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Burundi lies at the northern tip of Lake Tanganyika. Employment is mainly in agriculture. It was a long standing monarchy which became German then Belgian after 1918. It gained independent republic status in 1965.
Rwanda Population: 10 million. Languages: French, English, Kinyarwanda and Kiswahili. Main religions: Christian, traditional.
Link man CBM activities Annual visits have been made since 1995. Ecclesias (Rwanda) Kigali (7 members); (Burundi) Bujumbura; small groups in isolation at Muyinga and Buganda (about 30 members in total). |
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Rwanda lies to the east of Lake Kivu and to the south
of Uganda. Most of the people are occupied in subsistence agriculture and the cultivation of
coffee, tea and cotton. It is the third largest world producer of pyrethrum. It was under
Belgian administration until 1962 and was locked in bitter tribal warfare in 1994.