BURUNDI: BREAKING NEWS: NKURUNZIZA STILL MISSING... THE ATTEMPTED COUP....

Has the coup failed?

Tensions rose in Burundi after a top army official on Wednesday said he had deposed President Pierre Nkurunzinza, who was in Tanzania at the time. Nkurunziza has dismissed the coup, but his current whereabouts are unknown. As night fell on Burundi, there where conflicting reports of Nkurunziza’s whereabouts, with some news organizations reporting the beleaquered leader had landed in Uganda. There was no confirmation of the reports.

EARLY THURSDAY armed forces chief General Prime Niyongabo announced that the coup had failed. “ the attempted coup by General Godefroid Niyombare has been stopped,” Niyongabo said in a radio announcement.

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