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« on: May 13, 2015, 06:50:52 PM »

Seems to be similar in many ways to the recent coup in burkina faso.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/13/burundi-army-officer-says-he-is-dismissing-countrys-president
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« Reply #1 on: May 13, 2015, 07:04:34 PM »

Hopefully this doesn't mean more Hutu-Tutsi violence--I heard tensions were ratcheting up because of the president's decision.
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« Reply #2 on: May 13, 2015, 09:05:21 PM »

Army COS says coup has failed, plotters say they control airport.
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« Reply #3 on: May 13, 2015, 09:21:10 PM »

This is an interesting trend we've seen across Africa in the past year, of popular opposition sucessfully preventing leaders from removing term limits. First Burkina Faso, then the DRC, now Burundi. Strangely enough it's the DRC that seems to have achieved this most peacefully.

Either way one hopes this ends without too much violence and that Burundi (which I think is at the actual bottom of most GDP per capita tables these days) manages to move ahead without Nkuruziza staying on anyway or the military imposing some "roadmap" that "postpones" next month's elections for another year. The best plausible outcome at this point is that the coup fails bUT he gets the message...

One could tie this into a broader trend of anti-incumbency and throw in Nigeria and other places but that might be reaching. Either way it's not one I see happening in Ethiopia (elections are in 10 days and no one seems to care anymore), but am desperately hoping can happen in Ghana next year when the elections are held.
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« Reply #4 on: May 14, 2015, 01:21:38 AM »

Coup plotter is also Hutu, correct?
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« Reply #5 on: May 14, 2015, 01:52:15 PM »

Nkurunziza's back in the country, loyalist military tells BBC they control Bujumbara. France put out a statement earlier urging all parties to continue the electoral process.
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« Reply #6 on: May 14, 2015, 04:25:18 PM »

Putsch leader admits defeat.
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« Reply #7 on: May 14, 2015, 05:56:38 PM »


Wow, that's top 10 in "worst coup attempts ever".
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« Reply #8 on: May 14, 2015, 10:34:51 PM »

Hopefully Nkurunziza takes the anvil-sized hint.
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« Reply #9 on: May 15, 2015, 12:18:04 AM »

Not worse than Bay of Pigs though, certainly.
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« Reply #10 on: May 16, 2015, 01:17:59 AM »


Or the Bayou of Pigs. A half dozen white supremacists try and overthrow the government of a nation of primarily African descent, and don't even get there.
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