That was when we decided to cross the Ruzizi.
We decided to cross the Ruzizi river and bring her to the hospital here in Bujumbura.
Akagera can be accessed on a day trip from Kigali, but we choose to overnight at Ruzizi Tented Lodge, a solar-powered camp at the edge of Lake Ihema.
According to the report, the bodies of some people who were summarily executed were transported across the Ruzizi river and buried in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Encouraged by them, in a way, he'd planned to explore the Ruzizi, the Lukuga and the Lualaba rivers, the most extensive exploration of uncharted African waters yet undertaken.
"But if I wanted to be safe", he argued with himself, "I'd have stayed home in Jinja".War was also raging again between two of the countries that bordered the Ruzizi, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda.
This created Lake Kivu; its waters discharge to the south, through the Ruzizi (Rusizi) River gorge into Lake Tanganyika, one outlet of which links the lake with the Lualaba River and thus the Congo.
To the east, in the Ruzizi plain of South Kivu, the Belgian NGO VECO has begun teaching SRI methods to farmers, with photos and results posted on their facebook page.
Headed north from Ruzizi, an Akagera game drive is also a five- to seven-hour highlight reel of gorgeous east African landscapes: open plains, scraggly highlands and the swampy waters of Africa's largest protected wetlands.
Except for the Ruzizi, through which the waters of Lake Kivu empty into Lake Tanganyika, most of the country's rivers are found on the eastern side of the Congo-Nile divide, with the Kagera, the major eastern river, forming much of the boundary between Rwanda, Burundi, and Tanzania.
