{"id":17310,"date":"2019-02-19T05:13:59","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T05:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mustaqbalradio.net\/?p=17310"},"modified":"2019-02-19T05:13:59","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T05:13:59","slug":"burundi-somali-presidents-discuss-security-amidst-amisom-withdrawal-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/so\/burundi-somali-presidents-discuss-security-amidst-amisom-withdrawal-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Burundi, Somali presidents discuss security amidst AMISOM withdrawal plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Burundi\u2019s president Pierre Nkurunziza hosted a state banquet in honour of his Somali counterpart, Mohamed Farmaajo, who is in the East African nation on an official visit.<\/p>\n<p>The visit comes at a time when Burundi has been asked to withdraw up to 1,000 of its troops from Somalia.<\/p>\n<p>Burundi is one of the African nations that contribute troops to the United Nations and African Union funded peacekeeping mission in Somalia.<\/p>\n<p>According to Somali\u2019s presidency, the two heads of state are expected to hold bilateral talks focused on \u2018strengthening cooperation on security and expanding trade and economic partnerships\u2019.<\/p>\n<h2>Burundi troops to leave Somalia this month<\/h2>\n<p>Burundi\u2019s soldiers are expected to leave Somalia by the end of this month, even though local authorities worry about the security implications.<\/p>\n<p>The president of HirShabelle state in Somalia, Mohamed Abdi Waare, warned against a rushed withdrawal plan, saying it could leave his state vulnerable to attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Burundi troops operating under\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">AMISOM<\/span>\u00a0have their main base in Jowhar, the administrative capital of HirShabelle State.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe transition plan is finally becoming a reality and there are painful decisions that have to be taken,\u201d President Waare observed.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Africanews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burundi\u2019s president Pierre Nkurunziza hosted a state banquet in honour of his Somali counterpart, Mohamed Farmaajo, who is in the East African nation on an official visit. The visit comes at a time when Burundi has been asked to withdraw up to 1,000 of its troops from Somalia. Burundi is one of the African nations&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17311,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17310"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mustaqbalmedia.net\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}