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(Mogadishu) 24 Dis 2018 <\/strong>– Burundi has opposed calls by the African Union (AU) to scale back its troops in Somalia serving as part of the African peacekeeping mission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead, Burundi has thrown back a counter offer instead asking the AU to task other African nations with withdrawing a proportionate number of soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This has set up new battle lines between the east African nation and the African Union who already have tense relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Burundi army spokesman Colonel Floribert Biyereke on Sunday said that the military would ask the government to argue for a proportionate number of troops be withdrawn from each AU member country, rather than solely Burundian soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The AU has called on Burundi to ease its hard line stance on dissent and talk with its exiled opposition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Burundi\n is the second biggest contributor to the 21,500 strong peacekeeping \nforce with 5,400 soldiers, behind Uganda with 6,200 but ahead of \nDjibouti, Kenya and Ethiopia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The African Union is gradually \nscaling back its Amisom force as Somalia\u2019s nascent armed forces are \ntrained and deployed to replace them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amisom was first deployed in\n 2007 to support Somalia\u2019s fragile internationally-backed government and\n fight Al-Shabaab jihadists blamed for scores of bloody attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A key consequence of an eventual troop drawdown is financial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Participation\n in Amisom is a valuable source of hard currency, and the scale back is \nlikely to have a big impact on Burundi, every quarter, the AU pays it \naround $18 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That represents a major source of foreign \ncurrency for Burundi, which has seen funding from the European Union \nsuspended over human rights issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Burundi soldiers also earn \nmuch less once they return from serving with Amisom, and an AU official \nwho asked not to be named said they were poorly equipped, and thus \nlogical candidates for the first phase of departures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Source: CGTN Africa<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hadalsame Media<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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