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Re:Use of nuclear technology gets green light in Rwanda by grecy on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @10:51PM (#23559322)
I spent a month in Rwanda in late 2018, and it's an extremely impressive little country.

It fascinates me that we hear so little of them, our media only wanting to bring us the gripping headlines (which are of course all bad)

- By far and away the cleanest country I've ever been to on the planet (WAY better than Canada/USA/Australia)

- They have a thriving tech sector, developing phone apps, hardware and other software that is in use all over East Africa

- Extremely well educated, kind and considerate population. The young people especially were very eager to speak English and discuss the outside world. They knew more about a ton of stuff than I do (just a simple Software Engineer / traveller)

- Their economy is booming.

I wish them all the best!

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Re:Use of nuclear technology gets green light in Rwanda by stephenhuey on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @11:14PM (#23559436)
My trip was in 2014 and I concur with how clean and beautiful it is. In addition to the capital being an impressive city, another amazing opportunity awaiting you there is visiting mountain gorillas. I just uploaded a video of my experience a few days ago:

https://vimeo.com/stephenhuey/gorillas

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Re:Use of nuclear technology gets green light in Rwanda by grecy on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @11:16PM (#23559450)
It's half the price in Uganda!

Here's me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1vhZ03OKKE

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