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Bangui

Fortuné, 16, used to have a spaghetti-and-coffee kiosk in Bangui. But it was dismantled one night. So now he's pinning his dreams on his singing group.
Music
A teenager from the Central African Republic puts his faith in Divine Efficiency
Fortuné gets up at 4 a.m. to prepare homemade spaghetti, which he starts selling at his stand at 6 a.m.
Development
Fortuné’s big dreams and small spaghetti business
Global Scan
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Muslim men organized in militias with machetes rough up a Christian man while checking him for weapons in the Miskine neighborhood of Bangui, Central African Republic.
Conflict & Justice
A photographer captures the violence in the streets of the Central African Republic
A French military sniper readies his rifle in Bangui.
Conflict & Justice
Religion is not the real issue in the Central African Republic’s conflict
Global Scan
Mandela brings people together, even in death
Central African Republic
Conflict & Justice
UN peacekeepers are heading into the Central African Republic
Central African Republic
Conflict & Justice
‘The worst crisis most people have never heard of’ is in the Central African Republic
An ex-Seleka soldier stands guard in Bossangoa, Central African Republic.
Conflict & Justice
France reasserts itself in Africa, with fresh troops to a troubled Central African Republic
Arts, Culture & Media
Outrage Over Soldiers Killed in Central African Republic
Global Politics
Bibi Tanga: Son of a Diplomat Grooves with The Selenites