightly packed small shanties

    Sex work and abuse: the women trapped in Malawi’s growing refugee camp

    With the US no longer accepting refugees, Dzaleka’s residents have no prospect of relocation. Three women tell us what life is like in a camp designed for 10,000 people but which now holds more than 58,000

March 2025

  • Atosha holds a child at a displacement centre in Cibitoke province in Burundi on March 6, 2025. Photograph: Carlos Mureithi.

    ‘I was terrified’: refugees who fled DRC to Burundi recall deadly river crossing

    People tell of family members being swept away in desperate attempts to escape the advance of the M23 rebel group
  • Hand holding a smartphone in the foreground, as men sit on parked motorcycles behind, with some also looking at their phones

    Internet shutdowns at record high in Africa as access ‘weaponised’

    More governments seeking to keep millions of people offline amid conflicts, protests and political instability
  • An Aids patient holds life-saving anti-retroviral medication in Zambia, southern Africa.

    ‘This will cost lives’: cuts to UK aid budget condemned as ‘betrayal’ by international development groups

    Widespread alarm at Keir Starmer’s decision to slash funds, amid warnings of dire consequences for world’s poorest

January 2025

  • Monique Bitu Bingi, one of the plaintiffs in the case, holds holds a photo of herself as a young girl before she was forcibly removed from her parents

    Court ruling on Belgium’s conduct in colonial Africa hailed as turning point

    Verdict of crimes against humanity for kidnap of mixed-race children could pave way for wider justice, activists say

August 2024

  • This image provided by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases shows a colorized transmission electron micrograph of monkeypox particles (red) found within an infected cell (blue)

    What is mpox and why has it been declared a global health emergency?

    The World Health Organization is warning that the increasing spread of the virus in Africa could cross over into other continents

April 2024

  • A man stands next to brown flowing floodwater covering a fallen hut, as people on the other side of the water search to retrieve belongings from rubble among damaged housing

    Kenya flood death toll rises as more torrential rain forecast

    Total deaths reach 76 and more than 130,000 displaced as weeks of flooding also affects east African neighbours

January 2024

  • Arianna at a safe house with 20 other transgender people on the outskirts of Kampala.

    Rights and freedom
    ‘If I go out, I’ll be a target’: fear stalks Uganda over brutal anti-gay laws

    Despite sharp international condemnation, the new legislation – its measures include the death penalty for ‘aggravated homosexuality’ – has found support elsewhere in Africa

December 2023

  • Burundi's security guards on patrol on the back of a truck

    Attack by rebels in western Burundi leaves 20 dead

    Red-Tabara group claims responsibility for assault in Vugizo that killed 12 children, three women and five men

August 2023

  • The Burundi under-19 handball team.

    Croatian police looking for 10 handball players from Burundi missing from competition

    Players have not been heard from since leaving their accommodation last Wednesday

July 2023

  • Louise Raedler Waterhouse and King Siaosi Tupou V

    From Rita Ora to Daryl Maguire via Margaret Court: the curious links and unsung lives of Australia’s honorary consuls

    It’s generally a low-profile job, especially when you are representing San Marino. But occasionally honorary consuls burst into the spotlight

April 2023

  • A runner in sorts and singlet poses with his arms crossed

    A common condition
    ‘A precision approach to activism’: distance runners join fight against Africa’s air pollution

    Citizen scientists in Lagos, Cape Town and Accra are gathering air-quality data on runs to help curb a key cause of early death

October 2022

  • Neptune Frost.

    Neptune Frost review – exhilarating Afrofuturist musical battles exploitation

  • Beckah Amani: ‘Some of my earliest memories are of my mum and dad playing the guitar under the stars.’

    Beckah Amani captures the chaos: ‘Growing up right now, we’re stuck in this whirlwind’

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