Major General Godefroid Niyombare

These are the rebel groups RED-Tabara run by exiled Burundian politician Alexis Sinduhije and the Forces Populaires de Burundi run by the leader of the failed 2015 putsch in Burundi Major General Godefroid Niyombare (AC Vol 56 No 17 Hardliners to the fore)...

Godefroid Niyombare are in Kigali...

Godefroid Niyombare (AC Vol 56 No 10 The military moves against Nkurunziza's third-term bid)...

The announcement by ex-Chief of the Army Staff Major General Godefroid Niyombare on 13 May that he and a group of senior officers had overthrown President Pierre Nkurunziza was met with jubilation by crowds in the streets of Bujumbura...

This came shortly after the president had dismissed Major General Godefroid Niyombare head of the intelligence service the Service national des renseignements (SNR)...