{"id":8794,"date":"2023-08-03T12:03:31","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T12:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/?p=8794"},"modified":"2026-02-01T14:09:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T14:09:35","slug":"rwanda-welcomes-medical-students-fleeing-sudan-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/8794\/rwanda-welcomes-medical-students-fleeing-sudan-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda welcomes medical students fleeing Sudan war"},"content":{"rendered":"

A group of medical students from Sudan has been welcomed to Rwanda to continue their studies after a civil war erupted in mid-April.<\/p>\n

Their campus at the University of Medical Sciences and Technology was overrun and turned into a base by fighters in the capital, Khartoum, where paramilitary forces and the army are involved in a power struggle.<\/p>\n

The 160 undergraduates, who were eight months away from completing their course, have been offered space, along with their lecturers, at the University of Rwanda.<\/p>\n

The group, who are mainly made up of women, will also be practising in local hospitals.<\/p>\n

One of the students,\u00a0Dina Abdalrahim Obaid<\/strong>, told a function in the capital, Kigali, what the welcome meant:<\/p>\n

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We are grateful to Rwanda that offered us refuge and opportunity to continue our studies.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Prof Mamoun Mohamed Ali Homeida<\/strong>, vice-chancellor of the Sudanese university, emphasised how lucky they felt, as many other students had fled to different countries \u201cwith no chance to carry on their studies\u201d.<\/p>\n

The academic added:<\/p>\n

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We requested to come to Rwanda because we hope that when the war is over, our country will need medics.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

While in Rwanda, the students will continue with their Sudanese curriculum but train in local hospitals, confirmed Didas Muganga Kayihura, the University of Rwanda\u2019s vice-chancellor.<\/p>\n

Officials said that the trainee medics were expected to return home when they finished – or if fighting was still continuing, they would get the opportunity to work in Rwanda or elsewhere.<\/p>\n

In 2021 a private girls\u2019 boarding school moved its students and staff to Rwanda after the Taliban took over in Afghanistan banning higher education for girls and women.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A group of medical students from Sudan has been welcomed to Rwanda to continue their studies after a civil war erupted in mid-April. Their campus at the University of Medical Sciences and Technology was overrun and turned into a base by fighters in the capital, Khartoum, where paramilitary forces and the army are involved in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8795,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"BBC","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"0","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"0","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"0","show_popup_post":"0","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,29,31],"tags":[140,1312,1313],"class_list":["post-8794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-analysis-reports","category-east-africa","category-north-africa","tag-rwanda","tag-sudan-civil-war","tag-university-of-rwanda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19609,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8794\/revisions\/19609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}