EU Threatens To Cut Burundi’s Peacekeeping Mission In Somalia Funding; Pressure Government Into Dialogue

March 29, 2016: The European Union has announced plans to cut back its funding to Burundi’s peacekeeping contingent in Somalia in a bid to force President Pierre Nkurunziza’s arm into talks with the opposition. Burundi has a 5400- strong contingent is Somalia’s AMISOM earns the country an estimated $13 million a year and its soldiers...