122. Rwanda

I went to Rwanda in 2022 to see the mountain gorillas, who I expected to write about in Living on Earth. It was a short visit, less than a week, but the country made a strong positive impression on me. I decided to write something about it, and began doing background reading. Rwanda has been in the news quite a lot over the last few years, first due to the former UK government’s plan to send asylum seekers there, now because of the outbreak of Marburg virus. The UK controversy was accompanied b...