Unsuccessful interference in Burundi

Football and politics do not go together hand in hand, but the next story tells us quite the opposite. Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter said that the Swiss foreign ministry requested from him to overthrow an African president.
Last year the civil war in Burundi took over 400 people with thousands fleeing the country. In order to stop that Blatter made contact with the Burundi president Pierre Nkurunziza who was planning to run for the third term. In exchange for his candidacy, the Swiss offered him ambassador role in FIFA. Nkurunziza is a known football lover: he owns a side - Hallelujah FC, and he was also a coach of an Burundian first national division. As the coup was not successful Nkurunziza, who declined the offer, was re-elected for a third term in July, so the whole deal working at FIFA was off. Swiss foreign ministry did not confirm Blatter's claim. The intervention was supported by USA and some Western countries, Nkurunziza's office said and admitted that the president and the Swiss have indeed met each other last May. All this is explained (thoroughly) at the latest biography book from the Swiss 'Sepp Blatter, mission and passion football'.
At the end, the president is still at his new (old) position while Blatter has been removed from football for six years.