A couple of years ago Rwanda decided to change the provinces, not to mad, because there were too many. At the same time they decided to change most of the place names; less smart. It is very hard to get a decent map of Rwanda, the best ones come from Europe. These maps are reasonable resent and some details are not 100% correct. So foreigners use the old names and so do most of the locals still. The newspapers etc. use both, sometimes in the same sentence. Luckily there are at least three names unchanged: Rwanda, Kigali and Gisenyi.
This all however is completely irrelevant as the signs on the road seldom mention the place names, they mention the name of the hill/neighbourhood. I don't think I've ever seen a sign "Kigali".
Greetings from Kiyovu.
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