AU ready to deploy East African Standby Force to Burundi

mchambawima1 · 2015-12-18T08:08:45+00:00

17/12 16:07 CET | updated xx mn ago | updated at 17/12 - 21:15 1450383303 1450364842 smaller_textlarger_text "Africa will not allow another genocide to take place on its soil." The African Union Commission could deploy a standby force to Burundi to prevent a ?genocide? in the wake of escalating violence in the country. A plan to call on the East African Standby Force as a contingency measure was discussed at the 565th African Union Commission Peace and Security Council meeting in Addis Ababa on Thursday, December 17. Members of the Peace and Security Council (PSC) led by the director of the Peace and Security Department, El-Ghassim Wane, raised the urgent need for action to stop the killings in Burundi. The PSC jointly agreed that ?Africa will not allow another genocide to take place on its soil.? Meanwhile, the African Union Commissioner for Peace and Security, Ambassador Smail Chergui said on his Twitter page that there was ?a very clear message coming out of the ongoing PSC meeting: the killings in Burundi must stop immediately.? The PSC is preparing a final communique. Eighty seven people were killed in clashes in Burundi on Friday as part of a ?sweep operation?, according to the Burundian army.

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Start date Dec 18, 2015

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