EDITORIAL: Oh no, they’ve let Burundi’s people down again
African leaders have let down the people of Burundi by abandoning their earlier resolution to send troops to Burundi to stop the continued targeted killings and the flow of refugees to neighbouring countries.
Their reasoning, as it unfolded at the recently concluded African Union Heads of State Summit in Addis Ababa, was that since President Pierre Nkurunziza has refused to allow the deployment of peacekeepers, the AU needs to first send a high-level delegation to continue consultations on possible deployment.
