Africa News

ViewAfrican Academy of Sciences elects 31 fellows

Women make up less than one-third of intake

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

ViewPostgraduate scheme to train African thought leaders

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

ViewKenya: A regional science hub with global challenges

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

ViewSouth Africa’s radio astronomy hub recruits for top post

Successor sought for Rob Adam who has led SARAO since 2016

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

ViewAfrican science academies call for Ukraine ceasefire

Conflict “threatens network of collaboration” for continent and world

ViewWorld needs $4bn per year for R&D to beat tuberculosis

Research should target new diagnostics, medicines and vaccines, as Covid and wars worsen TB burden

ViewKenya plans regional health research and training hub

Multi-university partnership will feature labs and a 1,000-bed hospital

ViewRich countries dominate poverty disease research

But South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria punch above their weight in Africa, study finds

ViewLancet calls for overhaul of Nigerian health policy

Report points to political failures in delivering promised health gains

ViewSouth Africa to host African sustainability node

Hub will invest “significantly” to expend continent’s science networks

ViewTraining offered for open peer reviewers in Africa

Train-the-trainer workshop will produce more reviewers in their own communities

ViewGlobal inequalities in climate research support slammed

Underfunding in Africa at odds with continent’s vulnerability, IPCC says

ViewShort research management courses needed in Africa

Professional training exists on the continent but is unaffordable for many

ViewWellcome seeks team to study African research culture

Project will map researchers’ opinions and perceptions, and suggest ways to improve the culture

ViewAfrica has highest proportion of female STEM graduates

But women remain outnumbered at student and academic staff levels, report finds

ViewAfrican research ‘gradually’ recovering from Covid shock

But more than two-thirds of researchers say pandemic stopped their work

ViewGlobal academies call for health data sharing framework

Standardised data needs to be “accessible to all”

ViewRwanda mourns death of public health champion

Paul Farmer founded country’s global health equity university and helped its post-war rebuild

ViewDecolonise climate-heritage research, paper urges

Authors claim there is ‘unequal balance’ in heritage earmarked for R&D

ViewSKA’s expansion will require African training and funds

“We can’t do it by importing people” says observatory head Phil Diamond

ViewAfrican Union and atomic agency extend pact

Collaboration in health and other areas will continue at least until 2026

ViewCovid variant found in Nigeria could have been ‘of concern’

Reconstructed spread of ‘Eta’ shows challenge of tracking virus globally

View‘Walk the talk’ on R&D, African university heads urge politicians

Research alliance calls for funding commitments at upcoming summit with Europe

View‘I’m a team player’, declares AU’s new science commissioner

Algeria’s Mohamed Belhocine woos journalists in first media briefing

ViewPandemic harmed West African research

More than half of academics quizzed for study say they lost funding due to Covid

ViewAfrica ‘critically’ underrepresented in cancer trials

Dearth of trials could lead to ineffective cancer treatments in African populations