Somalia: AU Condemns EU Payment for Somali Troops

The African Union has lashed the EU for saying it will pay Burundian peacekeepers in Somalia directly, rather than through their government, ostensibly to prevent the money being diverted to the regime in Bujumbura.

In a statement issued late Friday after a meeting of its military operations coordination committee in Addis Ababa, the AU said it "strong rejects" the EU's decision to "differentiate its payment procedure" to the Burundian military contingent in Somalia.

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