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Ghana ready to send troops to Burundi

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    Ghana has expressed readiness to send its troops as part of the “international protection force” to monitor peace in Burundi, Ghanaian defence minister, Kufuor Kwame, told journalists in Bujumbura on Wednesday. The country would send the troops “if the situation stabilised,” Rwandan radio quoted him as saying. Kwame said that he planned to go to South Africa in the “next few days” to hold talks with Burundi peace mediator, Nelson Mandela, concerning the sending of troops to Burundi.

    “Nothing is yet concrete in relation to the troops, because it is a very difficult issue,” it quoted Burundi’s defence minister Cyrille Ndayirukiye as saying. “Meetings have been planned for the near future aimed at initiating discussions on what the mission of the troops will be,” he added.

    Ndayirukiye dismissed as “false rumour” claims that some 10,000-strong international force would be dispatched to protect politicians and would be stationed along Burundi’s border with Tanzania and the DRC. He said the country needed troops to control people’s movements along the two borders.

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