Hotel Botanika Bujumbura
Bld. de l'UPRONA No. 9 Bujumbura, Burundi
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Last day in Kigali - night flight to Bujumbura
Yesterday morning Mr. Mundeli came to the hotel for an administrative work day. My visits to Rwanda only come two or three times a year, and there are some decisions to be made, questions to be answered and plans to formulate that are best handled in person where direct give-and-take discussion and analysis can occur.
Sitting on the hotel …
Rumors of war
I received some sobering news today. Yesterday afternoon or evening, local sources vary, rebel soldiers, probably FLN ( Forces of National Liberation) attacked a bar linked to the current government and randomly killed about 40 people with AK-47s and grenades. The first information I had put the location at 15 or 20 miles from Bujumbura, but in now …
Expedition to Mugina
Last night and this morning I checked the security advisories for Burundi. There were no new or updated travel warnings, and other than the attack on Sunday which was meant to send a particular message, the most recent violence had been several months ago. The French government warns to be especially alert in Bujumbura and in Cibitoke province …
Last day in Burundi
I'm back in Bujumbura after a long day up north. And this day will not be over soon.
Moïse arrived at the hotel as I was checking out of my room this morning. I left my luggage with the desk and we started north once again. We picked Nathan up at same place on the outskirts of Bujumbura and moved on.
Nothing unusual happened on …
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Bumby Beds
... woke me and the
chicken up. The chicken must have been mixed up by all the lightning in the sky
and every 30 minutes on the dot he started his morning song anew. As soon as L. our cleaner entered I asked him
to silence the creature which he did.
Another
clinic has been renamed for the good meatballs they always feed us, the Ikea recipes
are still in use even many years after the Swedish Pentecostals from there
returned home. ...


