On Burundi, Inner City Press asked Six Times Of Mayuyu, Now Repatriated, UN Says

By Matthew Russell Lee, Follow Up On Exclusives

UNITES NATIONS, September 16 -- UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's Spokesman Stephane Dujarric told Inner City Press on August 24 that Burundian Lt. Col. Alfred Mayuyu was deployed to the UN Peacekeeping Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) in July but is being repatriated to Burundi effective immediately. Vine I here.

This followed Dujarric's deputy Farhan Haq on August 5 telling Inner City Press that Mayuyu was not on “any roster” of MINUSCA, video here.

That was false - as was Dujarric's August 24 answer to Inner City Press, see below. But on September 16, Dujarric told Inner City Press, Vine here, UN transcript here:

 "I know, Matthew, you had been asking about Lieutenant Colonel Alfred Mayuyu, and I can tell you that it is my understanding that he was repatriated from MINUSCA (United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic) this morning."