11am (Rwanda), 10am (UK): David Cameron is meeting the president of Rwanda, Paul Kagame, as I write; we're waiting outside in the presidential compound. British readers will be delighted to know that it is boiling hot.
Paul Kagame and David Cameron today.
Photograph: Andrew Parsons/PA Wire
The Conservative leader has just made a well-received speech to the parliament here in Kigali.
There was slightly awkward moment when the entire room plunged into darkness and Mr Cameron battled on gamely for a few lines until the light returned.
It was also a bit of a struggle for him to deliver the entire 18-page speech sitting down.
But he got the MPs on his side early by praising the 50:50 male-female split in the parliament.
"This is a better record on gender equality than the British House of Commons, the US Senate, the European parliament and even the central committee of the Chinese Communist party," he said.
Mr Cameron famously made increasing the proportion of women Tory MPs - at present a dismal 9% - one of the first priorities of his leadership.
The party says that over a third of the candidates now selected for winnable seats are women.
There are other things about Rwanda that chime with Mr Cameron's agenda: a big emphasis on volunteering, with some communities being required to spend a day a week improving their environment, and the fact that the president has recently banned plastic bags.
Mr Cameron praised Rwanda as an "incredible African success story" for the way it has developed following the horrific 1994 genocide. And he backed the country's application to join the Commonwealth.
The Tories have invited President Kagame to join Arnold Schwarzenegger, the governor of California, as a special guest speaker at the party's annual conference in Blackpool in October.
British politicians on all sides are very supportive of Kagame.
None the less there remain some awkward questions about the extent of Rwandan influence and its involvement in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and it will be interesting to see if Mr Cameron has raised these issues in his meeting today.
