In 2023, Burundi sent hundreds of soldiers to fight the M23 rebellion in North Kivu alongside the Congolese army and allied ...
In contrast, relatively little has been said about Burundi’s potential withdrawal of its soldiers from Somalia over a dispute about troop numbers. Burundi had suggested contributing 3 000 of AUSSOM’s ...
Successive forces have come through the revovling doors of the Horn of Africa nation and gone out without implementing a ...
Burundi said on Wednesday it would keep its 2,500 peacekeepers in Somalia despite threats from ... yellow streak," he told reporters. The soldiers from the two east African countries make up ...
Tensions flared when Somalia restricted Burundi's troop deployment to just 1,041 soldiers for AUSSOM, far less than the 2,000 Burundi sought to contribute. A letter dated December 26 from Somalia's ...
Burundi had suggested contributing 3,000 of Aussom's 12,626 soldiers, but then said it would not participate after Somalia indicated it would accept only 1,000. A letter from Somalia's defence ...
Somalia offered Burundi 1,041 troops for the mission ... also comes amid pressure from its citizens over the loss of soldiers in the fight against Al-Shabab. Reports suggest resistance to ...
Shabaab, the al Qaeda-linked terror group based in Somalia, announced on Radio Furqaan that it has the identification cards of at least 10 Burundian soldiers who have ...
"We are in pain for all the young men who have died while in Somalia. It's time for them to come back home and guard our borders," Joseph Tasur continued. Family members of soldiers are angry ...
Kenya, Burundi, Djibouti and Ethiopia also have troops with the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia. The last such shooting involving Ugandan soldiers in Somalia occurred in May 2019 when ...