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Between 2023 and 2024, the Rwanda Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) recalled 14 medicines and over two dozen batches due to safety and quality concerns.
Health

How and when does Rwanda FDA recall pharmaceutical products?

Friday, November 29, 2024
A view on the newly completed flood retention dam designed to contain the floods caused by River Sebeya in Rubavu District. Courtesy
Environment

Day for Disaster Risk Reduction: 10 Key measures Rwanda has taken

Sunday, October 13, 2024
Rwanda is set to apply antiviral drug remdesivir for emergency use in response to the ongoing Marburg Virus Disease (MVD) outbreak. COURTESY
Health

What is Remdesivir, the drug Rwanda will use for Marburg virus response?

Saturday, October 05, 2024
A health worker administers a vaccine. American pharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences will donate thousands of vials of its antiviral drug remdesivir to Rwanda. Photo by Craish Bahizi
Health

Marburg virus: Gilead confirms remdesivir drug donation to Rwanda

Friday, October 04, 2024
The Minister of Health, Dr Sabin Nsanzimana, meets medical personnel to console with them after losing colleagues to the Marburg virus on Tuesday, October 1. Photo: Courtesy.
Health

Eight key questions about the Marburg virus answered

Friday, October 04, 2024
Rwanda will host the inaugural East Africa Pharma and Biotech Conference in Kigali on September 17-19, 2024. The country is also home to Africa's first mRNA vaccine plant.

Time is Now: Africa’s quest to become a global biomedicine hub

Monday, September 16, 2024
Workers sort fresh chilli for export at NAEB in Kigali. Fisher Global Ltd based in Rwamagana District, exports 20 containers of dried chilli (amounting to about 300 tonnes as a container holds 15 tonnes) to the Asian country annually. File
Business

Rwanda needs $470m to unlock chili industry

Monday, September 16, 2024
R-L; Four chefs who contributed to the book, Ramadhan Sindayigaya, Angelique Iraguha, Phiona Ninsiima, and Eric Kanyemera, pose for a photo at its launch in Kigali, on September 4, 2024 (All photos by Emmanuel
Rwanda

Meet the four chefs behind the first Rwandan cuisine book

Saturday, September 07, 2024
Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers his remarks during the opening ceremony of the 2024 Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) Summit. Courtesy
International

Xi’s statement at 2024 FOCAC Summit opening ceremony

Thursday, September 05, 2024
Glossopharyngeal neuralgia is a condition characterised by severe, stabbing pain in the ear, base of the tongue, tonsil, or beneath the angle of the jaw. iNTERNET

Harnessing AI for the unseen: A call to action for rare diseases like glossopharyngeal neuralgia

Monday, September 02, 2024
The Minister of Youth and Arts, Dr. Abdallah Utumatwishima.
Politics

Shaping the narrative: How youth are leveraging tech in political discourse

Friday, August 30, 2024
Thousands of believers during a prayer session at the long awaited Rwanda Revival Conference that saw a multitude of believers from Rwanda and neighbouring countries flock BK Arena on February 4. Photo by Dan Kwizera Gatsinzi

State should be applauded for protecting society’s meekest from fraudster pastors

Monday, August 19, 2024