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The United Nations Security Council Resolution 2628 has authorized the African Union Peace and Security Council to reconfigure AMISOM and replace it with the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS), with effect from 1 April 2022.

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Soldiers of the Burundi National Defence Forces serving with AMISOM begun a rotation of troops 26 August at Aden Abdulle International Airport. A battalion of BNDF who have served a one-year deployment as part of the AU mission in Somalia are being replaced by a new group of forces who begun their own 12 month tour of duty upon their arrival in the Somali capital Mogadishu. AU-UN IST PHOTO / STUART PRICE.

Soldiers of the Burundi National Defence Forces serving with AMISOM begun a rotation of troops 26 August at Aden Abdulle International Airport. A battalion of BNDF who have served a one-year deployment as part of the AU mission in Somalia are being replaced by a new group of forces who begun their own 12 month tour of duty upon their arrival in the Somali capital Mogadishu.
AU-UN IST PHOTO / STUART PRICE.

The Burundi contingent is the second largest within AMISOM with 5,432 troops. The country was also the second to deploy troops into Somalia, its first soldiers having arrived in Mogadishu in December 2007.

Based in Baidoa and commanded by Col. Jean Luc Habarugira, the contingent is primarily responsible for operations in Sector 3, which covers Bay and Bakool regions but also maintains troops in Sector 1 where they work closely with the Ugandan forces.

Burundi has so far sent six battle groups in Somalia and has provided three Deputy Force Commanders. Lt. General Silas Ntigurirwa from Burundi is the AMISOM Force Commander. He recently took the command of mission from Lt. Gen. Andrew Gutti from Uganda.