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Burundi endures ‘worst economic crisis in a country not at war’

Central African nation struggles to emerge from poverty and conflict as president promises reform

Amisia Aleko, who lives in the poorest area of the main city of the world’s poorest country, smiles when recalling the last time she and her four children ate animal protein.

“We ate some fish in 2019. That was a good day,” said 40-year-old Aleko in Buterere, on the outskirts of Bujumbura in the landlocked African nation of Burundi.

“Now, every once in a while, we eat peanuts. This is worse than before,” she said, describing her family’s diet of one meal a day of renga renga, a stew of leafy vegetables. A few steps away, residents search for scraps of food at a rubbish dump.

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