surrendered Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/surrendered/ The low down on African affairs Thu, 14 May 2015 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 surrendered Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/surrendered/ 32 32 Burundi coup plotter arrested https://jjcornish.com/2015/05/burundi-coup-plotter-arrested/ Thu, 14 May 2015 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2015/05/burundi-coup-plotter-arrested/ The army generals who led a rebellion in Burundi have been arrested. They admit the coup mounted against President Pierre Nkurunziza while he was attending a summit in Tanzania has failed. Five of the mutineers died in the fighting following the rebellion. Nkurunziza’s back in the country. Major General Godefroid Niyambere is among the mutineers […]

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]]> The army generals who led a rebellion in Burundi have been arrested.
They admit the coup mounted against President Pierre Nkurunziza while he was attending a summit in Tanzania has failed.
Five of the mutineers died in the fighting following the rebellion.
Nkurunziza’s back in the country.
Major General Godefroid Niyambere is among the mutineers arrested. He told reporters as soldiers
approached that they had decided to surrender because their coup bid has failed. Most of the military support President Pierre Nkurunziza.
Niyambere says he hopes the plotters won’t be killed.
The president said yesterday he would forgive the soldiers who surrendered.
Bujumbura is quiet this morning with most residents staying indoors after a day of fighting between soldiers for and against Nkurunziza.

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