The flag of Burundi, whose capital has changed from Bujumbura to Gitega.
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What’s Burundi’s Capital City and Why Did It Change?

ByAdam Watts

What’s Burundi’s capital city? Weirdly, the answer to that requires a whole blog post, so here goes. Burundi, a landlocked country in Africa which I’m pretty sure you couldn’t place on a map, has a new capital city: Gitega. I’ll repeat that to help it sink in, and help you learn something today. The new…

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The 5 Discounts Offered by Street Hawkers

ByAdam Watts

Street hawkers, also known as street sellers, street vendors, and the most godforsaken spawn of satan ever to walk the earth, are rampant in Morocco, especially the main tourist cities of Marrakech and Fez. At first I was polite, then turned to ignoring them, then I noticed something: these street traders kept coming back to the same rehearsed…