Rwanda

Rwanda (/ruːˈɑːndə/ or /ruːˈændə/ ( listen); Kinyarwanda: U Rwanda [u.ɾɡwanda]), officially the Republic of Rwanda (Kinyarwanda: Repubulika y'u Rwanda; French: République du Rwanda), is a sovereign state in central and east Africa and one of the smallest countries on the African mainland. Located a few degrees south of the Equator, Rwanda is bordered by Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Rwanda is in the African Great Lakes region and is highly elevated; its geography dominated by mountains in the west and savanna to the east, with numerous lakes throughout the country. The climate is temperate to subtropical, with two rainy seasons and two dry seasons each year.

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Africa's Youth Population, Poverty Spurs Gates Foundation's Giving

Voa News 18 Sep 2018

"If the world makes the right investments in health and nutrition and education," she said, it could unleash the potential of "an amazing generation that has unbelievable ingenuity." ... health, education and agriculture. Health ... …" The report praised Rwanda for building "an effective health system" that has brought about "the steepest drop in child mortality ever recorded." ... in health, in education, in agriculture....

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Bill Gates wants the world’s leaders to invest in Africa’s young people

The Herald-Sun 18 Sep 2018

Decades of progress in the global war against poverty could stall as population growth surges in some of the world’s poorest regions, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation warns in a new report that calls for boosting investments in health and education in Africa ... Rwanda, once ravaged by genocide, has built an effective health system, resulting in what the report says is the “steepest drop in child mortality ever recorded.”....

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Study Finds Cash Transfer More Beneficial Than Traditional Development Aid

CBS News 17 Sep 2018

... the health and financial standing of a country ... Research results indicated that this program helped improve health knowledge and vaccination rates in Rwanda, but the traditional aid didn’t create more diversity in the diets of the children....

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Rwanda campaigns for green growth to reduce disaster risk

Coastweek 14 Sep 2018

KIGALI  Rwanda (Xinhua) -- ... “From January to June this year, Rwanda was severely affected by natural disasters caused by heavy rain which claimed at least 222 people ... KIGALI Rwanda (Xinhua) --. The campaign, dubbed “Free to Shine Rwanda,” seeks to increase awareness, strengthen ownership and accountability to end HIV/AIDS among children and keep mothers alive and healthy, according to the Rwandan ministry of health....

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Tension Brews Between Auditor-General, Audit Service Board

Peace FM Online 13 Sep 2018

Bad blood is brewing between the Auditor-General and the Audit Service Board ... Edward Dua Agyeman, were interfering in his line of work ... Agyeman interfered in the work of the Audit Service by instructing a Deputy Auditor-General, Mrs Roberta Assiamah-Appiah, to invite an audit team conducting special audit at the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) to a meeting while he (Mr Domelevo) was away in Kigali, Rwanda on official duties....

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Auditor-General Petitions President Over Interference By Board Chairman

Peace FM Online 12 Sep 2018

Edward Dua Agyeman ... Mr ... According to Mr ... In another instance, the Auditor-General said the Board Chair, who served as Auditor-General between 2001 and 2009 in the administration of President John Agyekuma Kufuor, instructed another Deputy Auditor-General, Mrs Roberta Assiamah-Appiah to invite an audit team conducting special audit at the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) to a meeting while he was away in Kigali, Rwanda ... ....

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Rwanda launches campaign to end mother-to-child HIV transmission

Xinhua 10 Sep 2018

10 (Xinhua) -- Rwanda on Monday launched a national campaign ... The campaign, dubbed "Free to Shine Rwanda," seeks to increase awareness, strengthen ownership and accountability to end HIV/AIDS among children and keep mothers alive and healthy, according to the Rwandan ministry of health....

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The Health Legendary Honours Africa

Peace FM Online 06 Sep 2018

... sector in Africa, Ghana’s First Lady H.E Rebecca Akuffo Addo, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, Dr Mae Carol Jemison, Dr Ola Orekunrin (Flying Doctors), Dr Ken Aboah, Didier Drogba, the Republic of Cuba, the Republic of Rwanda and others are the next batch of notable health development Crusaders and advocates to receive the 2018 Health Africa Honours....

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Why Health Officials Are Afraid the Ebola Outbreak in the Congo Could Get Way Worse

Gizmodo 03 Sep 2018

On 1 August 2018, the Ministry of Health of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) declared a new outbreak of Ebola in North Kivu, one of the most populous provinces in the country ... The conflict pits the DRC military against the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), a lingering offshoot of the militants responsible for the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda, among other combatants....

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McLaren's Ruhumuliza gives back to native Rwanda

Petoskey News-Review 31 Aug 2018

PETOSKEY — The Rwanda genocide of nearly 800,000 Tutsi is a sad history of a beautiful country ... Today, Rwanda is pushing forward and has established hospitals and health care that can serve the country, however, they still need assistance ... “I want to make sure that Rwanda has the best health care possible, so I am enlisting the best cardiologists I know and they are here at McLaren Northern Michigan,” Ruhumuliza said....

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Africa’s underdevelopment: The part played by politics and religion

Joy Online 31 Aug 2018

For example, between the years of 2000-2011, Rwanda achieved the second highest growth in the human development index, with an average annual increase of about 2.92%, progresses made in education, health, and economy accounts for this increase in recent years ... Rwanda has roughly 440 well-equipped health centres which are operational with enough beds and ambulances at each centre....

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Congo's Ebola outbreak still spreading, with possible signs of hope

CNN 31 Aug 2018

(CNN)The ongoing outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo is at "a key juncture," the World Health Organization said Friday ... Cases of Ebola are being reported in five health zones in North Kivu province and one health zone in Ituri, both in the northeastern part of the country ... That's the good news, but there are still new cases and concerns among health workers over containing the virus....

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UN food relief agency airlifts aid to DR Congo province hit by Ebola outbreak

United Nations 30 Aug 2018

Humanitarian Aid ... “This tenth Ebola outbreak is unfolding in an area of active armed conflict and displacement. It poses a risk of a regional health emergency involving three countries – DRC, Rwanda and Uganda,” said Claude Jibidar, WFP Country Director, in a press release ... WFP also has been providing logistical support to the DRC’s Ministry of Health and its sister UN agency, the World Health Organization (WHO) ... Home page ....

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