{"id":14554,"date":"2015-12-18T13:23:47","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T11:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=14554"},"modified":"2015-12-18T13:23:47","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T11:23:47","slug":"au-force-proposed-for-burundi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2015\/12\/18\/au-force-proposed-for-burundi\/","title":{"rendered":"AU force &#8216;proposed for Burundi&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reports from Addis Ababa say African Union officials have approved a draft plan to send peacekeepers to protect civilians in Burundi, even without the government&#8217;s consent.<\/p>\n<p>The Reuters news agency quoted one diplomat as saying that the deployment of a 5,000-strong force had been approved by the AU&#8217;s Peace and Security Council.<\/p>\n<p>But the decision will need UN approval, and the presidents of AU members countries would have to authorise any deployment against Burundi&#8217;s wishes.<\/p>\n<p>The UN says at least 400 people have been killed in Burundi since President Pierre Nkurunziza&#8217;s decision in April to stand for a third term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reports from Addis Ababa say African Union officials have approved a draft plan to send peacekeepers to protect civilians in Burundi, even without the government&#8217;s consent. The Reuters news agency quoted one diplomat as saying that the deployment of a 5,000-strong force had been approved by the AU&#8217;s Peace and Security Council. But the decision [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}