On a visit to the Great Lakes region, Ambassador Bankole Adeoye, who is the Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace and Security at the African Union, paid tribute to Burundian soldiers who died while on service in Somalia.
In the company of former Burundian President Domitien Ndayizeye, who is now a member of the AU advisory panel, he laid a wreath of flowers on one of the graves AU peace battalion, in recognition of Burundi’s contribution to this mission.
This tribute comes a few weeks after the death of several Burundian soldiers in a terrorist attack on El Baraaf, a base of the AU Transitional Mission in Somalia (ATMIS). The attack left ten soldiers dead, 25 wounded and 50 terrorists killed according to official sources.