Somali rebels killed six Burundian peacekeepers during an offensive against insurgents, Burundi's army said on Thursday, one of the force's heaviest losses in a single day. The peacekeepers died in fighting in the Somalian capital Mogadishu on Wednesday.
They were supporting Somali government troops who seized three militant bases along the city's industrial road that leads to the Bakara market, one of the main strongholds of the al Shabaab militant group. Horn of Africa experts say the peacekeeping force, known as AMISOM, is all that prevents the rebels from toppling the UN-backed interim government that has struggled to quash the four-year insurgency. Somalia's Defence Minister Abdihakim Haji Fiqi said on Wednesday the sites regained by government forces included a defence ministry building and a milk factory.
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