Latest Burundi news are all about the coup going on in the African country, including how its government is calling the uprising a "joke," CNN News reported My 14. 

Residents of Burundi, called Burundians, awoke to a May 14 morning that is full of tension, chaos and confusion. The night before, the country's Army General Godefroid Niyombareh said in a radio interview that Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza has been ousted, a statement that further escalated the unrest in the country, which started April 25 when Nkurunziza announced that he will run for presidency again - his third term and 10th year in power. 

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"Given the necessity to preserve the country's integrity... the President Pierre Nkunrunziza is dismissed from his functions," said Niyombareh, according to Mirror (U.K.).  

The army general's statement, a known ally of the president, has Burundians deciding to stay indoors and listen to the news. 

"People are staying indoors, not moving.... The faces of the people -- they are very scared. No one knows what is going on. Either it is a coup or not, no one knows," Gad Ngajimana, a resident of the capital of Bujumbura told CNN. 

Ngajimana added that people in the country are relying on international news to know what has happened to the president, who attended a summit on May 13 in Tanzania, east of its border. 

Burundian government spokesman, Willy Nyamitwe, was quoted by CNN as saying that reports of a coup are "a joke." It was also reported that the Office of the President received word that some soldiers have declared an "imaginary" coup. 

Since April 26, it has been reported by various news outlets that there have been over 20 deaths related to the unrest, tens of thousands have been displaced and airports and borders of the Southeast African nations have been blocked, BBC News reported. 

The United Nations, according to CNN, believes that about 70,000 Burindians have moved to neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania and Rwanda. 

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