third term Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/third-term/ The low down on African affairs Sun, 12 Jul 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 third term Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/third-term/ 32 32 Post election insurgency a Burundi possibility https://jjcornish.com/2015/07/post-election-insurgency-a-burundi-possibility/ Sun, 12 Jul 2015 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2015/07/post-election-insurgency-a-burundi-possibility/ Victory’s a racing certainty for Burundi’s Pierre Nkurunziza in presidential elections next week. But just as likely is that it will be followed by an armed insurgency against his determination unconstitutionally to cling to power. ends intro Pierre Nkurunzia is bent on ignoring warnings at home, in the regional and internationally against seeking a third […]

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But just as likely is that it will be followed by an armed insurgency against his determination unconstitutionally to cling to power.

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Pierre Nkurunzia is bent on ignoring warnings at home, in the regional and internationally against seeking a third mandate.

And generals, who launched an abortive coup last March are equally determined to prise his fingers off the levers of power.

Grenade attacks rip through the capital Bujumbura.

There’s daily fighting in the country torn by civil war until only nine years ago.

Western diplomats warn of a slide back into this conflict.

As Nkurunziza’s lieutenants say that force will be met with force.

 

 

 

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