Novotel Bujumbura

... with rebel groups. That didn't sound very promising.   "And then" he said "the rebels have been shelling even Bujumbura." That sounded even less promising. The government made some promises in their negotiations with the rebels it hasn't kept the ...

... the way in, I asked the driver about the situation in the country. "Everything is calm" he assured me. "No rockets falling on Bujumbura?" I asked. "You were here when that was happening?" he asked with a big grin. "No there is no problem now" he went on " ...

... some aid workers had been murdered recently in Burundi, and so I had told them earlier via e-mail that my traveling outside Bujumbura was conditional on a reasonable risk assessment. They had written back to say "we don't have anything to worry about we're ...

... Jesus said He would be in the heart of the earth.   The air conditioning is kept barely functioning during the day at the Novotel, and the windows won't open, so it warmed up quite a bit in the room during the hours that we talked. I was wet with ...