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Our first night at Virunga Lodge (Volcanoes Safaris) in Rwanda, there were so many stars in the sky. I had never seen anything like it. I had to get up super early for a gorilla trek the next day, so I decided to set up my camera outside while I slept.
I set a 30-minute timer so I could finish getting ready for bed and not cast any excess light into the frame, and not wanting to completely drain the battery, I set the intervalometer for 120 photos at 30-seconds each. I only had two batteries, so draining one right before a who-knows-how-long hike wasn't my first choice.
Although not completely devoid of light pollution: fire, lanterns, and lightbulbs from villager's dwellings on the hills above Lake Burera, I think I got a pretty rad vertical trail. I'm sitting just under one degree from the equator, with my camera facing east, and I think that explains the very straight "top-bottom" pattern. Also, at only 120 frames, this isn't the most photos I've used to create a star trail, but the length of the trails looks much longer than images I've composed using roughly the same amount.
The Earth. Ha! Who knew?
Portrait Rwandan man lake Kibuye .
Taking this photo caused me a multitude of problems , the plain clothes police came to my hotel room in the middle of the night , asking many questions ..........why was I taking pictures of the locals ? The questions went on for a couple of hours , then next morning they returned telling me I must delete all images .
A L'Hoest's monkey in the Nyungwe Forest National Park.
They have a dark coat and can be distinguished by a characteristic white beard.
Getting Under The Skin .
Tiny landlocked Rwanda has 340 people per square kilometre .
Portrait Rwandan women .
A make-shift camp in the French-protected area in Gikongoro.
27 July 1994
Gikongoro, Rwanda
Photo # 78959
A boy weeding in front of his parents restaurant in Gaharawe center, Rubavu district western province of Rwanda, this is how the countryside restaurant advertise their products with leather hanged upon a stick to show the clients that they have sheep's meats.
Kinihira Hospital gets Chinese healthcare support
September 30, 2013
The Chinese Ambassador to Rwanda Shen Yong-xiang last week toured Kinihira Hospital in Rulindo District as he seeks ways of improving health and strengthening technical cooperation between Rwanda and China.
The ambassador was accompanied by a team of 16 specialist doctors, including surgeons and gynecologists, among others, who will be operating in the hospital.
As part of the visit, the team donated equipment valued at Rwf4.3 million. The donation included medicine, traditional Chinese therapy, theatre appliances and dental instruments.
Amb. Shen said the visit symbolises the healthy cooperation between Rwanda and China, adding that the doctors would closely work with the hospital to improve healthcare.
“Despite the distance between our countries, the Chinese and Rwandan people have kept close ties through exchange programmes since forging diplomatic ties in 1971,” Amb. Shen said.
The visit was also in the spirit of marking the 50th anniversary of Chinese medical teams working on the African continent and the 30th year in Rwanda.
The Governor of Northern Province, Aime Bosenibamwe, said the initiative will boost local healthcare practitioners.
“This will help Rwandan doctors share professional experience with their Chinese counterparts,” Bosenibamwe said.
Chinese medicine
Abdul Utumatwishima, the hospital director, said it is a symbol of improving the already existing services and gaining more experience by learning the use of Chinese traditional medicine.
“When you work as a team with doctors who are more experienced, it definitely adds value and the services get better,” Utumatwishima said.
He said the Chinese medicine is “unique and exceptional” because no drug is given to a patient, instead only miniature needles are used (acupuncture).
Acupuncture is applied to patients who suffer from paralysis-related diseases, which, according hospital officials, affects muscles, backbone or the vertebra.
The hospital started a year ago and has six general practitioners and 40 nurses. It receives at least 900 patients a month.
The New Times
I wanted to capture the energy and enthusiasm of the Rwandan Intore dance troupe that performed for us at the the Mountain Gorillas Nest lodge, and I think this shot really captures that. The expressions and enormous jumps work well here, but what's missing is the sense of their elasticity, and of course... the music! Continued...
I am not disposed to using flash, but this time I resorted to slow sync fill flash, and was pleasantly surprised how well the cam and the flash calculated exposures and intensity respectively. All the more impressive when considering I shot at 5 frames per second!
* This photo is used by the United Nations Environment Programme.
. . . . My thanks to Meaduva for mentioning it.
* This photo is also used by the New World Encyclopedia
Video: youtu.be/c7T79Ebo89Y
A protest, organised by the recently formed group Stroud District Together with Refugees, took place outside the Subscription Rooms on Monday evening.
Around 70 people gathered on the Sub Rooms forecourt, with plaques and banners, and staged a 30-minute silent vigil opposing Government plans to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda. A similar protest was held in June.
Leader of Stroud District Council, Cllr Catherine Braun (Green, Wotton-under-Edge) later addressed the protestors, saying: “I think the policy is horrendous and there are no legal and safe ways for people to claim asylum in the UK and if legal and safe routes existed, desperate people who are fleeing violence, conflict and persecution would take them and they would not risk their lives embarking on dangerous journeys like crossing the channel, so the most important thing is that the government sets up safe and legal ways for people who are in need of refuge to come to the United Kingdom.”
Caroline Beatty, one of the organisers, said: “We are holding this vigil today because it’s the first day of the High Court hearing to decide the legality of the government policy to transport people to Rwanda. It’s going to take five days as far as we know and then there’ll be a second hearing in October. We’re horrified that they appear to be going ahead without even knowing if it’s legal or not.
“There will be people all over the country who are showing their deep concern about this. I think it needs to be exposed for what it is, and I was looking at the definitions of smuggling and trafficking – people smuggling is the action or practise of illegally transporting people from one country to another and that is what the government policy may well turn out to be, a form of people smuggling – nationally and internationally sanctioned.
“I think the government is playing a very strange game and it’s horrible, but they’re kind of legitimising the very behaviour that they claim to be trying to stop.”
Cllr Braun added: “It’s just so great to see the number of people who’ve turned out on a Monday evening to be part of a National Day of Action here in Stroud. This is a new group, Stroud District Together with Refugees, which has been set up just in response to this new policy around deportation of asylum seekers to Rwanda.
“People feel very strongly about it. I think the Conservative Party have really timed this wrong. They haven’t captured the mood of the country. People want to welcome refugees to our country and to provide them with safe and legal routes to apply – we see how people have opened their homes to Ukrainian refugees during the war.
“I think most people in this country would like to see ways for people to safely claim refuge in the United Kingdom.”
A make-shift camp for refugees who fled the fighting and are now being protected by United Nations Assistance Mission in Rwanda (UNAMIR) French troops in Gikongoro.
27 July 1994
Gikongoro, Rwanda
Photo # 78960
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Rwandan President Paul Kagame
Photo: Kobi Gideon, GPO
ראש הממשלה בנימין נתניהו ונשיא רואנדה פול קגאמה במהלך פגישתם במשכן הנשיא בקיגאלי.
צילום: קובי גדעון / לע"מ