Burundi said Wednesday that it will send 1,700 peacekeepers to Somalia as part of an 8,000-strong African Union force, while the first Ugandan contingent prepared to leave for the war-torn nation. “The government of Burundi has accepted an AU request to send a brigade of 1,700 soldiers to Somalia,” Burundi’s deputy army chief Godefroid Niyombare told AFP. Full Story
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