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Burundi president: African Union peacekeepers unacceptable

The president of Burundi, Pierre Nkurunziza has said they will stand up to African Union (AU) peacekeepers should they be deployed to the country. “Instead of bringing them to talks, they should instead bring them to the court”.

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But the government and opposition, who met Monday in Uganda, are at odds about how to resolve their differences, and the government has rejected the African Union’s plan to send 5,000 peacekeepers to Burundi to protect civilians.


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A top United Nations official today called on all actors in Burundi to find a consensual solution to the crisis facing their country, which has been facing an upsurge in violence that has prompted fears of a relapse into the decades of civil war that killed tens of thousands of people.

African countries have a responsibility to stop Burundi from sliding further down the precipice and should allow no one, Nkurunziza included, to stop them from accomplishing the noble mission.

“What we want to achieve as Uganda is to see that all forms of killings going on in Burundi – on either the opposition or government side – are stopped immediately”, Uganda’s deputy foreign minister Henry Oryem Okello told the government-run New Vision newspaper.

AU Commission chief Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has written to the UN Security Council asking for “full UN support including the authorisation of a support package” for the force, the AU has said.

“All those whose action could jeopardize the inter-Burundian dialogue, including attacks by armed groups against governmental facilities and other targets, as well as refusal to respond to the invitation of the mediator, shall be subjected to sanctions”, Dlamini-Zuma said in a statement.

The poll was boycotted by some opposition candidate who accused the President of violating the constitution by running for a third term.

A failed coup, continued clashes and gun attacks in the central African state have unsettled a region where memories of the 1994 genocide in neighbouring Rwanda are still raw. Nkurunziza was re-elected in July, in a vote that worldwide observers said was not credible.

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In May, as street protests against Nkurunziza’s third term bid turned violent, a senior army officer announced that Nkurunziza had been removed from power. Over 200,000 people have also been displaced by the conflict.

A Burundian expatriate attends a candlelight vigil held for Burundi in Nairobi Kenya earlier this month