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Exports: Coffee. Per capita income: $35-50. U.S. aid: $7,500,000. Both countries are heavily overpopulated, heavily dependent on foreign aid. Rwanda looks to neighboring Uganda for trade outlet. Rwanda is republic with moderate austerity regime. Burundi is monarchy with moderate regime under merry Mwami (King) Mwambutsa...
Exports: Sisal, cotton, coffee. Per capita income: $55. U.S. aid (1961): $4,300,000. Less than one-third of vast land is usable. Disease is rampant. Government is pro-Western, hopes for federation with Kenya and Uganda when they win independence...
Exports: Coffee, sisal, meat. Per capita income: $96. U.S. aid (1961): $2,100,000. Communist infiltration may increase with independence, but U.S. has won high esteem through famine relief. Main problems: replacing 4,000 European civil servants; settling Africans on land, healing tribal schisms...
Exports: Coffee, cotton, copper. Per capita income: $68. U.S. aid (1961): $200,000. Rich land has no white-settler problem, with independence in October, will have moderate, pro-Western government. Major problem: lack of cohesive, national outlook...
Exports: Cotton, gum arabic. Per capita income: $95. U.S. aid (1961): $9,400,000. Africa's biggest country has made impressive economic gains, with foreign aid. Regime unlikely to step down before Seven Year Development Plan ends...