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Rome — The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) will provide a US$9.8 million loan to the Republic of the Congo to help improve food security and incomes of smallholder producers with a particular focus on young people and women. The financing agreement for the Agricultural Value Chains Development Programme was signed today by Gilbert Ondongo, Minister of Finances, Budget and Public Portfolio of the Republic of the Congo, and Kanayo F.
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Yaoundé — The labor market in Cameroon is characterized by a large informal sector, low-paying jobs, and low productivity due partly to the fact that the education system is not geared toward meeting the needs of the jobs market. These are key highlights of the third issue of the Cameroon Economic Update, a publication of the World Bank’s office in the Central African nation
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Arusha — The prosecution and defence have lodged notices of appeal to challenge some findings in the judgment delivered on November 17, 2011 in the case of former Rwandan Mayor Gregoire Ndahimana by a Trial Chamber at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). The former Mayor of Kivumu commune in Kibuye prefecture, Western Rwanda, was sentenced to a 15-year term for genocide and extermination as crime against humanity
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A recent monetary policy statement put insurance penetration in the country at 2.3 percent, after a 12.3 percentage growth last year.
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Rwanda and Uganda have agreed to renovate two entry points at Rwempasha, Nyagatare District and Buhita, Burera District, in order to facilitate trade and cooperation between the two countries. A survey carried out by a joint team from both countries realized that the two points serve as trading routes for low scale businesses, especially by the surrounding communities, and yet could pose a security threat to both countries if they are not well regulated
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Doreen Umutesi, a features writer with The New Times, has been recognized by US Embassy in Rwanda for emerging one of the runners-ups in last year’s photo contest, dubbed ‘Dance With Us: Motion Across Cultures’. According to the embassy Public Affairs Officer, Susan Falatko, Umutesi’s photo was one of the top 20 entries selected from over 2,000 submissions from 129 countries. The photo was selected through a programme run by the U.S
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Over 41 senior faculty members and students from Burundi, Haiti, Rwanda, and the United States gathered in Rwinkwavu, Kayonza District, to launch the Global Health Delivery course, led by Harvard Medical School in conjunction with the Ministry of Health. This is the first time the prestigious Harvard Medical School conducts the course out of their Boston campus. The Global Health Delivery is a course that utilizes a novel educational framework to address the global burden of disease and its complex inter-related social determinants, with the objective of empowering a new generation of leaders in the health sector to bridge the gap between knowledge and practice in health care delivery.
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Rome — The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) will provide a US$9.8 million loan to the Republic of the Congo to help improve food security and incomes of smallholder producers with a particular focus on young people and women. The financing agreement for the Agricultural Value Chains Development Programme was signed today by Gilbert Ondongo, Minister of Finances, Budget and Public Portfolio of the Republic of the Congo, and Kanayo F. Nwanze, President of IFAD.
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Maternal health is very important and impacts not only the mother and child but the whole family.
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Brazzaville — Health authorities in the Republic of Congo have recorded 340 cases of cholera, nine of them fatal, since June 2011, in the northern district of Likouala, and have warned that the disease continues to spread and that some health centres lack sufficient treatment. “Some deaths have not been taken into account because the [deceased's] families have not reported them,” said Jean Martin Mabiala, the doctor in charge of health services in the district, adding that there were other suspected cases that had not been confirmed because of the remoteness of their locations.
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