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Burundi peacekeepers deploy in Somali capital

SABCnews.com "A first contingent of 100 peacekeepers from Burundi deployed in the Somali capital Mogadishu, hours after fighting between Islamist rebels and government forces killed at least four people.

The arrival of the Burundian soldiers in the rubble-strewn city marked the first phase of long-delayed support for 1 600 Ugandan troops who began work in March as the vanguard of a planned 8 000-strong African Union (AU) mission."

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