Burundian troops in Somalia, who were to depart from the African Union mission by end of ...

Burundi is withdrawing its forces from eastern Democratic Republic of Congo where they had been fighting against M23 rebels, four sources said on Tuesday, in a further blow to Congo's army as it ...

A former Burundian army officer who quit the military to oppose President Pierre Nkurunziza has announced the formation of a new force aimed at toppling the government, Reuters reported.

But a spokesman for the Burundian military dismissed reports of the ongoing pull-out as "fake", and said in a post on X that his country's soldiers were "continuing to execute their missions in ...

Under the peace deal that ended Burundi's 1993-2005 civil war, which killed 300,000 people, its military put in place an ethnic quota system that shared positions between Hutus and Tutsis equally.

A Burundian army captain told the AP he had deserted the military after refusing to be sent to Congo. “For a professional soldier to engage in combat, there must at least be the motive for the ...

Dozens of Burundian troops have been detained for refusing to be deployed to eastern Congo in the fight against the M23 rebel group. Clashes have intensified in recent weeks.

Under the peace deal that ended Burundi's 1993-2005 civil war, which killed 300,000 people, its military put in place an ethnic quota system that shared positions between Hutus and Tutsis equally.

At the request of the Burundian military, U.S. Army Africa's Africa Deployment Assistance Partnership Team conducted a deployment capability training event with uniformed members of the Burundian ...

Increasing chaos in Burundi could 'end in military coup' Published May 01, 2015 at 1:49 PM EDT Updated May 21, 2017 at 10:16 PM EDT. By .

A secret United Nations report accuses the Rwandan army of training Burundian rebels looking to oust President Pierre Nkurunziza from power.

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