However, we hope they may still provide leads for your research. Kigali's streets are smooth, the bomb-craters nowhere to be seen as speeding aid vehicles, flags and stickers waving their humanitarian greetings, rush madly from one meeting to another. There is water and electricity in greater supply than neighbouring countries.
Phones work most of the time.
Streets are well lit and safe. More than 250,000 people live here now, more than half the population of pre-1994 days. Out in the rural areas, the fertile valleys and hills are green, ready for the planting season that is just beginning. Enormous herds of long-horned cattle have returned to clog the undulating hills near Tanzania. Once-deserted villages and roads are filled with people bartering, smoking their pipes, drinking beer in breaks between renovating their homes.