BUJUMBURA, Burundi — Burundi is seeing its largest influx of refugees in decades as tens of thousands of people flee the fighting in neighboring eastern Congo, the U.N. World Food Program said ...

The sharp increase in refugees in need of aid has placed a significant strain on WFP food assistance programmes in Burundi. Since January 2025, nearly 70,000 people - mainly women, children and ...

The DRC itself is home to over half-a-million foreign refugees, mostly from South Sudan, the Central African Republic, ...

This image taken from a video provided by U.N. World Food Program shows Rugombo Stadium where more than 45,000 Congolese refugees are sheltering on March 11, 2025, in Rugombo, Burundi.

BUJUMBURA, Burundi (AP) — Burundi is seeing its largest influx of refugees in decades as tens of thousands of people flee the fighting in neighboring eastern Congo, the U.N. World Food Program ...