Somalia: Burundian troops arrive in Mogadishu

(SomaliNet) A military plane which has taken off from the Burundian capital Bujumbura military base landed at Somalia’s Adan Ade international airport on Monday morning.

The troops’ arrival on Monday was the third day when planes laden with Burundian troops in the Somali capital as part of peacekeeping mission in the war strife country Somalia.

The first plane carrying 400 troops landed at Somalia’s Adan Ade international airport on Satruday morning followed by another flight with 450 soldiers, and today with 480 soldiers.

“I cannot give deep details about where the bases of these soldiers would be, but what I can verify you are, that they are part of the peacekeeping forces here in Mogadishu and they are bolstering the current number of AMISOM troops on the ground” said Major Barigye Bahouku the spokesman of AMISOM forces in Somali.

Since the Somali government was established in the neighboring country Kenya in the year 2004 it is merely Uganda and Burundi that have legally contributed troops in Somalia as peacekeeping forces.

Meanwhile, the AU has appealed from the African nations to contribute 8000 soldiers to the war wrecked nation Somalia, but it was only the government of Uganda and the government of Burundi who have instantly dispatched their troops to Somalia.

Somalia has not had effective central government since 1991 when Dictator Mohammed Siyad bare was toppled from power.-Somali News