Situation Report: Burundi Update: A New Hat for AMIB? Henri Boshoff

The cease-fire agreement signed in November 2003 between the transitional government of Burundi (TgoB) and the National Council for the Defence of Democracy-Forces for the Defence of Democracy (CNDD- FDD), was generally seen as marking a decisive turn in the peace process, creating the necessary conditions for a United Nations mission to take over the African Union’s Mission in Burundi (AMIB). This was certainly the view expressed by Mr Jacob Zuma, Deputy President of South Africa and Facilitator of the Burundi peace process during a briefing to the United Nations’ Security Council on 4 December 2003.