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Burundi: Coup against President Nkurunziza
By This Is Africa on May 13, 2015 — According to Reuters, Army Gen. Godefroid Niyombareh announced on radio that Nkurunziza has been "dismissed" and that a national salvation committee had been set up to run the country.
The news that Nkurunziza might have been deposed is being greeted with jubiliation, Nsengiyumva , a former member of an EU electoral monitoring team, told CNN by phone from Bujumbura.
“We have observed many people just shouting of joy and dancing in the streets,” Claver said. People had come from areas in the hills surrounding the capital to join in the celebrations, he said.
And soldiers had been able to reopen two private radio stations that had been closed by the government, he said.
But Claver, too, had heard reports of gunfire — near the national radio and TV stations, he said — and he warned it was too soon to conclude that the coup attempt had been successful. Nkurunziza has been seeking a third term, something prohibited by the agreement that ended the country’s 1993-2003 civil war. Protesters determined to prevent his candidacy have demonstrated in Bujumbura, the capital, and have been met with deadly force by police.
Source: CNN
By This Is Africa on May 13, 2015 — According to Reuters, Army Gen. Godefroid Niyombareh announced on radio that Nkurunziza has been "dismissed" and that a national salvation committee had been set up to run the country.
The news that Nkurunziza might have been deposed is being greeted with jubiliation, Nsengiyumva , a former member of an EU electoral monitoring team, told CNN by phone from Bujumbura.
“We have observed many people just shouting of joy and dancing in the streets,” Claver said. People had come from areas in the hills surrounding the capital to join in the celebrations, he said.
And soldiers had been able to reopen two private radio stations that had been closed by the government, he said.
But Claver, too, had heard reports of gunfire — near the national radio and TV stations, he said — and he warned it was too soon to conclude that the coup attempt had been successful. Nkurunziza has been seeking a third term, something prohibited by the agreement that ended the country’s 1993-2003 civil war. Protesters determined to prevent his candidacy have demonstrated in Bujumbura, the capital, and have been met with deadly force by police.
Source: CNN
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