The Burundian troops serving in Somalia under AMISOM have received 20 combat vehicles as contingent-owned equipment to its troops. The fleet of armored personnel carriers to reinforce ongoing counter-terror operations in Somalia.
The fresh batch of the armored vehicles will offer reinforcement to AMISOM whose contributing countries have to keep replacing their equipment due to attacks by al Shabaab as well as operating in harsh terrain.
Ambassador Madeira, who is also the Head of AMISOM, has maintained that the military hardware would boost AMISOM’s capacity to combat terrorism while ensuring the safety of the soldiers.
Burundian troops alongside other forces from Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Uganda, are deployed in Somalia under a UN Security Council mandate to support the Somali security forces to defeat al Shabaab and Islamic State terrorist groups.
