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MTN Rwanda posts 6.3bn profit after tax as firm bounces back to profitability
CNBC Africa
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August 14, 2025
MTN Rwanda has staged a powerful financial rebound, reflected in its half-year 2025 results, clocking a profit after-tax figure of Rwf 6.3 billion. This marks a vast improvement from the significant losses the company posted the previous year,...
Clinician who confessed to murder in Nakawa church, transferred to Kabale for investigation
Observer
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August 14, 2025
A 24-year-old clinical officer who publicly confessed in a Kampala church to killing a woman in a Kabale lodge has been transferred to Kabale for further investigation. Clinician Clinton MwesiimeClinton Mwesiime, a clinical officer at Hamurwa...
Muha highlights Namibia’s progress on Universal Health Coverage
Namibian Broadcasting Corporation
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The Chairperson of the National Council, Lukas Muha, has highlighted Namibia’s progress in advancing Universal Health Coverage (UHC), noting that the country’s UHC policy was formally approved in February 2025. Speaking at the 54th Commonwealth...
Kenya rallies partners to drive primary healthcare through the Digital Health Triangle
Citizen TV Kenya
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August 14, 2025
Dr. Joe Lenai, Director for Primary Healthcare, Preventive and Promotive Health, Ministry of Health, Kenya. Kenya is stepping up its bid to become East Africa’s hub for healthcare innovation, using a new systems lens—the Digital Health Triangle—to...
Kenya emerges as East Africa's Digital Health hub in push for UHC
The Standard
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Public Health PS Mary Muthoni addressing the press at Huruma sports complex in Nairobi . [File Standard] In a landmark event hosted by WHX in Nairobi, key stakeholders from government, NGOs, and the private sector convened to discuss the future of...
Paratus launches LEO satellite connectivity for health centres across Africa
SatelliteProME
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August 14, 2025
Through Paratus Connect2Care, eligible institutions will receive 2TB of Priority Data to guarantee uninterrupted connectivity. Paratus Group has announced the launch of Paratus Connect2Care, an initiative providing affordable, high-quality...
Unlocking the Digital Health Triangle: Transforming UHC and Primary Care through Technology in East Africa
South Africa Today
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August 13, 2025
As Kenya positions itself as a regional hub for healthcare innovation, a high-level networking event hosted in Nairobi by WHX brought together key public and private stakeholders for a focused conversation on the future of Universal Health...
Rwandan HC for further increasing ties
Business Recorder
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August 12, 2025
KARACHI: The High Commissioner of the Republic of Rwanda to Pakistan, Harerimana Fatou, has said that Rwanda wishes to work with Pakistan in various sectors, including education, health, culture, IT, and agriculture. She invited Pakistani...
Effect of Educational Intervention on Healthcare Workers’ Basic Life Support Knowledge and Practice in a Rural Tertiary Hospital in South Western Uganda
Dove Medical Press
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August 13, 2025
Background Basic Life Support (BLS) plays a critical role in the early recognition and management of cardiac and respiratory arrests, critical emergencies that can lead to preventable deaths if not promptly addressed.1 According to a World Health...
Rwanda performs first cochlear implant surgeries for children who can't hear
The New Times
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August 12, 2025
Dr. Richard Gurgel, an Ear, Nose, and Throat (ENT) surgeon from the University of Utah, USA, the leader of the operation and his assistant doctor during the operation at King Faisal Hospital on Tuesday, August 12. Courtesy
Rwanda legalizes surrogacy for singles and unmarried, contraceptives for 15-year-olds
LifeSite
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August 12, 2025
News New legislation in Rwanda lets unmarried individuals use surrogacy to acquire children and gives minors access to contraceptives without parental input. (LifeSiteNews) — The Parliament of Rwanda has passed a bill legalizing surrogacy for...
Ex-NBA exec plans sports hotel chain after $26M Rwanda launch
Semafor
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August 13, 2025
Africa’s hotel sector has experienced notable growth in recent years. In 2024, 59 hotels and resorts belonging to international chains including Hilton, Marriott, and Radisson opened in Africa, double the number that opened in 2023, according to...
Study shows Rwandan people born of genocidal rape age faster
Western University
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August 12, 2025
Lasting only 100 days, though many acknowledge it continued much longer, the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi people in Rwanda is one of the most heinous genocides and mass murders in modern history. An estimated one million Rwandans were killed,...
PHOTOS: Rwanda performs first cochlear implant surgeries for children who can't hear
The New Times
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August 12, 2025
Dr. Richard Gurgel, an Ear, Nose, and Throat (ENT) surgeon from the University of Utah, USA, the leader of the operation and his assistant doctors during the operation at King Faisal Hospital on Tuesday, August 12. Photos by Emmanuel Dushimimana
Nigeria Emerges First In Africa To Sustain WHO Maturity Level 3 For Medicines, Eyes ML4 Upgrade
Daily Independent
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August 12, 2025
1 ABUJA – Nigeria has become the first country in Africa to sustain the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Maturity Level 3 (ML3) status for the regulation of medicines and vaccines a benchmark essential for vaccine manufacturing and global trade...
Rwandan surrogacy law excludes same-sex couples
Washington Blade - Washington D.C.
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August 12, 2025
Same-sex couples in Rwanda seeking to become parents via surrogate or in vitro fertilization have been excluded under a new bill that MPs passed. The Healthcare Services Bill that passed on Aug. 4 would also allow access to contraceptives for...
Sexual health is an extra struggle for women with disabilities
Independent (Uganda)
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August 12, 2025
Findings from 10 African countries, including Uganda, Rwanda and Kenya in East Africa ANALYSIS | OBASANJO BOLARINWA, ALI MOHAMMED & CLIFFORD OBBY ODIMEGWU | Even after more than three decades of global efforts to promote inclusive sexual and...
Africa-led clinical trials are shaping vaccine science
Daily News Tanzania
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August 12, 2025
FOR decades, Africa’s role in HIV research was framed as that of a peripheral “host, not driver”. The just-concluded 2025 International Aids Society (IAS) conference in Kigali, Rwanda, made it unmistakably clear: that era is over. African...
Rwanda agrees to accept 250 migrants from the US under Trump deal
The Voice
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August 11, 2025
RWANDA HAS agreed to take in up to 250 migrants deported by the United States under a new deal with President Donald Trump making it the third African nation to enter such an agreement. The migrants, who are not Rwandan nationals, will be...
Sexual violence surged amid war in DRC’s North Kivu last year: UN
Al Jazeera
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August 14, 2025
A total of 22,000 cases registered in province in 2023; in first five months of 2024, figure had already reached 17,000. Healthcare providers in the war-torn eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) treated more than 17,000 victims of sexual...