Burundi Travel Vacation
Current Travel Warnings
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US Department Of State Post Report
Traveling outside of Gombe can be dangerous depending on the area of the cité. Current travel restrictions require that the RSO be notified of any official personnel's travel plans outside of Gombe. Traveling at night there is an increased level of carjackings, robberies, and assault. ... Currency rules are in a state of flux in this mostly-cash society. Credit cards are accepted at only the two major hotels. Credit cards may not be used at banks to obtain cash advances and there are no automatic teller machines. Only commercial banks cash traveler’s checks or accept wire transfers. Some travelers have complained of high fees, delays, and unavailability of cash when trying to accomplish either of these transactions. ... [Read More]
Comoros
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Madeleine K. Albright
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US Department Of State Post Report
The banking laws of Tanzania were changed in the early 90s and now both private and foreign banking facilities are available in Tanzania. There are 28 private banks and financial institutions in Tanzania. Citibank Tanzania Ltd. is the one American bank operating in the country. These banks provide a range of national and international banking services including the sale of U.S. and foreign travelers checks. The U.S. Disbursing Officer in Charleston, South Carolina maintains a shilling checking account at Citibank Tanzania Ltd. in Dar es Salaam. The bank will accept employee's personal dollar checks but charges a one percent commission to cash into dollars. Citibank provides a teller window in the embassy for personnel to cash their personal checks. Travelers checks are not recommended. They are very difficult to cash outside of the embassy. A commission is charged to purchase travelers checks and to cash travelers checks into foreign currency. ... [Read More]
South Africa
In July, head of the NDPP Bulelani Ncguka resigned amidst media reports that parliamentarians and their travel agents misused official vouchers to pay for personal expenses. An internal parliamentary investigation starting in 2003 audited the accounts of as many as 179 parliamentarians for misusing up to $2.5 million (R16 million). The incident became public after 7 travel agents were arrested in connection with the alleged scam, and in August the "Scorpions" unit of the NDPP submitted to Parliament the names of 23 parliamentarians that they wanted to question in connection to the scandal. No politicians had been charged by year's end; however, the investigation remained ongoing. ... [Read More]
South Africa
Rape, including spousal rape, was illegal. There was an extremely high incidence of rape for reasons that included a poor general security climate and societal attitudes condoning sexual violence against women. In the large majority of rape cases, the perpetrator went unpunished. The SAPS reported that between January and March 2001, there were 144.2 rapes reported per day or 29.5 rapes per 100,000 persons; however, according to a 1998 SAPS survey cited in the Statistics South Africa (StatsSA) report, only half of all respondents who were raped reported the incident to the police. Of the cases reported, 47.6 percent were referred to court after an investigation. The Rape Crisis Organization of South Africa reported that only 8.9 percent of reported rapes resulted in a conviction (see Section 1.e.). Rape, sexual assault, and sexual harassment of black female farm workers by farm owners, managers, and by other farm w ... [Read More]
South Africa
Approximately 60 percent of nonpersonnel resources were devoted to the 40 percent most needy schools. Each of the nine provincial departments of education had responsibility for the schools in their provinces, which resulted in the uneven distribution of educational facilities. The disparity affected the areas of Eastern Cape, the Limpopo Province, and KwaZulu-Natal most severely. The availability and quality of primary schooling still was a problem, especially in rural areas where schools may not be easily accessible or where children worked (see Section 6.d.). Most schools in rural and urban KwaZulu-Natal reportedly faced many problems of inadequate learner support materials, long-vacant teaching posts, overcrowding, late pupil registration, and vacation time vandalism. To address this problem, the Government continued to build new schools and introduced basic skills development and prevocational training into the curriculum. ... [Read More]
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