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Kigali

We are in contact with our general manager in Rwanda, Chris Johnston, and in the next hour or so we will be pro-actively calling all next of kin with an update as follows. See statement below.

Statement:
Steppes Travel and Steppes Discovery have over 25 clients and a member of staff in Rwanda at the moment. We have spoken to our ‘man on the ground’ who is about 2.5 hours outside Kigali and all clients are OK and were hardly aware of the incident. Our Managing Director, Kieran Murphy, has spoken with two of team on the ground at 1530 local UK time today and all clients are enjoying the trip and progressing with the itinerary as planned, however, we will monitor the situation closely.

Steppes Travel ground agent is in contact with our clients and they have released the following statement.

Incident in Kigali 19 February 2010
Statement from Steppes agent – Volcano Safari – 22/2/2010 at 15:12

There have been press reports of an incident near the bus station in Kigali last week in which there appears to have been injury to people and some damage to property. The government is investigating the incident and will release further information when it becomes available. Meanwhile security has been increased and the area has returned to normal. Businesses are operating normally in Kigali and travel in and out of Kigali is running normally and travelers are proceeding with safaris as planned. Volcanoes Safaris is monitoring the situation and will release updates as required.

Please note the Foreign office has also been updated in the last hour with the following update; This advice has been reviewed and reissued with an amendment to the Summary (grenade attacks in Kigali. The overall level of the advice has not changed; we advise against all travel to some parts of Rwanda and against all but essential travel to other parts of Rwanda.

Should anyone be concerned about Steppes Travel clients in Rwanda or planning to travel to Rwanda they can contact Steppes Travel on 01285 880980 and ask for James Armitage who will be coordinating any enquires.

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