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Why Rwanda banned sale of unrefrigerated meat

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Rwanda has banned the supply and sale of meat that is not chilled in cold-rooms for at least 24 hours as means to curb zoonotic and transmissible diseases. According to the Registration and Licensing Specialist at Rwanda Inspectorate, Competition and Consumer Protection Authority (RICA) Gaspard Simbarikure, the directive is based on regulation governing meat businesses adopted in May 2022 but which was not adequately being enforced. He said that the directive is not for beef or pork only since ‘each animal species can have zoonotic and or transmissible diseases.’ Zoonosis is an infection or disease that is transmissible from animals to…

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Malnutrition in pregnancy surges in poor countries

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The number of pregnant women and girls who are suffering from malnutrition has soared by 25% in the last two years, the UN children’s agency Unicef says. The world’s poorest regions, such as Somalia, Ethiopia and Afghanistan, have been most affected, its report finds. Unicef estimates that more than one billion women and adolescent girls worldwide are malnourished. It says recent crises including war and Covid have made it increasingly hard for them to get the food they need. Unicef has urged the international community to make food security a…

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15 Qualities Of A Good Husband That Make A Man A Great Spouse

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When searching for a long-term partner or soulmate, women (and men, too) often have the misguided notion that they need to find their soul twin, with all of the same likes, dislikes, hobbies, taste in music and food, and (the list can go on and on). However, the primary quality among the most essential ones in a good husband is compatibility, not to be mistaken with comparability. Can you imagine how monotonous your time together would become — and fast? Compatibility is critical when finding someone who will help bring balance…

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Half of the world on track to be overweight or obese by 2035

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The World Obesity Federation predicts that 51 percent of the world will be overweight, and one in four people will be obese.More than half of the world’s population will be overweight or obese by 2035 without significant action, according to a new report. The World Obesity Federation’s 2023 atlas predicts that 51 percent of the world, or more than four billion people, will be obese or overweight within the next 12 years; of those, nearly two million, or one in four people, will have obesity. Rates of obesity are rising…

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Ukraine war: Kyiv orders evacuation in Kupiansk, city it recaptured last year

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Ukraine has told some residents to leave Kupiansk, as Russia seeks to re-take the city it left last year. Kharkiv’s military command urged families and those “with limited mobility” to leave due to “constant” shelling by Russian forces. Russia took the city, an important supply hub, early in the full-scale invasion, with Ukraine re-capturing it last September. Meanwhile, Wagner group says it troops have “practically encircled” Bakhmut. Earlier this week, President Volodymyr Zelensky admitted the situation in Bakhmut – around 130km (80 miles) south of Kupiansk – was becoming “more and…

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Israeli diplomat removed from African Union summit

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A bloc official says the envoy was removed because she was not duly accredited to attend the event in Ethiopia. A senior Israeli diplomat has been removed from the African Union’s annual summit in Ethiopia as a dispute over Israel’s accreditation to the bloc escalated. A video posted on social media showed security personnel walking Ambassador Sharon Bar-Li out of the auditorium during the opening ceremony of the summit in Addis Ababa on Saturday. Ebba Kalondo, the spokesperson for the African Union’s chairman, said the diplomat was removed because she…

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Rwanda up 47 places in new global internet speed report

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Rwanda made the biggest leap in fixed broadband speeds, with the result that its position in the global rankings raised by 47 places, according to Speedtest Global Index by Ookla, a global network intelligence and connectivity research firm. Beyond Rwanda, the report indicates, a number of African countries have surged in global rankings that gauge internet speeds at telcos and internet service providers, thanks in part to the intensity of investments into network infrastructure as well as deployment. ALSO READ: Rwanda tops Africa in internet speed By the end of…

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No tents, no aid, nothing: Why Syrians feel forgotten

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The tents are so close to the border wall between Syria and Turkey, they are almost touching it. Those living here on the Syrian side may have been displaced by the country’s more than decade-old civil war. But they could also be survivors of the earthquake. Catastrophes overlap in Syria. The earthquake, untroubled by international borders, has brought havoc to both countries. But the international relief effort has been thwarted by checkpoints. In southern Turkey, thousands of rescue workers with heavy lifting gear, paramedics and sniffer dogs have jammed the…

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Fighting malnutrition: Golden Rice and the EU’s GMO conundrum

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“This rice could save a million kids a year”, read the July 2000 cover of Time Magazine, referring to a genetically modified rice, “Golden Rice”, that had been biofortified with life-saving nutrition.  But in the nearly two decades that have passed since then, the cultivation of genetically biofortified crops, such as Golden Rice, to help solve the global humanitarian crisis of “malnutrition” remains elusive. One major reason for the delay has been the systematic opposition to all forms of GMOs and genetic engineering by radical interest groups including Greenpeace and…

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Youth, key actors on strengthening the use of biotechnology in agriculture- Dr NDUWUMUREMYI

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By Diane NIKUZE NKUSI The growth rate of the world population continues to increase day by day. World population projected to reach 9.8 billion in 2050 as United Nations revealed. It means that the resulting in a serious need to increase agricultural production by all means, among them there is the use of modern biotechnology in the production of genetically modified crops. This will mean obtaining sufficient, healthy, safe and nutritious food needed to feed the world’s growing population. Since Rwanda’s population is made up of young people, they can bring innovative…

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