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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
Kenya is on high alert after neighboring Tanzania confirmed an outbreak of Marburg virus disease (MVD) in the northwestern Kagera region.
Africa

Kenya on alert after Tanzania confirms Marburg outbreak

Wednesday, January 22, 2025
Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the Director-General of the World Health Organisation.
International

WHO says hopes US ‘will reconsider’ intent to withdraw

Tuesday, January 21, 2025
Kirehe District authorities are collaborating with Rwanda Biomedical Center (RBC) to ensure necessary preventive protocols are in place.
Health

Kirehe mayor ‘raising awareness’ after suspected Marburg outbreak in Tanzania

Wednesday, January 15, 2025
The Marburg viral disease was the most news-dominating topic for Rwanda in 2024
Health

The year Rwanda fought off two epidemics and achieved key milestones in delivering healthcare services

Friday, January 03, 2025
Cardinal Antoine Kambanda leads the mass on New Year's Day at St Michel Catholic Parish in Kigali. Photos by Emmanuel Dushimimana
Rwanda

PHOTOS: Clerics urge action against major global threats in new year sermons

Wednesday, January 01, 2025
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
The Director General of the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), Dr Jean Kaseya addresses the opening of the 52nd Board Meeting of the Global Fund on Tuesday in Lilongwe, Malawi
Health

Africa CDC chief emphasises need for local manufacturing of drugs

Thursday, November 21, 2024
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced that Rwanda achieved a significant milestone in its efforts to combat the Marburg virus disease outbreak on November 9
Marburg Virus

WHO hails Rwanda Marburg 'milestone'

Saturday, November 09, 2024
The two remaining patients of the Marburg virus disease in Rwanda recovered on Friday, November 8, bringing the total recoveries to 51.
Marburg Virus

Marburg virus ‘under control’ as all patients recovered

Friday, November 08, 2024