FILE - Burundi President Evariste Ndayishimiye speaks during a plenary session at the COP28 U.N. Climate Summit, Saturday, Dec. 2, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Dozens of Burundian troops have been detained for refusing to be deployed to eastern Congo in the fight against the M23 rebel group as it advances toward a major border city, according to army officers, prison officials and other witnesses. Burundian President Évariste Ndayishimiye, in a public broadcast on Dec. 29, 2023, acknowledged the presence of Burundian troops in eastern Congo under the terms of a defense pact with Congolese authorities. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool, File)
FILE - People view the bodies of people killed following an attack by a rebel group RED-Tabara, based in the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday, at the St François Xavier parish church, in Gatumba, Burundi, Tuesday, Dec. 26, 2023. Dozens of Burundian troops have been detained for refusing to be deployed to eastern Congo in the fight against the M23 rebel group as it advances toward a major border city, according to army officers, prison officials and other witnesses. Tensions have been rising in Africa's Great Lakes region as Rwanda, Burundi and Congo trade accusations over support for violent rebel groups operating in the lawless areas of eastern Congo. (AP Photo/Berthier Muugirraaneza, File)