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Rubavu District Mayor Prosper Mulindwa speaking in a press conference on Thursday, December 19. Photos by Germain Nsanzimana
Security

Rubavu: Mayor says festive season security guaranteed

Saturday, December 21, 2024
The Ministry of Health plans to adopt advanced technologies, including GPS tracking, to monitor bat migration and behaviour. Courtesy
Health

Rwanda to use GPS to monitor bats for zoonotic diseases

Friday, December 20, 2024
Assiel Ngarambe, CHUK’s longest serving morgue attendant, inside the hospital's morgue. Photos by Willy Mucyo
Health

CHUK’s longest-serving morgue attendant who dignifies the dead

Friday, December 20, 2024
Medics during the Marburg response earlier this year . Rwanda is expected to declare the end of the Marburg Virus Disease outbreak on Friday, December 20. File
Health

Rwanda set to declare Marburg outbreak over

Thursday, December 19, 2024
A medic takes care of a patient at King Faisal Hospital. Scientists are increasingly alarmed by the growing threat of zoonotic diseases—infections that jump from animals to humans. File
Health

Covid, Mpox, bird flu, MVD: Why viruses jump from animals to humans

Wednesday, December 18, 2024
President Kagame virtually addresses delegates during the inauguration of the World Health Organization Academy in Lyon, in France on December 17. Photo by Village Urugwiro
Health

Kagame: New WHO academy key in boosting health workers’ capacity

Tuesday, December 17, 2024
Business people on their way to Goma town. Photos by Germain Nsanzimana
Rwanda

Rwanda-DR Congo border sees surge in people movement

Thursday, December 12, 2024
Farmers try to salvage their rice produce from a flooded plantation in the aftermath of heavy rains in Rwangingo Marshland in Nyagatare District on May 6, 2020. Courtesy
Environment

Climate shocks impede SDGs progress as Rwanda records 10,000 disasters in 8 years

Thursday, December 12, 2024
Mzee Tito Rutaremara during the interview with The New Times on November 27 in Kigali. Photo by Olivier Mugwiza
Politics

What keeps Rutaremara awake at night: The other side of the veteran politician

Tuesday, December 10, 2024
An unidentified disease has killed at least 31 people in DR Congo’s Kwango Province. Courtesy
Africa

DR Congo: Mystery disease kills over 30 in remote area

Monday, December 09, 2024
Clare Akamanzi, CEO of NBA Africa discussed about the need for perspective shift, economic potential of sports, and returns on investment in the sector. Courtesy
Africa

NBA Africa’s Akamanzi on sports investment, returns

Monday, December 09, 2024
According to the DR Congo public health ministry, 394 cases and 30 deaths have been reported so far in the Panzi health zone.
Rwanda

WHO joins investigation in DR Congo undiagnosed disease

Saturday, December 07, 2024