An unaccompanied foreign minor does lessons provided by a volunteer in a park in Toulouse, France, October 2017.
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Governments and agencies should prepare second chance opportunities for formal education as emergency situations may last for several years and create a backlog of education.
A gathering of women survivors at a Solace Ministries meeting, near Kigali, Rwanda, in 2010.
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A scholar of the Rwandan genocide argues that while a genocide and a pandemic are very different, the experiences of Rwanda’s survivors may provide lessons on how to heal from pandemic trauma.
Rwanda’s presidential couple at the 2021 genocide commemoration.
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Rwanda’s food policies focus on production to make sure people have livelihoods and enough nutritious food. Not much attention is given to overnutrition.
The competing interests of economic growth and public health aren’t being managed well.
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Due to early logistical planning, Rwanda had the capacity to store 5 million doses before the vaccines arrived.
Countries that adopt ethnic recognition go on to experience less violence, more economic vitality, and more democratic politics.
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Men can practically help their partners access care by assisting with the costs of attending clinical appointments such as transportation, health insurance, and meals while on route to the clinic.
UN soldiers patrol the road where Italy’s ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo was killed.
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For nearly three decades, eastern Congo has been characterised by insecurity, with frequent outbreaks of violence between armed groups and attacks on civilians.
Joe Biden has more top advisers who are women than any other U.S. president. They include Vice President Kamala Harris and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen.
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Industrialisation was key to long-term economic growth in the west and Asia. After years of going in the wrong direction, new research suggests that many African countries have seen a turnaround.
A copper mine in Phalaborwa, South Africa. The African continent is home to vast mineral resources.
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It seems the production of Earth science knowledge in Africa is simply not progressing, despite the world’s interest in (and exploitation of) the continent’s mineral wealth.
High levels of bureaucratic corruption prevail in Rwanda, Uganda and Tanzania.
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People are swayed by social pressure to help relatives, share contacts or reciprocate favours received from their networks. Many also believe that corruption is normal.
A convoy of Pakistani peacekeepers of the UN peacekeeping mission in the DRC patrol around Minembwe, South Kivu province, October 7, 2020.
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While history is often deployed as a weapon in eastern DRC, it also shows us stories of friendship and collaboration.
Professor Christian Happi, director of the African Centre of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases, displays one of the most advanced automated acid extractors being used in the laboratory.
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