Arrests Linked to Failed Coup in Burundi

Burundi’s government arrested at least 17 people Saturday in connection with a failed coup attempt to overthrow the country's president a day earlier. The arrests included at least three generals and two police commissioners. A presidential spokesman told VOA's Gabe Joselow that the leader of the coup attempt, General Godefroid Niyombare, remained at large.  Also Saturday, about 100 demonstrators in the east African nation’s capital of Bujumbura protested President...

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