Over 80% Healthcare Facilities In DR Congo Out Of Medicines Due To Conflict – Report

More than 80 percent of healthcare facilities have exhausted their supplies of essential medicines in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where violence continues unabated, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) reported on...

Nearly 90% of surveyed East Congo clinics out of medicines, Red Cross says

October 8 (Reuters) -More than 200 health facilities in war-hit eastern Congo have run out of medicines due to widespread looting and supply chain disruptions during fighting this year, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on...

President Kagame to Open MWC25 Kigali Tech Conference

Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame will officially open MWC25 Kigali on October 21 at the Kigali Convention Centre, marking the third consecutive time he has inaugurated Africa’s largest connectivity event, organizers announced this week. The...

With the Rise of Wellness Tourism, Every Hotel is Becoming a Health Retreat

I’m in a private spa chamber at Maxx Royal Bodrum Resort on the Turkish Riviera, with a Balinese therapist tucking me into a Nuvola dry floatation therapy bed. With the click of a button, the bed lowers, and I float as if in water, but I'm...

Testimony, advocacy, and the public health effect of genocide

Medical community must play its part in ending atrocities In 2000, JAMA published a commentary by Willis and Levy calling for action to ensure recognition of the public health impact of genocide.1 The genocide it was reflecting on was in Rwanda,...

'Flying eye hospital' lands in Dubai: How 1973 plane turned into medical training facility

Once a dusty old cargo plane, this 1973 FedEx aircraft has been given a second life. Instead of carrying packages across continents, it now carries hope, for inside this sleek silver fuselage sits a fully functioning hospital. The Orbis Flying Eye...

WCQ: Blow for Benin as club blocks key player from joining squad against Rwanda, Nigeria

Goztepe midfielder, Junior Olaitan, will not be making the trip to Benin Republic’s World Cup qualifying game against Rwanda this weekend. The midfielder was blocked by his Turkish club from making the trip and this would be a big blow for the...

2026 WCQ: Bafana Bafana Suffer Another Injury Setback Ahead Zimbabwe, Rwanda Fixtures

South Africa’s Bafana Bafana have been dealt another massive setback after forward Iqraam Rayners withdrew from the team due to medical reasons. Rayners, 29, who plays for Mamelodi Sundowns has been replaced by Evidence Makgopa. “Iqraam Rayners...

JUNIOR OLAITAN:- Turkish club block Benin midfielder of Nigerian descent from flying to Rwanda

JUNIOR OLAITAN:- Turkish club block Benin midfielder of Nigerian descent from flying to Rwanda Goztepe midfielder Junior Olaitan has been blocked from reporting for international duty by his Turkish club ahead of Benin’s World Cup qualifiers...

The Hemingways Collection Expands to Rwanda

The Hemingways Collection is thrilled to announce the addition of Hemingways Retreat Kigali to their roster of luxury retreats in East Africa. The acquisition marks the family-owned company’s expansion into Rwanda after 40+ years across Kenya’s...

Turkish club block Benin midfielder of Nigerian descent Olaitan from flying to Rwanda

Goztepe midfielder Junior Olaitan has been blocked from reporting for international duty by his Turkish club ahead of Benin's World Cup qualifiers against Rwanda and Nigeria. Born in Porto-Novo to a Beninese mother and Nigerian father, Olaitan was...

Nigeria exits debtors’ list as IMF releases names of 10 African countries with lowest debt in 2025

After fully repaying its $3.5 billion COVID-19 loan, Nigeria was struck off the debtors’ list by the IMF However, a lot of African countries are still trapped with high debt exposure to the fund The IMF, in a recent update, released the list of 10...

See the list of African countries with low risk exposure to IMF

After fully repaying its $3.5 billion COVID-19 loan, Nigeria was struck off the debtors’ list by the IMF However, a lot of African countries are still trapped with high debt exposure to the fund The IMF, in a recent update, released the list of 10...

The world’s first International Standard dedicated to helping organizations take action on biodiversity launched today in Rwanda

ISO 17298: Biodiversity for organizations – Guidelines and Requirements is a new standard providing, for the first time, a practical, scalable framework to help organizations assess their biodiversity impacts, dependencies, risks and...

Malawi’s Shyreen Kalulu to represent the nation at Miss Geek Africa 2025 in Rwanda

Malawi’s technological innovation scene has earned continental recognition as 20-year-old Shyreen Kalulu, a student at the University of Malawi (UNIMA), prepares to represent the country at the Miss Geek Africa 2025 competition in Kigali, Rwanda,...

Global Routes with Tony Burke: October 27, 2025

Various artists Habibi Funk 031: A Selection Of Music From Libyan Tapes (Habibifunkrecords) ⭑⭑⭑⭑☆ THESE are great north African/Arab rhythms and Afro reggae, recorded in 1980s to the early 2000s (the “cassette age”) and discovered by Habibi Funk’s...

The Congolese amputee giving new prosthetic limbs to the wounded

GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) -Wivine Kavira Mukata was in the kitchen preparing plantains and fish soup for her family on the day in February 2014 when a bomb tore through her home in Beni, in eastern Congo’s war-hit North Kivu...

‘Best is yet to come,’ says Cameroon’s president, 92

As he campaigned for an eighth term in office, Cameroon’s 92-year-old president confidently declared: “The best is yet to come.” Paul Biya, the world’s oldest head of state, now has seven more years to fulfil that promise after victory extended...

What Rwanda needs to increase clinical research capacity

March trial set for Stark man accused of 1994 Rwandan killings, rapes

His trial is to begin in Boston on March 16. Federal prosecutors say he raped and killed innocent people in Butare, Rwanda. Defense attorneys say he was elsewhere, not in Butare. A Stark County man accused of rape and murder during the Rwandan...