Burundi Threatens to Withdraw Somalia Troops Over Non-Payment
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Burundi will next month begin withdrawing its troops deployed with an African Union peacekeeping force in Somalia unless they receive months of unpaid wages, President Pierre Nkurunziza said.
“The Burundian government has written to the African Union to announce that if the non-payment situation with our troops continues, we are ready to withdraw them from Somalia starting from January,” Nkurunziza told reporters Friday in Rutana, about 95 kilometers (58 miles) southeast of the capital, Bujumbura.