‘In the morning, there were always dead children to bury… then came a medical miracle’
Burundi in 2001 was a country ravaged by the machete massacres of the 1990s that spread into neighbouring Rwanda.
There were still plenty of bleached bones in the grass, many with machete cuts.
At the time I had been asked to go to Burundi/Rwanda for six months to help with a massive malaria outbreak.
Guns could sometimes be heard in the distance, and there were rebel attacks. The country was also in the grip of malnutrition.
