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Sample portions of chicken and kale stew over rice

Maine’s largest school district serves up African-inspired dishes to get more students excited about school lunch

Food

In Portland, Maine, high schools are infusing North African flavors into school lunches as the district experiments with being more inclusive of its diverse student body.

A man wearing a protective face mask and hat walks past the London Stock Exchange Group building

OECD predicts worst non-wartime recession in 100 years; Britain marks 2 months without burning coal for electricity

Top of The World
Members of a teenage robotics team from the African nation of Burundi, who were reported missing after taking part in an international competition, are seen in pictures released by the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, DC, July 20, 2017.

Six teens on Burundi robotics team go missing in US, two seen in Canada

Global Politics
These women spend part of their days running a café and another part reporting on government killings.

These women run a cafe by day, and risk their lives to report on their government’s killings by night

Conflict
Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza bids farewell to his South African counterpart Jacob Zuma as he departs at the airport after an Africa Union-sponsored dialogue in an attempt to end months of violence in the capital Bujumbura, February 27, 2016.

Burundi schoolkids deface portraits to defy president

Conflict
A watch from Fonderie 47.

How old guns are turned into beautiful new jewelry

Conflict

An innovative company is trying to recycle old guns into designer watches — and they’re having some success.

Burundi refugee camp

Burundi’s last civil war killed 300,000. A new one is coming

Conflict

Once again, Burundi is spiraling toward civil war.

Alexis Sinduhije, Samantha Power and Bryan Rich at the Committee to Protect Journalists awards in 2004

Burundi exile to US’s Samantha Power: ‘You shake the hand of the killers’

Conflict

He used to be friends with Samantha Power, the US ambassador to the United Nations. But now a former Burundian journalist is sanctioned by Washington for advocating violence.

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, and Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza speak to the press in Gitega, Burundi.

US Ambassador Samantha Power: ‘The match could be laid’ to ignite Burundi conflict

Conflict

Burundi’s leader seems hellbent on dragging his country into more ethnic violence.

A woman mourns after her son was killed during gunfire in Burundi's capital Bujumbura, December 12, 2015. At least 87 people have been killed in fighting in the last week.

Why Burundi is not Rwanda

Conflict

Burundi is edging toward civil war, according to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. Meanwhile, the African Union has warned that Africa should “not allow another genocide to take place on its soil.”