Hearing a blast, journalist Anjan Sundaram headed uphill towards the sound. Gren
ade explosions are not entirely unusual in the city of Kigali; dissidents throw
them in public areas to try and destabilise the government and, since moving to
Rwanda, he had observed an increasing number of them. What was unusual about thi
s one, however, was that when Sundaram arrived, it was as though nothing had hap
pened.