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How long is Africa gonna continue with these senseless coups?Still fighting and killing each other in this day and age over their selfish interests.Burundi is the latest,and by the sound of
things,the chaos that started a few days ago seems to have come to an end.
Leaders of the failed coup in Burundi against 49 year old President Pierre Nkurunziza, have surrendered on Friday ,with an AFP reporter hearing the arrest by telephone.
The coup leaders’ spokesman, Venon Ndabaneze, was speaking to AFP confirming that they
had decided to surrender when loyalist troops arrested him, deputy coup leader Cyrille Ndayirukiye and another senior figure among the mutineers.
The leader of the coup attempt, former intelligence chief General Godefroid Niyombare, also said via telephone that he was surrendering,adding that troops loyal to the president were approaching him.
“We have decided to surrender,”“I hope they won’t kill us,” he added.There have been so many killings,burning,looting and destruction of property as a sresult of the coup and unrest in Burundi.
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| The unrest and chaos caused by the Burundi coup as youths take to the streets. |