Africa News

ViewAfrican award established for women technology entrepreneurs

Category will be added to African Union’s Kwame Nkrumah Awards

ViewEuropean Union willing to back African centres of excellence

But African Union remains undecided about proposal from continents’ research universities

ViewGo-ahead for third Europe-Africa clinical trials scheme

Start of €500 million programme imminent after EU endorsement

ViewNewton Fund and GCRF projects ‘won’t be cut in 2022-23’

But UKRI tells aid-funded research projects it will not have money to reimburse 2021-22 cuts

ViewOxford scientists start human trials of Ebola vaccine

Promising vaccine candidate created using the same technology as the university’s Covid-19 jab

ViewUK and Canada launch climate scheme for developing countries

CA$170 million fund will support research on adapting to global heating

ViewCollaboration suffered in race to understand Covid-19

“Unprecedented” pandemic funding resulted in fragmented research

ViewMerging two streams of research management

Outgoing Sarima president Therina Theron embraces a trend that meets African needs

ViewSouth Africa’s $8.5bn green energy deal light on research

US, Europe investment will help Africa’s biggest polluter kick fossil fuel habit

ViewAfrica-Europe innovation plan in the works

Launch set for February 2022 summit in Brussels

ViewNIH awards $75m to African data science projects

Five-year grants aim to strengthen continent’s ability to manage and analyse health data

ViewSKA hosting agreement means construction can begin

Signatures will “bring socio-economic benefits” from astronomy project, South African official says

ViewHancock’s Africa posting sparks ire from continent’s scientists

Former British health secretary’s “tone deaf” UN envoy appointment “beggars belief”

ViewRwandan wins African women in science honour

Paediatrician and former health minister recognised for public healthcare role

ViewCovid and funding cuts ‘devastate’ fight against TB

Diagnosed and treated people expected to drop by 1.2 million worldwide in 2021

ViewNantWorks to inject US$200m into South African R&D partnership

Cutting-edge vaccine platform among technology company’s ambitions

ViewAAS upheaval: Wellcome vows to keep Deltas scheme flowing

Funder said it aims to minimise disruption to flagship African training programme

ViewCape Town funds joint projects with Palestinian researchers

One project will focus on “historical similarities” between apartheid-era South Africa and occupied Palestinian territories

ViewCharles Rotimi to steer US genetics institute

Nigerian becomes first Africa-born scientist to take NIH scientific director post

ViewAfrican study turns ‘pandemic preparedness’ on its head

“Least vulnerable” countries were worst affected by Covid-19

ViewEthiopia and South Africa forge science pact

Agreement to target research collaboration and joint training and mobility programmes

ViewBiotech business explores mRNA vaccine production in West Africa

Senegal and Rwanda set to benefit from partnership with Germany’s BioNTech

ViewTen ‘rules’ that could halt helicopter research

Checklist to help developed country scholars engage with southern counterparts

ViewGlobal south under-represented in economic development research

“Practices and paradigms” exclude southern researchers, paper claims

ViewHealth, food and environment prove SA’s Horizon 2020 strengths

ICT and transport research less successful

ViewSA rural biodiversity grant targets conservation and jobs

The investment will be climate smart, says World Bank

ViewWest Africans dominate engineering innovation prize

Biowaste processor for smallholder farmers takes main award

ViewGermany funds studies to probe its colonial history

African applicants encouraged for programme that will support PhDs

ViewEU launches Africa research collaboration portal

Website touted as ‘one-stop-shop’ for policymakers and researchers

ViewAfrican scientists urged to heed changes to NIH funding

Failure to comply could disqualify applications