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world Rwanda-backed rebels massacred civilians in Congo, Human Rights Watch says
Asiaone
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August 20, 2025
Rwanda-backed M23 rebels killed at least 140 people in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in July, Human Rights Watch said in a report on Wednesday (Aug 20) that highlighted how violence remains elevated despite the US- and Qatar-backed peace...
Despite Peace Accords, Rwanda-Backed Rebels Kill 140 Civilians in DR Congo
HumAngle
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August 20, 2025
The M23 rebels, a militant group backed by Rwanda, have been accused of killing civilians aimlessly in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo). According to a report by Human Rights Watch (HRW), published on Wednesday, Aug. 20, the rebels...
Woman is tied between two trees and gang-raped by six men while dozens of women and children are slaughtered in horrific new outbreak of Rwanda-Congo rebel violence
Daily Mail
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August 20, 2025
Women gang-raped and tied between trees, civilians executed with machetes, hospitals stormed, and children slaughtered with their bodies dumped into rivers. This is the grim reality in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where a...
Factors Associated with Cervical Cancer Screening Uptake Among Women Attending Outpatient Department in a Rural District Hospital in Uganda. A Cross-Sectional Study
Dove Medical Press
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August 20, 2025
Jimmy Ekinu,1 Emmanuel Tiyo Ayikobua,2 Elizabeth Icodu,1 Hellen Akurut,1 Olympia Olivia Akot,1 Steven Oder,1 John Micheal Opinya,1 Tonny Egau,1 David Aderu,3 Moses Eremu,4 James Daniel Odongo,5 Walter Dreak Erabu,5 Ronald Opito1 1Department of...
Rwandan e-motorbike maker Ampersand secures funding for East African expansion
Technext
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August 15, 2025
Rwandan-based electric motorbike manufacturer Ampersand has raised an undisclosed fee in a funding round. The new fund, which represents fresh working capital, will allow the company to expand its operations across East Africa. The round was...
Tariffs and MFN Policy Power a Broad, Confusing Pharma War
BioSpace
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August 20, 2025
Never before has the pharmaceutical industry had to consider international trade agreements in its daily business. The matter was settled in 1994, until Donald Trump returned to the White House with a blizzard of confusing policy proposals, from...
World Reuters Rwanda-backed rebels massacred civilians in Congo, Human Rights Watch says
Yahoo News
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(Reuters) -Rwanda-backed M23 rebels killed at least 140 people in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in July, Human Rights Watch said in a report on Wednesday that highlighted how violence remains elevated despite the U.S.- and Qatar-backed...
Clinical Officer who confessed in Church to killing transferred to Kabale
Independent (Uganda)
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August 15, 2025
Clinton Mwesiime Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A 24-year-old clinical officer who, over the weekend, confessed in church to killing a 45-year-old woman in a lodge has been transferred from Kampala to Kabale for further investigations....
Hugo Broos reveals why Mamelodi Sundowns stars are absent from Bafana Bafana lineup
IOL
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August 29, 2025
When Bafana Bafana coach Hugo Broos announced his squad for the upcoming FIFA World Cup qualifiers, it may have raised a few eyebrows to see a number of key Mamelodi Sundowns names missing. CAF Group C leaders Bafana will take on Lesotho on...
Africa Green Opportunity Index: AGESI’s new lens for sustainable investment
Peoples Gazette
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August 29, 2025
For decades, the dominant narrative surrounding Africa in global investment circles has been one of risk management. However, a confluence of global megatrends and unique continental advantages is forcing a fundamental reassessment. The global...
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...
“A diagnosis of the Ghanaian disease by “Anon”
Ghanaian Times
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August 19, 2025
In a world beset by war, corruption, and environmental destruction, many assume that the greatest threat to humanity is evil or malice. But Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German theologian who resisted Nazism and paid with his life, believed otherwise....
How Africa-led clinical trials are shaping vaccine science
The Standard
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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 made it unmistakably clear: that era is over. African scientists are...
The Latest: RFK Jr. adviser will serve as acting CDC leader after director’s firing, AP source says
Yuma Sun - Arizona
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Jim O’Neill, a top deputy to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., will serve as acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to an administration official who requested anonymity to discuss a personnel change...
Windhoek, Swakopmund attracting foreign millionaires
Windhoek Observer
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Chamwe Kaira Windhoek and Swakopmund are expected to see a rise in high-net-worth residents over the next decade, alongside Mombasa in Kenya, according to Henley & Partners’ Africa Wealth Report 2025. The report highlighted Namibia’s lack of...
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...
Over 500 UN employees urge rights chief to designate Gaza as genocide
Press TV
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A large group of UN staff at the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) have formally urged chief Volker Turk to explicitly describe the Israeli military actions in the Gaza Strip as ongoing genocide. In a letter, they said the...
Coding Against The Odds: Redefining Stereotypes Through African Girls Can Code Initiative (AGCCI) In Rwanda
MENAFN
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August 18, 2025
(MENAFN- African Press Organization) NEW YORK, United States of America, August 18, 2025/APO Group/ -- From 23 July to 4 August 2025, UN Women, in collaboration with the Ministry of ICT and Innovation (MINICT), the Ministry of Education (MINEDUC),...
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
Sexual Health Rights: Contradictions in East African Laws, Policies
Inter Press Service
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August 18, 2025
Africa, Civil Society, Crime & Justice, Development & Aid, Featured, Gender, Headlines, Health, Human Rights, Population, Sustainable Development Goals, TerraViva United Nations, Women's Health, Youth Population Abortion is illegal in Uganda....