Burundi Army Stages Coup And Names New President After two days of confusion about who was running the African country of Burundi, its army, dominated by the Tutsi ethnic minority, announced a coup d'etat and installed a new President.

The Burundi Army and Hutu rebels clashed today in the capital, but the army reportedly drove the rebels out.

Some 200,000 more people, mostly Tutsis, have been driven from their homes but remain within the country's borders, living in wretched camps guarded by the Burundi Army, relief officials say.

The rebels, he asserted, killed about 5,000 members of both the Hutu and Tutsi tribes in the north of the country before being driven back across the Akanyaru River into Rwanda by the Burundi Army.

Some Killing Acknowledged The Burundi Army had done some killing, the minister said, but this was only while they were driving off the rebels.

The Tutsi-dominated Burundi Army killed the first democratically elected Hutu President, Melchior Ndadaye.

The convoy, which was to have been escorted by the Burundi Army, would have been the first to enter the area since three Swiss staff members of the Red Cross were killed there last month.

American and other diplomats are also concerned about the hostility of the Burundi Army to any United Nations force.

Outsiders say that the Tutsi-dominated Burundi Army is being harassed by Hutu rebels in the north, and that the soldiers have also committed abuses.

The Tutsi-dominated Burundi Army and Hutu rebels have been fighting battles that included heavy artillery fire along the southeast border with Tanzania, the Tanzanian state radio said today.