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Rwanda Forensic needs Rwf34.5bn to buy high-tech equipment

Friday, May 09, 2025
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Kagame, AIMS’ Neil Turok look to amplify research, engagement with mathematical sciences in Rwanda

Friday, March 21, 2025
President Kagame receives Dr Sherine Abbas Helmy, CEO of Pharco Pharmaceuticals at Village Urugwiro on February 6. Photo by Village Urugwiro
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Kagame, Egyptian drug company boss discuss partnership

Thursday, February 06, 2025
Minister of Justice Emmanuel Ugirashebuja.
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Rwanda now offering forensic services to over 10 countries

Wednesday, January 22, 2025
European Investment Bank (EIB Global) has announced a new financing arrangement towards Akagera Medicines Africa. INTERNET PHOTO
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European Investment Bank backs Akagera’s vaccine development in Rwanda

Monday, October 14, 2024
Paula Ingabire, the Minister of ICT and Innovations holds Rwanda's satellite' RWASAT-1 on May 16, 2019. TRL Space CEO and founder, Petr Kapoun revealed that Rwanda's first hyperspectral satellite is being built. File
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TRL space systems builds satellite for agriculture, environment monitoring

Saturday, October 12, 2024
The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was jointly awarded to two American scientists Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun their work on microRNA.
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Nobel Prize in medicine awarded to mRNA researchers

Monday, October 07, 2024
Rwanda Atomic Energy Board CEO Dr Fidèle Ndahayo (right) and Nano Energy CEO James Walker duringthesigningofanagreement inKigalionWednesday,August13.Photo:DanNsengiyumva.
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Rwanda, Nano Energy sign nuclear development deal

Wednesday, August 14, 2024
Michael C. Fairbanks, the CEO of Akagera Medicines says it has secured over Rwf16.5 billion (€12 million), a round that is expected to allow for capacity-building. Courtesy
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Rwandan biotech firm raises Rwf16 billion to upskill workforce

Sunday, February 04, 2024
Minister of Education Gaspard Twagirayezu and the university’s chancellor Bishop Vincent Harolimana cut a cake as INES-Ruhengeri celebrate the anniversary of 20 years on December 7. Photos by Craish BAHIZI
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FEATURED: INES-Ruhengeri marks 20 years of empowering Rwanda through applied sciences

Saturday, December 09, 2023
The Minister of Education, Gaspard Twagirayezu during an interview. PHOTO BY SAM NGENDAHIMANA
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Education Minister on strategies to tackle shortage of laboratories

Tuesday, October 31, 2023
A health worker administers a Covid-19 vaccine in Kigali on August 23, 2021. CRAISH BAHIZI
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Rwanda’s cooling centre mobilises $25m to improve vaccine supply

Friday, October 20, 2023
The President of the Republic of the Congo, also known as Congo-Brazzaville, Denis Sassou Nguesso has hailed the Rwanda Institute for Conservation Agriculture. All photos by Olivier Mugwiza
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PHOTOS: President Nguesso hails Rwanda agric research centre

Monday, July 24, 2023
Activists during a guided tour of a protected forest in Kayonza. Rwanda is hosting the 2023 International Conference on Conservation Biology (ICCB 2023) slated for July 23-27. Courtesy
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Over 90 country representatives attend conference on conservation biology in Kigali

Sunday, July 23, 2023
The Lower House has requested the Ministry of Education to address the issue of expired laboratory chemicals and products available in some schools in the country, within three months, to avert possible harmful effects on school.
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Expired lab chemicals in schools: MPs urge ‘safe’ disposal

Thursday, July 20, 2023
A plant is pictured on cracked earth after the water level has dropped in the Sau reservoir, north of Barcelona, Spain, April 18, 2023.
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Earth is in danger zone, study says

Thursday, June 01, 2023
Desire Joseph Abayo (L), one of the Rwandan silver medal winners; and Ornella Nina Umukundwa, one of the Rwandans who won bronze medals.
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PHOTOS: Rwandan students win big in math competition

Monday, May 22, 2023
The golden boy digitally unwrapped, stepwise. Image credit - SN Saleem
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Secrets of 2,300-year-old golden boy mummy revealed by CT scans

Monday, May 22, 2023
President Paul Kagame meets with Dr. Sierk Pötting, COO of BioNTech Group at Village Urugwiro, on Monday, March 13. Photo by Village Urugwiro
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Kagame hails arrival of first modular vaccine factory

Tuesday, March 14, 2023
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BioNTech first modular vaccine factory arrives in Rwanda

Monday, March 13, 2023