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Land of a thousand hills

Posted by: Martin Leach, Posted on: 5 March 2009 - Categories: Africa

The airport advertising boards declare that Rwanda is ‘The Land of a Thousand Hills’, and that’s just what it looked like from the plane as I descended into Kigali, the capital city. I could see green hills dotted with numerous …

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The boxes have gone

Posted by: Martin Leach, Posted on: 27 February 2009 - Categories: Africa, Humanitarian

‘Where’s Rwanda, then?’ asked Terry the packer as he loaded my seven cardboard boxes into his red van.  We looked at a map of central Africa and found the small landlocked country, wedged between its giant neighbours the Democratic Republic …

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