International Business Times quotes Africa Center Director J. Peter Pham on the potential coup in Burundi:
“The situation is very fluid and dangerous,” said J. Peter Pham, director of the Africa Center at the Atlantic Council, a think tank in Washington, D.C. “If momentum goes one way or the other, units could potentially switch sides. What is loyal today may not be an hour from now.”
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“It remains to be seen what he’s up to,” Pham said in a telephone interview Tuesday. “Is he acting because he feels there’s no other way to resolve this crisis, or is he acting out of frustrated ambition?”
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“Coups in Africa — you can’t paint them with the same brush,” Pham said.