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ViewEDCTP grants €3m for child healthcare project in Africa

Project will develop guidelines for newborn and child health in Nigeria, Malawi, and South Africa

ViewAfrica news roundup: 29 April to 5 May

This week: INORMS registration, drug discovery partnership, US accolades and more

ViewEnvironmental observation network gets new head

Mary-Jane Bopape is one of Africa’s few Black women meteorologists

ViewUniversity of Cape Town deputy vice-chancellor steps down

Lis Lange quits as head of teaching and learning with immediate effect

ViewAfrica’s science-granting councils are failing women

Equality-promoting funding policies “still in their infancy”, review finds

ViewResearch in a time of war

Ethiopian researchers share how the war in Tigray has upended their lives and careers

ViewOppenheimer donation fuels African ecosystems scheme

Africa-led, Africa-centred programme to influence thinking and action on the continent

ViewAfrican Academy of Sciences elects 31 fellows

Women make up less than one-third of intake

ViewStellenbosch announces next research and innovation head

Sibusiso Moyo to replace Eugene Cloete in influential role at top institution

ViewSouth African science delegation tours Silicon Valley

Minister leads mission to the US seeking insights to inform 10-year science plan

ViewTributes pour in for Black Women in Science founder

Minister, funder mourn loss of South African science champion Ndoni Mcunu

ViewMPs query science response to South Africa floods

Call for action after disaster kills more than 400 in KwaZulu-Natal

ViewSouth Africans prepare to cast off on French research schooner

Floating microbiology lab will study Africa’s west coast under local direction

ViewModest research ambition in Kenya’s 2022 budget

Boost for medical institute but National Research Fund is stuck in a rut

ViewWHO spotlights undercounting of Africa’s Covid cases

True infections could be almost 100 times more than reported

ViewSouth Africa urged to restore respect for scholarship

Law professor Barney Pityana blasts attitudes toward academia

ViewPostgraduate scheme to train African thought leaders

Almost 100 scholarships for exchanges at honours, masters and PhD level

View$3m donation to bolster innovation at Wits

Bequest from US-based entrepreneur and alumni David Fine will fund new chair

ViewThe West’s Ukraine response ‘only hardens positions’

Chair of ANC's foreign policy committee says US and European actions “polarise and divide”

ViewSouth Africa urged to boost R&D on medical device manufacturing

But corruption and red tape must be tackled to fulfil national potential, claims report

ViewSouth Africa deepens science collaboration with Flanders

Partnerships with Belgian region will focus on sustainable development and data science

ViewKenya: A regional science hub with global challenges

Low PhD output, donor dependency and unstable funding cloud country’s research performance

ViewRussia-Ukraine war could worsen African food shortages

Continent urged to diversify supply chains and invest in local production

ViewRwanda launches ‘fourth industrial revolution’ centre

Country’s C4IR wants to be a catalyst for world-leading ethical tech development

ViewSouth Africa’s radio astronomy hub recruits for top post

Successor sought for Rob Adam who has led SARAO since 2016

ViewEuropean and African IP offices reach out to universities

Pilot project is intended to help African universities commercialise their intellectual property

ViewForeign office exacerbated depth of R&D aid cuts, finds NAO report

Audit reveals foreign office chopped extra £90 million from business department’s ODA budget in 2021

ViewRich-country nationals dominate on global health boards

Under-representation of women from low-income countries “a call to the barricades”, report says

ViewSouth African academics probe Assaf’s take on Ukraine

Email sent to academy’s members criticised, but body says it was not “gagged”

ViewResearchers ‘need indemnity’ from South African privacy law

Technicians and scientists face potential liability, say legal scholars