Associated Press: Journalist Duplexe Joeploe protests the imprisonment of editor Rodney Sieh at a rally held at the Press Union of Liberia in Monrovia, Liberia Monday Sep 23, 2013. Joeploe is a reporter for Liberia radio station King's FM. (AP Photo/Mark Darrough)
Published by BBC: Moviegoers watch Iron Man 3 wearing 3D glasses at Kigali's new Century Cinema, Rwanda’s first modern movie theater. The theatre also offers the 5D experience, the first to do so in Africa. (Mark Darrough/Associated Press)
Associated Press: Liberian ex-president Charles Taylor's wife Victoria Taylor prays for her husband's upcoming appeal judgement during a prayer service held at the Dominion Christian Church in Monrovia, Liberia Saturday Sep 21, 2013. The International Criminal Court is scheduled to announce the judgement Thursday Sep 26 at The Hague. (AP Photo/Mark Darrough)
Published by Washington Post: Some of nearly 25,000 high school students who recently failed the University of Liberia's entrance exam demonstrate on campus with the Student Integration Movement at the University of Liberia. (Mark Darrough/AP)
International Rescue Committee: A village in eastern Liberia.
International Rescue Committee: Eastern Liberia near the Ghana border.
The Carter Center: Kakata, Liberia.
International Rescue Committee: A mother and her children in eastern Liberia.
Save the Children: A girl stomps on grain in a village in eastern Liberia.
Bridge2Rwanda: Boys fish on the shores of Lake Burera, in northern Rwanda, as they await their father's return across the lake.
Bridge2Rwanda: A village above Lake Burera, northern Rwanda.
International Rescue Committee: The bush town of Ganta, Liberia, near the country’s border with Guinea in West Africa.
Winrock International: A boy jumps for a monkey apple on a rubber plantation in Liberia.
Bridge2Rwanda: A boy carries grass to thatch his family’s roof in Kinigi, Rwanda.
Bridge2Rwanda: A sister carries her brother on her back in Kigali, Rwanda.
Winrock International: A village elder, central Liberia.
A boy kicks a soccer ball made from trash in Gisenyi, Rwanda.
A local soccer game in Monrovia, Liberia.
A local soccer game in Monrovia, Liberia.
A village near Akagera Game Park in eastern Rwanda.
Independent: As part of a portrait series of Rwandan leaders who were involved in the 1990-1994 civil war, a member of President Paul Kagame’s cabinet poses at his office in Kigali, Rwanda.
Bridge2Rwanda: A man sings and plays the inanga, Rwanda’s traditional guitar.
A Volcanoes National Park guide during the ascent of Mt. Karisimbi.
Umuganda, which takes place the last Saturday every month, means “community cleanup.” Rwanda re-institutionalized the mandatory tradition in 2009 – all able-bodied citizens aged 18 to 65 must partake in their own communities’ projects.
A man speaks during a ceremony held on top a hill covered by thousands of residents after Umuganda – “community cleanup” held in every community across the country the last Saturday every month. All able-bodied citizens aged 18 to 65 must participate. For many, it is a symbol of unity.
Central Liberia
A baby cries in a hut in central Liberia.
Farmland in southern Rwanda
Highway in southern Rwanda
Nyabarongo River
