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Originally Posted by Agamemnon
Well... to me 'stability' might mean something different. Sure there's no civil war or chance of being involved in miliatary-scale violence, but your chances of getting randomly stabbed or shot here are MUCH higher than places like Mozambique, Zambia, Rwanda... even Kenya (Nairobi is called "Nairobbery" over there).
Nice to meet someone else who's done the trek... 1994 definitely would have been an interesting time to be over there. I went to the Rwandan Genocide memorial, that was still probably happening around the time you went.
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I was interpreting stability as political.
My mistake, it was 1996. OT, but my sister and BIL worked in a refugee camp in Rwanda for 2 years.
You see, that's what I didn't get. Not saying it doesn't happen. We basically lived in a tent for a year and had no issues (except for one attempted theft) at all. In fact I would go as far as saying they were some of the most genuine nicest people I ever met. Heard stories of other folks that did have problems.
The most unsafe I ever felt was South Africa and that was mostly Joburg. I never felt threatened in Cape Town once. Nairobi, I felt was ok, just had to keep your wits about you more, same with Dar es Salaam.
