main food crops - bananas, beans, sorghum, potatoes; stock raising;
self-sufficiency declining; country imports foodstuffs as farm
production fails to keep up with a 2.8% annual growth in population
Economic aid:
recipient:
US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $128 million; Western
(non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments (1970-89), $2
billion; OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89), $45 million; Communist
countries (1970-89), $58 million
note:
in October 1990 Rwanda launched a Structural Adjustment Program with
the IMF; since September 1991, the EC has given $46 million and the US
$25 million in support of this program (1993)
Currency:
1 Rwandan franc (RF) = 100 centimes
Exchange rates:
Rwandan francs (RF) per US$1 - 145.45 (December 1993), 133.35 (1992),
125.14 (1991), 82.60 (1990), 79.98 (1989)
Fiscal year:
calendar year

@Rwanda, Communications

Highways:
total:
4,885 km
paved:
460 km
unpaved:
gravel, improved earth 1,725 km; unimproved earth 2,700 km
Inland waterways:
Lac Kivu navigable by shallow-draft barges and native craft
Airports:
total:
8
usable:
7
with permanent-surface runways:
3
with runways over 3,659 m:
0
with runways 2,440-3,659 m:
1
with runways 1,220-2,439 m:
2
Telecommunications:
telephone system does not provide service to the general public but is
intended for business and government use; the capital, Kigali, is
connected to the centers of the prefectures by microwave radio relay;
the remainder of the network depends on wire and high frequency radio;
international connections employ microwave radio relay to neighboring
countries and satellite communications to more distant countries;
satellite earth stations - 1 Indian Ocean INTELSAT and 1 SYMPHONIE
station in Kigali (includes telex and telefax service); broadcast
stations - 1 AM, 1 FM, 1 TV

@Rwanda, Defense Forces

Branches:
Army (including Air Wing), Gendarmerie
note:
Rwanda plans to demobilize and reorganize with RPF elements during
1994
Manpower availability:
males age 15-49 1,733,246; fit for military service 883,291
Defense expenditures:
exchange rate conversion - $37 million, 1.6% of GDP (1988 est.)

@Saint Helena

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Affiliation:
(dependent territory of the UK)

@Saint Helena, Geography

Location:
Southern Africa, in the South Atlantic Ocean, 1,920 km west of Angola,
about two-thirds of the way between