As Rwanda marks 30 years after the liberation, Rwandans across the country and even in diaspora on July 4, celebrate the reconstruction and unity of the country.

When the country was liberated on July 4, 1994, everything was in shambles; the economy was on its knees before it crumbled completely during the Genocide against the Tutsi. There was no infrastructure to speak of and downtown Kigali looked like a ghost city, and the peripheries even worse.

Through pictures, The New Times shows the transformation that Kigali has undergone over the past 30 years.