Africa News

ViewYoung Ugandan research star dies

Covid-19 complications claims biosystems engineer Noble Banadda's life

ViewKenyatta promises $1m a year for gender violence research

Kenyan president says funding will boost evidence-based programming

ViewWorld can afford 300m jabs for Africa by August, say experts

Scale of current production “makes it feasible”

ViewGermany funds studies to probe its colonial history

African applicants encouraged for programme that will support PhDs

ViewGoma volcanologists rally behind whistleblowers

Scientists back allegations of unequal partnerships at DRC observatory

ViewVaccine hesitancy growing in Africa

Ignorance and false information contribute to trend, says report

ViewAfrican academy launches fund for early-career researchers

US$30 million from European Union up for grabs in any scientific field

ViewAfrica-wide commercialisation centre launched in SA

Stellenbosch to host institution charged with upscaling innovations

ViewRichard Leakey named Turkana palaeontology chair

Fossil hunter is first holder of the post amid push to boost homegrown research

ViewLess than half of African PhDs return from South Africa

Findings contradict earlier study that cleared South Africa of pilfering talent

ViewUK aid cuts ‘could galvanise African investment in R&D’

Event participants urge longer-term funding for equitable partnerships and greater investment in African vaccine research

ViewRelax age requirements for funding, says Zambia’s first astrophysics PhD

Africans often older at graduation ‘through no fault of their own’

ViewSeven African companies among 100 technology ‘pioneers’

E-health, logistics and mobile banking feature in World Economic Forum startup list

ViewNamibia launches space science and astronomy policy

Research chairs and centres on the cards in national roadmap

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

World Bank loan will prioritise women and train lecturers and professors

ViewWorld did not learn its lesson from HIV, say experts

“Tragic situation” is recurring with Covid-19 despite treatments and vaccines

ViewAfrica’s innovation gap: A view from Kenya

The continent’s research and innovation ecosystems need effective private sector engagement, argues Salome M. Guchu

ViewMalawi launches first science academy

Entomologist Elizabeth Bandason named inaugural secretary-general

ViewAfrica’s lack of Covid-19 vaccines ‘deplorable’ says HIV expert

The continent is “back of the queue” despite hosting vaccine trials

ViewRwandan ex-minister to lead UK university office in Kigali

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

ViewEurope promises €1bn for vaccine manufacturing in Africa

Funds will establish manufacturing hubs in ‘high potential’ countries

ViewUnesco to help Africa with science funding info portal

Effort should have been underway years ago, says interim Science, Technology and Innovation observatory head

ViewGhana and Nigeria drop out of Africa’s Nature Index Top 10

Index gauges performance in journals deemed by senior researchers as most prestigious in their field

View‘Indignant’ health ministers oppose Covid-19 vaccine passports

Summit complains that Africa faces “severe” delays in accessing vaccines

ViewMajor rift at AAS as auditors probe finances

African Academy of Sciences governance row raises concerns over future of research funding

ViewAfrica’s Covid burden ‘underdiagnosed and underreported’

Virus hampering access to healthcare and causing income loss and hunger, report says

ViewAfrica’s young researchers have been ‘abandoned’, webinar hears

Policymakers and inept institutional leaders criticised

ViewAfrican research funding needs to balance excellence with equity

Funding biases entrench gap between those who have and have not, says Alphonsus Neba

ViewSoft skills could help Kenyans win more funding

Help needed to end unequal relationship with Global North

ViewMukwege and Abdool Karim to sit on global health science council

Nine-member group will be the ‘voice of scientific leadership’