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Sarah Scarborough Follows Tea Across Continents As Ritual And Medicine
Sarah Scarborough, the always seeker and traveler Tea Huntress There’s a quiet magnetism in the way Sarah moves through the world. Founder of Tea Huntress, she has built a practice where travel, ritual, and ecology intersect, and where tea is not...
Rwanda launches AI-powered mobile apps to improve health services
Rwanda Opens New Trade Corridors with Saudi Arabia-Funded 150Km Roads
1 Kigali — Saudi Arabia, through the Saudi Fund for Development (SFD) has reaffirmed its commitment to deepening cooperation with Rwanda through the financing of key transport infrastructure projects, as three major roads covering more than 150...
Advancing Global Dialogue On Food Is Medicine
Professor Jason Wu is Head of the Nutrition Science Program at The George Institute for Global Health and a passionate advocate for using food to promote health and prevent or manage disease. As a recognised expert in the ‘food is medicine’...
GSMA MWC25 Kigali: Africa’s flagship event returns to spotlight AI, fintech and connectivity
The GSMA’s flagship African connectivity event, MWC25 Kigali, returns to the Kigali Convention Centre, Rwanda, from 21-23 October 2025. MWC Kigali has quickly evolved into one of the continent’s leading platform for convening innovators,...
President Kagame backs operational launch of Africa Medicines Agency as Rwanda hosts headquarters
Accra, Oct. 16, GNA – Dr. Delese Mimi Darko, the Director-General of the African Medicines Agency (AMA), has held a high-level discussion with the President of Rwanda, Paul Kagame, to finalise plans for the full operationalisation of the agency in...
President Kagame backs operational launch of Africa Medicines Agency
Dr. Delese Mimi Darko, the Director-General of the African Medicines Agency (AMA), has held a high-level discussion with the President of Rwanda, Paul Kagame, to finalise plans for the full operationalisation of the agency in a move to advance...
Fellows to use indigenous wisdom to study health, agriculture
RWANDA A three-year fellowship programme for 400 young African researchers, covering themes such as indigenous medical sciences and healing practices, as well as indigenous pedagogies and curriculum development, has kicked off, targeting young...
MTN, Airtel, Others Move To Bring $30 Smartphones To African Consumers
1 LAGOS – Leading African telecom operators in collaboration with GSMA are set to push $30–$40 (about N60,000) 4G phones to bridge the access gap and connect 50 million new users. The coalition which is targeting Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda...
Tom Harwood rages as lawyer defends free private healthcare for illegal migrants as 'a drop in the ocean'
Tom Harwood became enraged as a human rights lawyer defended free private healthcare for illegal migrants on GB News. It was exposed on Wednesday that taxpaying Britons are set to swallow £60million in costs to fund a private health firm to look...
Government Moves to Break Up Rwanda’s Exploitative Banks
4 The banks are making so much money, but at the expense of Rwandans Rwanda’s banking industry, long seen as a pillar of the economy, is coming under sharp government scrutiny for what is clearly an unbalanced and exploitative system that benefits...
Rwanda Marks International Day of the Girl with Call to End HIV and Teenage Pregnancy
4 Huye, — Rwanda joined the rest of the world in marking the International Day of the Girl Child (IDGC) with a call to strengthen protection and health services for adolescent girls, who continue to face heightened risks of HIV infection, teenage...
Rwanda's Stock Market Rises Amidst Shifting Investor Sentiments
Rwanda's stock market concluded this week on an optimistic note, with significant movements in its key indices. The Rwanda Share Index (RSI) surged by 0.8 percent, closing the trading session at 137.27 points, while the Rwanda All Share Index...
35 Years after Rwanda's civil war, a digital revolution is underway
5 min read2 hr Ufashweneza Speratha was nine years old when her world fell apart after losing her entire family in the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda. Orphaned and displaced, Ufashweneza found herself alone in a nation trying to heal...
African Medicines Agency begins full operations as Director-General meets Rwanda’s Minister of Health
Accra, Oct. 16, GNA – The African Medicines Agency (AMA) has officially commenced full operations at its Headquarters in Kigali, Rwanda. AMA’s operational launch is a step forward in strengthening Africa’s regulatory capacity, improving access to...
Current Status, Trends, and Forecast Analysis of LBP Disease Burden Attributable to Occupational Ergonomic Factors in China
Introduction Low back pain (LBP) is a common musculoskeletal disorder defined as pain or discomfort in the area between the lower edge of the twelfth rib and the lower hip fold, with or without leg radiation symptoms.1,2 Epidemiological statistics...
21 mn people need humanitarian aid in DR Congo: Oxfam France
The DRC is experiencing "one of the most serious and forgotten humanitarian crises in the world" and it "continues to worsen", the aid charity said. The crisis is particularly severe in the east of the vast central African country -- a region rich...
BioNTech secures $110 million for Rwanda vaccine plant
The European Investment Bank and the European Commission provided a financing package of $110 million to German biotechnology company BioNTech for its messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine manufacturing facility in Rwanda. The World Health Organization...
‘Dubai Future Solutions – Prototypes for Humanity’ Draws Global Participation with 3000+ Submissions from 1200 Universities Worldwide
Dubai is once again set to host the world’s most diverse gathering of academic talent and innovation, ‘Dubai Future Solutions – Prototypes for Humanity.’ The initiative brings together students and professors from leading universities across the...
Nate Ament honors his Rwandan roots
As a unanimously ranked five-star and the No. 2 overall player in the country according to On3, Manassas resident Nate Ament is often known for his ability on the hardwood as a basketball player. With strong ties to his mother’s native Rwanda,...