Following the October 1993 assassination of Melchior Ndadaye, the first Hutu to be freely elected president of Burundi, Hutu massacred thousands of Tutsi, often at the direction of local political ...

It accuses Congo's military of joining forces with Hutu-led militias it says are bent on slaughtering Tutsis in Congo and threatening Rwanda. Burundi, whose ruling party draws heavily from the ...

It says it is defending itself against the threat from a Hutu militia, which it says is fighting with the Congolese military. Several areas in northwest Burundi are overwhelmed with people ...

It says it is defending itself against the threat from a Hutu militia, which it says is fighting with the Congolese military. Burundi has had its own soldiers in eastern Congo for years ...

Burundi denies withdrawing troops from Congo amid M23 rebel ... It says it is defending itself against the threat from a Hutu militia, which it says is fighting with the Congolese military. Congo ...

Nkurunziza's bid for a third term has plunged Burundi into its worst crisis since the civil war that pitted rebels from the ethnic Hutu majority against the then Tutsi-led army and killed about ...

Burundian troops are monitoring the riverbank ... The countries share a similar language and ethnic make-up - with Tutsi and Hutu communities often vying for power - and both have suffered ...

Relations between Rwanda and Burundi have long been hostile, with both accusing each other of trying to overthrow their respective governments. The countries share a similar language and ethnic ...