lake kivu

playing or praying

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February 7th 2010
it's been a great weekend, i got up at the crack of dawn on saturday to get the bus to Lake Kivu in the west.... which is apparently one of the world's biggest lakes by volume or something like that. anyway we managed to get a bus at 8am and what a journey we had!!! Rwanda is named the land of a thousand hills and seemingly the east where i'm living doesn't host many of them and they're all in t ... read more

Africa » Rwanda » Province de L'Ouest

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In 1959, three years before independence from Belgium, the majority ethnic group, the Hutus, overthrew the ruling Tutsi king. Over the next several years, thousands of Tutsis were killed, and some 150,000 driven into exile in neighboring countries. T... ... read more