FILE Burundi state radio says Buyoya government overthrown

Описание: (18 Apr 2001)

Bujumbura - 26 August 1998
1. Various of people watching smouldering market after attack
2. Ruined buildings

Bujumbura - 1996
3. View of city
4. Wide of street

Bujumbura - 26 August 1998
5. Soldiers on tarmac
6. Buyoya in airport
7. Buyoya walking on red carpet to plane

Paris - December 2000
7. South African President Nelson Mandela arriving at the International Donor Conference supporting peace in Burundi
8. Various of Pierre Buyoya arriving
9. Various photo op Mandela, Buyoya and Laurent Fabius (French Finance Minister)
10. Various of Mandela, Buyoya and Fabius at press conference
11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Nelson Mandela: "This meeting of international donors seeking to find ways in which the reconstructions and development of Burundi can be assisted would not have taken place if there was not the belief that we have made major advances towards a settlement in that country."
12. Buyoya and Caollisto Madavo (World Bank VP) listening

Bujumbura - 1996
13. Street scene

STORYLINE:

The Burundian army put down a coup attempt on Wednesday by a group of junior army officers opposed to President Pierre Buyoya's negotiations with Hutu rebels, the defence ministry said.

In a statement read on the independent Bonesha radio statement, the army said 30 junior officers in the Tutsi-dominated army were surrounded inside the studios of state-run Radio Burundi.

The announcement was attributed to Minister of Defence Cyrile Ndayirukiye.

Soldiers were stationed around the radio station in downtown Bujumbura, Burundi's capital. Streets were sealed off near the building, but residents walked calmly through downtown, discussing the coup attempt.

No violence was reported.

The president was apparently out of the country at the time.

He is believed to have been in Gabon (ga-BOHN') for peace talks with the leader of the main rebel group fighting the government in the country's more-than seven-year civil war.

Buyoya came to power after staging his own coup in 1996.

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