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| Army rifts could push Burundi back to conflict after coup bid |
| 2015-05-15 |
| [REUTERS] Crowds cheered and hugged soldiers on the streets of Burundi's capital when a general announced he had sacked the president for seeking an unconstitutional third term, but celebrations were quickly quashed when another general said the coup had failed. The crisis has highlighted alarming divisions in Burundi's patchwork military, a symbol of reconciliation as it absorbed one-time enemies that now risks being torn apart by rivalries in a nation still scarred by an ethnically fueled civil war a decade ago. President Pierre Nkurunziza's loyalists insist the coup was hatched by a small group of soldiers led by Major General Godefroid Niyombare, the intelligence chief who was sacked in February. Niyombare has insisted he has other generals with him. |
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