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A Community Health Worker educates residents about malnutrition in Karongi District on December 9. Photos by Olivier Mugwiza
Health

Four reasons why community health workers could join Rwanda’s savings and credit cooperative

Saturday, January 25, 2025
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Health

Ditch the salt shaker, protect your heart – experts

Saturday, January 25, 2025
A community health worker instructs a pregnant woman and her husband in Karongi. Community Health workers will start tracking and managing hypertension. Olivier Mugwiza
Health

Community health workers to start screening high blood pressure

Thursday, January 23, 2025
Delegates pose for a group photo at the inaugural conference and exhibition to advance biosafety and biosecurity in Rwanda on Friday, January 17. Photos by Craish Bahizi
Featured

FEATURED: Kigali: A look at first biosafety, biosecurity conference and exhibition

Thursday, January 23, 2025
A view of a dried beans plantation in Eastern Province. Rwanda has recorded 2024 as the hottest year, with temperatures 1.1 degrees Celsius higher than those before the industrial revolution.File
Environment

Rwanda says 2024 hottest year on record

Thursday, January 23, 2025
Panelists engage in a discussion at the International Conference on Neglected Tropical Disease Research in Africa on Monday, January 20. Photo by Craish Bahizi
Health

Innovative strategies for Africa’s NTD burden take centre stage at global conference in Kigali

Tuesday, January 21, 2025
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International

Trump orders US to leave World Health Organization

Tuesday, January 21, 2025
Senators will this week start to assess the progress in the performance of health posts countrywide, through a field visit across all districts.

Senators embark on tour to assess health posts

Tuesday, January 21, 2025
An agric worker sorts seedlings in an Irish potato multiplication centre in Kinigi in Musanze District. Photo by Sam Ngendahimana
Agriculture

Rwanda to boost nutrition with bio-fortified Irish potato varieties

Monday, January 20, 2025
Stakeholders who gathered in Kigali to validate and discuss findings from a new NTDs assessment
Health

Bugesera and Ruhango: Assessment highlights urgent water, sanitation gaps in NTDs fight

Friday, January 17, 2025
Unsourced meat being destroyed in Musanze District on January 8. Photos by RICA.
Crime

Govt intensifies crackdown on illegal meat traders

Thursday, January 16, 2025
A patient undergoes an eye screening at Rwanda Charity Eye Hospital, l in Bishenyi, Runda sector, Kamonyi district. Photo by Willy Mucyo
Health

Glaucoma: How is Rwanda combating the “silent thief of vision?”

Thursday, January 16, 2025