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Sida urged to “reconsider” ending decades-long support scheme for Uganda’s flagship university

With 60 per cent of samples sequenced, project hopes to hit target later this year

This week: Four universities dominate Assaf membership, Karolinska and Makerere launch centre and more

Equality-promoting funding policies “still in their infancy”, review finds
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This week: INORMS registration, drug discovery partnership, US accolades and more

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

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

Women make up less than one-third of intake

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

True infections could be almost 100 times more than reported

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

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

Successor sought for Rob Adam who has led SARAO since 2016

Continent urged to diversify supply chains and invest in local production

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

Conflict “threatens network of collaboration” for continent and world

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

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

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

Report points to political failures in delivering promised health gains

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

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

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

Professional training exists on the continent but is unaffordable for many

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

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

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

Standardised data needs to be “accessible to all”

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

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

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

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

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

Research alliance calls for funding commitments at upcoming summit with Europe

Algeria’s Mohamed Belhocine woos journalists in first media briefing

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

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