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Katie G
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Words + Photographs.
Brit in Rwanda.

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September 20, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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I can’t stop thinking about this article from @thecontinent.org

‘She (Angelique Nyirasafari) noted that boys continue with school even when they cause pregnancies.’
August 31, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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It’s German Shepherd Day, apparently, so have a Stevie.
May 10, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Saturday Cricket at Gahanga Stadium, Kigali, featuring Jasper the scorekeeper.
A batsman hits the ball onto the hands of the catcher behind him. His teammate and a cameraman look on. In three horizontal stripes, the foreground is green, the middle segment is black, and there is a band of blue sky above, where the cameraman is watching. A man in a white hat and t-shirt and dark trousers throws a cricket ball onto the air. In the foreground there is green grass, a green hedge, and a post with a light attached. In the background are distant hills and pale blue cloudy sky. A man in the centre of the shot runs towards the camera, he is wearing white t-shirt, black trousers and a black cap. On the ground in front of him to the left, a man in a white cricket hat looks on the direction of the ground in front to see the ball. A building with 3 distinct brick arches can be seen in the background. A young Rwandan man in a blue and yellow patterned t-shirt, turns over the leaves of the blue manual scoreboard which shows the words ‘Runs’ and ‘Total’. His forefinger rests on the white number 4, as he looks down and away from the camera with a smile.
April 30, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Good Friday - Vendredi Saint. Gisenyi + Goma.
April 19, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Everyday photos, Kigali.
Looking through a doorway, a line of cloths and dish towels are hanging by pegs. An informal painted white house with rain marks at the bottom and a red door and window frames can be seen behind.
March 22, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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Everyday photos from Rwanda.
A man, standing on an unseen ladder leans to his right to trim a hedge. Behind him is the faint outline of the city of Kigali, in the foreground are various trees, plants, and orange poppies. The view is seen through a metal and glass doorframe and window. The remnants of a building - interior walls and the outline of a roof - are being demolished. The silhouette of two men stand either side of a pillar. The building behind the demolition is white, the sky behind is blue, and lined with trees at the bottom. There is a pile of pale orange bricks in front of the demolition. The building had previously been a petrol station.
February 28, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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Love this from @thecontinent.org - yes, they do detailed, well-researched reporting but also fun, engaging stories. And lovely work from the ever-excellent Luis Tato.
February 15, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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View from Rwanda - everyday phone photos.
A wedding party in matching outfits is filmed performing a song for the camera, on the pier on lake Kivu, Gisenyi. A group of male swimmers huddle on the neighbouring platform nearby. Lake Kivu, a wedding party are silhouetted from behind standing on the pier into the lake. A man in a small wooden fishing boat approaches, the hills of Rwanda can be seen behind. Three men stand at the end of a pier looking out to the lake. In the foreground is a small blue tourist boat with a partial yellow roof with the words Rwanda Lake Kivu. The living room of a German colonial building on the shores of Lake Kivu is divided by two pillars. In the far room is an intricate fireplace, a woman wearing purple sits on a white plastic chair. Most of the walls and the floor are brick red, with one yellow wall on the far right, and a blue mantle over the brown fireplace. There is a black metal chandelier with upright lightbulbs hanging from the ceiling.
February 8, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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Late to my everyday phone photos - it’s been a bit busy over here - views of Kigali.
View of a Kigali downtown skyline at night showing various buildings and roads lit up by yellow lights. View of Kigali downtown skyline by day, with cloudy mist in the distance and red roofs in the foreground.
February 3, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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Places that Google Maps thinks are roads.

Everyday phone photos, Rwanda.
Two tree trunks sit across a small stream from the path into a field beyond. A narrow passage with a drainage channel down the middle and walls either side. A passage way with a drainage channel down the middle, some wooden planks at intervals across the drainage channel and walls, gates, and green plants either side.
January 22, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Very late views from Rwanda - everyday phone photos.
A wooden upright chair sits in the centre of the photo, under large trees, next to a brick building in the left of the photo. 5 Power lines at various distances apart sit horizontally across the image, with the electricity pole connecting them in the vertical centre. A small bird sits on the second line down. Under the power lines is a garden of bean plants - yellow and green - growing up bamboo sticks. Two hills can be seen in the distance behind. A building site of two storeys, with no walls, just upright concrete pillars and floors. A young man sits on a chair on the corner of the second storey. The sky behind is blue with white fluffy clouds. There is a green mesh fabric fence in front of the building site.
January 13, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Views from Kigali, Rwanda, this week.
A cross section of a dirt road is lit by a yellow street lamp, with the lights of houses on the hillside in the distance. A large building is draped with yellow festive lights, stars, and an unidentifiable shape in a circle. Traffic lights in red and green show the countdown in the foreground. The Marriot Hotel in Kigali is lit to look like a present with a red bow, and a small white reindeer and face of Santa sit on the roof. View of the convention centre, Kigali, at night, with red fireworks seen in the skyline.
January 4, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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And a very Happy New Year from Kigali, Rwanda.
An orange and yellow plume of light ignites the dark Kigali skyline, alongside a white/blue convention centre, as part of a fireworks display to mark the start of the new year.
December 31, 2024 at 11:22 PM
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Views from Rwanda -everyday phone photos
Rows of informal houses with tin roofs descends down the hall. The first has a blue and yellow sign saying ‘Beta Paints’. In the distance, multiple hills give way to a dramatic cloudy sky A black cap emblazoned with the word ‘Power’ in white letters sits next to a red workers helmet, on a black shelf, with the tops of plastic yellow chairs just visible in front of them. A patterned see through design in a red brick wall discloses a green palm tree behind with a pale blue sky above and a single black power line at 45 degrees to the right. Two women dressed in kitengi fabric carry fruit in containers on their head as they walk down a busy suburban street with cars, motos travelling along a cobbled road, green trees in the background.
December 28, 2024 at 8:09 AM
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Belated views from Rwanda, this week. Everyday phone photos.
Green valley in Rwanda with housing across the entire hillside in the distance. A no-parking sign in front of a wall with maize growing outside a house Red brick building with colourful old green metal gates. Black and white Heron on a red brick wall in front of a partially built brick building.
December 21, 2024 at 3:08 PM
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Another week, more views from Rwanda - everyday phone photos.
A moto with passenger drives past the front of a compound titled ‘Sulpho Rwanda Industries’. A water course with trees either side gives way to a view of groundwork in the distance, as a new wetland is being constructed in the city of Kigali. Morning light on a garden full of flowers with a hazy skyline in the distance and the outline of some hills. A red letter H is viewed from behind through the window of a hotel, looking out at the city of Kigali.
December 13, 2024 at 5:31 AM
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This week’s views from Kigali + Dar es Salaam.

Everyday phone photos.
4 people walk towards an arriving plane on the tarmac in the rain. A grey, boxy mechanical walkway sits to the right. Fishing nets on a yellow, sand coloured surface, lit by an evening glow. A man with a fishing spear is silhouetted in front of the sea. A woman walks in front of a red building festooned with fairy lights.
December 6, 2024 at 3:53 PM
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This week’s view from Kigali. Everyday phone photos.
November 29, 2024 at 3:31 PM
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Women of Bukavu, DRC.

In September, I had the opportunity to interview women living in the South Kivu, DRC. From overcrowded city living conditions to an impossible war economy, they told me about the way that ongoing conflict impacted their daily lives.
November 28, 2024 at 1:33 PM
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Kigali, Rwanda.
November 26, 2024 at 12:53 PM
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It’s been an agricultural few weeks.

#rwanda #agriculture #eastafrica
Green valley in Rwanda with a small stream running through it and agricultural workers either side. Dirt pathway between two patches of dried grass which lead to a long thin building. Blue sky dotted with clouds. Modern and traditional beehives on racks surrounded by young trees. A greenhouse on the shores of a lake, through a muddy field, with two people in white coats and hats standing in front of it.
November 25, 2024 at 6:57 AM
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The appalling reach of anti-immigrant sentiment. Reporting from the ever excellent @thecontinent.bsky.social
November 23, 2024 at 12:15 PM
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Probably time to introduce you to Stevie, the partially sighted German Shepherd. Just one of the menagerie.
November 23, 2024 at 5:04 AM
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Talking to Rwandan mushroom farmers this week - small businesses, circularity + innovation, mycelium - all the fun.
November 22, 2024 at 10:31 AM