Burundian Coup Plotters Held as President Nkurunziza Returns
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President Pierre Nkurunziza returned to Burundi as a coup announced by his former intelligence chief appeared to fail.
The general who announced the coup on Wednesday, Godefroid Niyombare, has been arrested along with two others involved in the plot, presidential spokesman Willy Nyamitwe said Friday by phone from Bujumbura, the capital. Although he said Nkurunziza would address the nation at 11 a.m. local time, the president had yet to issue a statement almost two hours later.