Karachi / AFP Camped on the baking concrete outside a gleaming transplant centre, Karachi’s sick have come from miles around in desperate hope for a last chance at life. There, Dr Adibul Rizvi provides free medical care to hundreds of thousands of people each year, providing a much-needed alternative to Pakistan’s public health sector, which critics dismiss as chaotic, …

  Kiziba / AFP Inside a red-brick building with a tin roof in western Rwanda, a group of young people are hard at work studying for a US-accredited university degree. But these are no ordinary students: they are Congolese refugees for whom such a qualification could spell an escape from stateless limbo. Over the past year, a Rwandan charity called …

  ABU DHABI / WAM The UAE Armed Forces signed several memorandums of understanding (MoUs) with a number of local companies to increase the privileges provided to all service people through a social initiative launched earlier this year. The signing of the fifth and the latest batch of MoUs takes the total number of companies and businesses to 220, which …