🇷🇼Rwanda

Twice a month Kigali shuts its main roads to cars and fills them with runners, cyclists and free blood-pressure checks.

Continues Dian Fossey's legacy with daily monitoring that protects over half of Rwanda's mountain gorilla families.

A Nairobi startup is swapping diesel minibuses and intercity coaches for locally assembled battery-electric buses, and its own counter now shows 1.4 million litres of diesel not burned.

A motorcycle taxi driver cannot wait two hours for a battery to charge — so Ampersand built a network where you swap it in three minutes instead.

Rwanda's national bird was being kept as a status symbol in hotel gardens; a vet offered an amnesty, and now the cranes are back breeding in the country's biggest marsh.

Kosmotive, founded in Kigali in 2014, sews reusable KosmoPads that its site says have prevented 7,200 tons of plastic waste.

A Rwandan-led NGO has regrown more than two-thirds of the Gishwati forest that genocide-era displacement helped destroy, turning restoration into a path to reconciliation and livelihoods.

In Rwanda's health centers, families identified as malnourished are trained to grow their own vegetables instead of waiting on food aid.