ucts: coffee, tea, pyrethrum (insecticide made
from chrysanthemums), bananas, beans, sorghum, potatoes; livestock

Exports: $82.1 million (f.o.b., 1998 est.)

Exports--commodities: coffee 55%, tea 21%, hides, tin ore (1997)

Exports--partners: Brazil 49%, Germany 16%, US, Netherlands, UK
(1996)

Imports: $326 million (f.o.b., 1998 est.)

Imports--commodities: foodstuffs, machinery and equipment, steel,
petroleum products, cement and construction material (1997)

Imports--partners: Italy, Kenya, Tanzania, US, Belgium-Luxembourg
(1997)

Debt--external: $1.2 billion (1998)

Economic aid--recipient: $711.2 million (1995); note?since 1994,
World Bank financing to Rwanda has totaled more than $120 million;
in June 1998, Rwanda signed an Enhanced Structural Adjustment
Facility (ESAF) with the IMF; in summer 1998, Rwanda presented its
policy objectives and development priorities to donor governments
resulting in multi-year pledges in the amount of $250 million

Currency: 1 Rwandan franc (RF) = 100 centimes

Exchange rates: Rwandan francs (RF) per US$1--320.63 (February
1999), 312.31 (1998), 301.53 (1997), 306.82 (1996), 262.20 (1995)

Fiscal year: calendar year

Communications

Telephones: 6,400 (1983 est.)

Telephone system: telephone system primarily serves business and
government
domestic: the capital, Kigali, is connected to the centers of the
prefectures by microwave radio relay; the remainder of the network
depends on wire and HF radiotelephone
international: international connections employ microwave radio
relay to neighboring countries and satellite communications to more
distant countries; satellite earth stations--1 Intelsat (Indian
Ocean) in Kigali (includes telex and telefax service)

Radio broadcast stations: AM 1, FM 1, shortwave 0

Radios: 630,000 (1993 est.)

Television broadcast stations: 2 (1997)

Televisions: NA

Transportation

Railways: 0 km

Highways:
total: 12,000 km
paved: 1,000 km
unpaved: 11,000 km (1997 est.)

Waterways: Lac Kivu navigable by shallow-draft barges and native
craft

Ports and harbors: Cyangugu, Gisenyi, Kibuye

Airports: 7 (1998 est.)

Airports--with paved runways:
total: 4
over 3,047 m: 1
914 to 1,523 m: 2
under 914 m: 1 (1998 est.)

Airports--with unpaved runways:
total: 3
914 to 1,523 m: 1
under 914 m: 2 (1998 est.)

Military

Military branches: Army, Gend