AU Burundi

The African Union has failed this past weekend in its plan to send 5,000 peacekeepers to help restore stability to troubled Burundi. Instead the pan-African bloc said it would send an envoy into the country for more talks, despite failure in previous engagements in order to end the conflict. The United Nations has estimated that over 400 people have died and over 200 000 have fled since last April. The UN has also warned that Burundi risks a repeat of the 1993 – 2006 civil war. African Dialogue presenter Benjamin Moshatama spoke to Dr Webster Zambara, senior project leader at the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation, Liesl Louw-Vauldran journalist and Africa analyst and Carina Tertsakian Senior Researcher of the Africa division at Human Rights Watch.