Burundi returns to calm after failed coup

An attempted coup in Burundi appears to have fizzled out after the office of president Pierre Nkurunziza announced he was back in the country and the streets were mostly calm.

Burundi returns to calm after failed coup

An attempted coup in Burundi appears to have fizzled out after the office of president Pierre Nkurunziza announced he was back in the country and the streets were mostly calm.

Along a major route in the south of the country, there were many police checkpoints but otherwise life was going on as normal.

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