Africa News

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

ViewAfrica-wide commercialisation centre launched in SA

Stellenbosch to host institution charged with upscaling innovations

ViewVolcanologists claim ‘neocolonial’ practices hamper their work

Research partnership row at Democratic Republic of the Congo volcano centre follows deadly eruption

ViewAfrica-Europe summit postponed until 2022

Meeting hit by coronavirus delays was originally slated for 2020

ViewSKA construction ‘imminent’, say project leaders

Next phase for giant radio telescope project on track after Covid-19 delays

ViewMillions of euros for Africa in Horizon Europe calls

Funding for collaboration offers bonanza for researchers

ViewMalawi to get $100m to reorient higher education to economic needs

World Bank loan will prioritise women and train lecturers and professors

ViewMacron declares a ‘personal problem’ with Covax

France’s president calls out “dysfunctional” vaccine-access operation

ViewRwandan ex-minister to lead UK university office in Kigali

Former education minister Silas Lwakabamba chosen to lead Coventry University’s Africa Hub

ViewCape Town declaration to fold fairness into research integrity

Equitable partnerships an essential aspect of good research practice, meeting hears

ViewEurope promises €1bn for vaccine manufacturing in Africa

Funds will establish manufacturing hubs in ‘high potential’ countries

ViewSouth Africa and Canada link up on industry PhDs

Programme could help universities leverage extra income

ViewSA and Brazil pin hopes on industry to boost space ambitions

National agencies “can’t have all the answers”

ViewJapan-based health fund invests in neglected diseases

Projects will target Leishmaniasis, Buruli ulcer and Chagas disease

ViewSoft skills could help Kenyans win more funding

Help needed to end unequal relationship with Global North

ViewUK cuts a ‘disaster’ for African research

Researchers bemoan partnerships broken by ‘the stroke of a pen’

ViewVolatile funding ‘bad for science’, says UKRI international champion

Christopher Smith argues for long-term, stable funding system following cuts to aid-funded research projects

ViewSTFC announces partnership with South African research funder

Agreement aims to reinforce research programmes through joint educational training activities