{"id":1585,"date":"2017-09-11T13:55:04","date_gmt":"2017-09-11T12:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=1585"},"modified":"2017-09-11T13:55:04","modified_gmt":"2017-09-11T12:55:04","slug":"the-burundian-armys-dangerous-over-reliance-on-peacekeeping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=1585","title":{"rendered":"The Burundian army\u2019s dangerous over-reliance on peacekeeping"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em>Burundi needs international peacekeeping missions to keep its troops paid and happy. Peacekeeping missions need Burundian troops. But for how long?<\/em><\/h3>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>BY\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/africanarguments.org\/author\/richard-moncrieff-and-thierry-vircoulon\/\">RICHARD MONCRIEFF &amp; THIERRY VIRCOULON<\/a><\/em><\/h6>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.crisisgroup.org\/africa\/central-africa\/burundi\/burundi-dangerous-third-term\">crisis<\/a>\u00a0that has engulfed\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/africanarguments.org\/category\/country\/east\/burundi\/\">Burundi<\/a>\u00a0since April 2015 is the result of infighting among a small number of insiders belonging to the ruling party, the CNDD-FDD. Having all fought in the bush together, some of them felt that the president, Pierre Nkurunziza, should make way for others to have a turn at the top job, and refused to accept his plan to rule for life.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/africanarguments.org\/2017\/09\/01\/the-burundian-armys-dangerous-over-reliance-on-peacekeeping\/\">Read more <\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burundi needs international peacekeeping missions to keep its troops paid and happy. Peacekeeping missions need Burundian troops. But for how long? BY\u00a0RICHARD MONCRIEFF &amp; THIERRY VIRCOULON The\u00a0crisis\u00a0that has engulfed\u00a0Burundi\u00a0since April 2015 is the result of infighting among a small number &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=1585\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[377],"class_list":["post-1585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","tag-burundi-international-ruling-party-peacekeeping"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1586,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1585\/revisions\/1586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}