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Burundi: Tanzania Backs Plan to Send Peacekeepers
Nation, 10 January 2016
Tanzania has become the first East African Community member to openly support the deployment of peacekeeping troops to troubled Burundi, despite Bujumbura referring to the proposed… Read more »
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Burundi: Uganda in Spotlight As Peace Talks Fail to Take Off
East African, 9 January 2016
Uganda's leading role in the inter-Burundi dialogue has come under scrutiny after the second round of talks failed to take off in Arusha last week. Read more »
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Africa: Burundi a Big Step Forward for the AU
ISS, 8 January 2016
The symbolic value of the African Union's (AU's) decision at the end of last year to send troops to Burundi should not be underestimated. Read more »
First East African Nation Backs Peacekeepers in Burundi
Tanzanian Foreign Minister Augustine Mahiga said the peacekeeping mission was essential as it would protect civilians, even as the community looked for a permanent solution to the crisis. Burundi government representatives stayed away when peace talks resumed in Arusha on January 6.
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The chairperson of the AU Commission, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, has told i President Pierre Nkurunziza that "the AU has no other agenda than to assist the government and people of ... Read more »
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Differences between the government and opposition raise doubts over whether the intra-Burundi dialogue, relaunched under the leadership of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, will ... Read more »
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Representatives from the government and the opposition met in Kampala on the initiative of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, the East African Community's mediator in the Burundi ... Read more »
