in rural areas cannot allow any other form of transportation. As a result, bicycles have become the best transport alternative operating in some of the remotest parts of Rwanda. Abolition Recently ...

Like most people in this part of Rwanda’s rural Rwamagana district ... such communities are dispersed over immense areas, and are too poor to afford such extensive infrastructure.

The Rwanda government strategic plan "Vision 2020 ... only 20% of the overall investment went to rural areas. For this reason, the RDB recently organized a conference on investment opportunities ...

EICV 7 showed that there were almost 3.3 million households in Rwanda, comprising 964,000 urban areas, and more than 2.3 million in rural areas. 2. Electricity access improved The EICV 7 also ...

And many residents in rural areas must walk miles to get fresh water from community wells. Isaura Guzman knew poverty before showing up as one of the first Shooting Touch fellows in Rwanda in 2012.

The digging goes on, a scene that's become all too familiar in a verdant area of rural southern Rwanda, where the discovery in October of human remains at the site of a house under construction ...

But in Rwanda, that number flips: 83 percent of Rwandans live in rural areas. So, traditionally, when remote hospitals needed blood, it came by road. That’s not ideal. The country is mountainous.

It's part of our series Breakthrough. On the outskirts of Rwanda's capital, Kigali, is a new blood bank set up to serve distant rural areas where blood is not always available and difficult to store.