Like most people in this part of Rwanda’s rural Rwamagana district, he is a farmer. Also like them, finances are strained; he never knows just how much he will make in a given month.

In the aftermath of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, Rwanda faced enormous infrastructure challenges, including electricity access, which stood at only 1%. Today, as the country marks 31 years of ...

A Chance To Play (8:11) Women and girls playing basketball in poor and patriarchal villages of rural Rwanda used to be a rare sight. But as Mark Fainaru-Wada reports, thousands now enjoy the sport ...

BUSHEKELI, Rwanda — It was something, the silence. ... Her life narrowed to a small, dark room with a dirt-floor in rural Rwanda, prayer beads hanging on the wall by her side.

For a farmer in rural Rwanda, delivering food to a market often involves loading hundreds of pounds of potatoes or bananas on a bike and pedaling over steep hills in hot weather.

In Rwanda, a country with not a single cancer specialist, 5-year-old Umulisa Husna Rutagengwa was lost. For months, she bounced among hospitals, as doctors searched for the cause of her fatigue ...

Like most people in this part of Rwanda’s rural Rwamagana district, he is a farmer. Also like them, finances are strained; he never knows just how much he will make in a given month.

Nearly 20% of the world’s population has no electricity. Rachel Nuwer tells the story of a group of London graduates who have helped thousands of people in Africa access solar energy.