Banyarwanda

• Takeda ( TSE:4502/NYSE:TAK ) today announced five new partnerships to its Global Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Program, which contribute to strengthening health systems in low- and middle-income countries.
• Takeda expects that Global CSR Program’s new five partnerships will bring its reach to 25.2 million people in 92 countries by 2028.
• There are no quick fixes to global health challenges, which are complex, multi-dimensional and context dependent.
• Health Information Systems: Developed, enhanced, or implemented 49 digital solutions, platforms, or tools to support data-informed health planning and health decision-making.

• The Central African Republic (CAR) is one of the poorest countries in the world.
• The nation of roughly 5 million people has been in political turmoil since a violent takeover of power in 2013.
• In an attempt to gain back control, the government unleashed a campaign led by the Russian mercenaries, the Wagner Group, in 2020.
• This is an astonishing mortality rate, in terms of how people are suffering and how wrong the official statistics are.
• While some humanitarian actors are doing their best to respond, the crisis-level mortality rate suggests that the needs in the CAR are largely unmet.

Mortality

• One was in the part of the country within the government’s control (roughly half of the country), and one in the areas mostly outside its control.
• We found that the birth rate was lower and the death rate markedly higher in areas outside government control.
• Only 15% had received food aid distributions in 2022 despite high levels of malnutrition recorded in the country.
• Another cost is that people are forced to make informal and illegitimate payments when trying to get to healthcare facilities.

What next

• Estimates suggest that at least 500,000 of 7 million Rwandans died violently in 1994.
• During Nigeria’s secessionist war in Biafra from 1967 to 1970 between 1 million and 3 million are estimated to have died.
• In particular, are we in the humanitarian community ignoring one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises?

• Flutterwave's new Electronic Money Issuer license allows the company to acquire all types of payment instruments in Rwanda.
• The company's new remittance solution enables $end by Flutterwave to process inbound and outbound cross-border transfers in Rwanda.
• KIGALI, Rwanda, March 15, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Flutterwave, Africa's leading payments technology company, has today announced that it has received its Electronic Money Issuer and Remittance Licenses from the National Bank of Rwanda.
• Flutterwave will be deploying a range of products in Rwanda, including Send by Flutterwave , its cross-border money transfer solution.

• The first tranche of 133,866,000 RFW will support CBHI for 10,822 households with 44,622 beneficiaries, while the second tranche of 22,291,00 RWF will cover CBHI in 1,302 homes.
• View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220525006004/en/
  AHF Rwanda Country Program Manager, Dr Lambert Rangira (3rd from Right), presents the donation to the Rwanda Social Security Board (RSSB) representatives.
• Since 2006, in close collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Rwanda Biomedical Centre, AHF Rwanda has provided significant support towards strengthening healthcare services and their delivery in the country, particularly in the HIV/AIDS response.
• AHF Rwanda is able to achieve all of this by working closely with Civil Society Organisations and the NGO Forum.