KIGALI (30 MAY 2025) – The UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Olivier De Schutter, today praised Rwanda for its impressive progress in reducing poverty, but warned that much ...

Rwanda successfully lifted around 1.5 million people out of poverty, an achievement that stands out globally and aligns with ...

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, Olivier De Schutter, on Friday, May 30, lauded Rwanda’s progress in poverty alleviation, calling for greater social ...

According to the Rwanda Demographic and Health Survey (RDHS) conducted in 2020, stunting rates are highest in the poorest households, particularly among those living in rural areas. The survey ...

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.

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 ...

“We can’t find any other example of it being done in rural Africa. We want lots of other people to be doing this.” Correspondent Robyn Spector contributed to this report from Rwand ...

Sometime after 3 a.m., cyclists start to appear. All over rural Rwanda, sinewy young men set out from their homes on heavy steel single-speed bikes that are almost invisible beneath comically ...

Emmy Award-winner (2005) Since 1999, award-winning filmmaker Anne Aghion has traveled to rural Rwanda, to chart the impact of that country’s efforts at ethnic reconciliation. In Rwanda we say… The ...

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 ...