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.
ThinkBIG, The Gate House and City of JoyRwanda. ThinkBIG helps families battling pediatric cancer by helping with expenses not covered by health insurance ... City of Joy Rwanda, is a school for low-income children in the Southern ...
SDLP Councillor, Lilian Seenoi-Barr, who is also the founder and director of North West Migrants Forum, proposed that TEO should join their colleagues on the Welsh and Scottish governments by refusing to comply with the provisions of the Nationality and BordersAct 2022 which mandates authorities to “forcibly remove asylum seekers to Rwanda”.
HigherSpecialist Trainee in Psychiatry Emma Saliba has sought to take it to the next level as she delivered the MentalHealth and High School Curriculum Guide training to a number of professionals in Rwanda, with the aim of increasing mental health literacy ... students in Rwanda.
The first asylum seekers slated to be sent to Rwanda under a controversial new policy will be informed this week by the UK Home Office... Meanwhile, the threat of deportation to Rwanda is already negatively impacting the physical and mental health of asylum seekers, according to advocates.
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Ministers’ threats to send unauthorised migrants to Rwanda are having a detrimental impact on the physical and psychological health of people seeking asylum, according to two major refugee charities ...Priti Patel blames lawyers as she admits Rwanda plan will ‘take time’.
Recently announced immigration measures are already having a detrimental impact on the physical and psychological health of people seeking asylum in the UK, according to the British Red Cross and the Refugee Council... impact the threat being expelled to Rwanda is having on them.
Over the past week, regulators in countries including Egypt, Rwanda, Kenya and Southern Africa have issued alerts, recalls and importation bans over concerns about the safety of the product ... Rwanda's Food and Drug Authority also started an inspection into the 'Indomie chicken flavour' product over health concerns and asked for imports to stop.
PROTECTING HEALTH WORKERS ...PMI has invested $8.5 million in Rwanda, Senegal, and Burkina Faso to strengthen integrated and equitable care by equipping community health workers with tools needed to be better-connected to other health workers, bring care to unreached populations, and improve access to near real-time data.
The UKHome Office acknowledged that asylum seekers who identify as LGBTQ+ are more likely to face discrimination in Rwanda, but has not ruled out the deportation of vulnerable people to East Africa... The paper documented incidents of LGBTQ+ individuals facing discrimination in employment, health and the justice sector in the East African country.
Chinese staff members check the water quality of a borehole in Gatsibo district, Eastern Province, Rwanda, on April 11, 2022 ... KIGALI, May 6 (Xinhua) -- Thousands of residents in eastern Rwanda once did not have easy access to clean and safe water due to recurrent drought ... China-aided borehole project boosts water access in eastern Rwanda.