A partnership between the Anglican Church of Burundi and the United Nations’ children’s agency Unicef is helping to tackle poverty and strengthen peace by financing small-scale cross-community agricultural projects. It comes at a time that the UN warns that the troubled country has been plunged into “civil unrest, growing insecurity, indiscriminate violence and sharp economic deterioration.”

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