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Burundi President

Insurgents kill 7 Burundian peacekeepers

Burundi government has confirmed seven Burundian peacekeepers dead in an ambush by Al-Shabab insurgents in Somalia.

Al-Shabab carried out a mortar and landmine attack on the troops as they were travelling yesterday on a road linking the town of Jowhar to Balad in middle of Shabelle region.

Burundian troops are in Somalia as part of an African Union force fighting the Al-Qaeda-linked militants in Somalia.

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