Climate

The World Food Programme is seeking $26 million to prepare for and respond to El Niño in Burundi, warning that more than 1 million...

East African countries are converging on a common climate position ahead of COP31, the UN's 31st climate conference, with farmers and regional experts calling...

Smallholder farmers and civil society organisations across East Africa are calling for the new EAC Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan 2026–2036 to put...

When Lake Tanganyika rose around Gatumba, families did what they could to survive: they carried belongings to higher ground, abandoned flooded homes, and in...

A new flood-protection dike has been built along the Rusizi River in Gatumba, the Burundian town hit hardest by repeated flooding from Lake Tanganyika,...

Representatives of the Democratic Republic of Congo's government and the Alliance Fleuve Congo/M23 rebel alliance said Saturday they had agreed on a roadmap for...

Burundi has spent years pitching its lakes, waterfalls, forests and tea plantations to the outside world. Now tourism officials are asking a more basic...

Burundi is establishing a 300 billion Burundian franc (more than $100 million) credit facility to finance agriculture, livestock and agro-processing investments at an annual...

More than 2,000 people have died from confirmed Ebola infections in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with half of those deaths recorded in the...

East African businesses are calling for faster action to remove trade barriers, improve border efficiency and connect payment systems as companies seek to take...