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Africa Union peacekeepers man the entrance to the presidential palace February 23, 2009 in the embattled Somalia capital Mogadishu where 11 Burundian AU soldiers were killed, Sunday following a suicide bomb attack by hardline Islamist militia, Shebab. Returning from Djibouti where Somalia President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed had flown to finalise the formation of his government, Sheikh Sharif, a moderate Islamist, expressed sympathy for the deaths of the 11 AU peacekeepers following a suicide bomb attack on the Burundian A.U. soldiers' camp in the embattled capital, adding that the AU peacekeepers had his government's permission to be in Somalia. Hardline Islamist militia Shebab who claimed responsibility for the attack recently called on its fighters to intensify their fight on the AU describing them as invaders.
