Burundi scoffs at rebels, telling new force it 'won’t last long'

Burundi said Thursday it would swiftly crush rebels after they announced they had joined forces to oust President Pierre Nkurunziza following months of bloodshed in the troubled central African country.

"It won't last long," presidential press chief Willy Nyamitwe told AFP of the rebels, who have called themselves the Republican Forces of Burundi, or "Forebu" from its name in French.