Regional leaders want Burundi to accept AU troops

Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza (pictured) will have some explaining to do when the East African Community (EAC) heads of state meet in an extraordinary Summit in Dar es Salaam on May 13, The Citizen has learnt.

A group of Kenyan MPs have accused East African leaders of doing little to help end the ongoing crisis in Burundi that has resulted in bloodshed and deaths.

South Sudan President Salva Kiir and his arch-rival rebel chief Riek Machar said Monday they accepted mutual responsibility for a 10-month civil war in which thousands of people have been killed.

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Uganda is to deploy 736 troops, an equivalent of a battalion, to the East African intervention force for rapid response to regional conflicts, according to State House on Friday.

The African Union will send a 5,000 strong force to stop violence in troubled Burundi, giving Bujumbura a four-day deadline to agree but warning it would send troops anyway.

Heavy fighting breaks out between rival groups of soldiers in Burundi's capital amid confusion about the attempted overthrow of the president.

Burundi’s government said Sunday it would not agree to the deployment of African Union (AU) peacekeepers, warning that they would be seen as “an invasion force”.

The African Union has agreed to send troops to stop violence in Burundi, a senior official said Friday, after talks in which the 54-member bloc warned it would not allow “another genocide”.