The triangle-shaped fried pastry called a samosa is a favorite snack all over East Africa. In 2011, an armed group in Somalia even banned them, saying the meat inside was going bad. In which small East African country, just south of Rwanda and sitting on the edge of Lake Tanganyika, are samosas also popular?

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Burundi. Samosas are a common East African snack, popular in Somalia, Burundi, and nearby countries like Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, and Ethiopia. In 2011, the extremist group Al-Shabaab banned samosas in parts of Somalia over worries about rotten meat filling.