After being rejected to serve as a driver by Uber and Taxify for three years, Fezile Dhlamini took matters into his own hands and launched Green Scooter, a start-up that uses ... Read more »
"Drones and satellites are helping African journalists to expose lies and shed light on underreported issues in regions that are largely inaccessible. But restrictive regulations ... Read more »
The Pro Series Gaming tournament held in Nairobi forms part of Liquid Telecom's five-year initiative to boost Africa's gaming industry. Read more »
The automatic identification system payload of South Africa's ZACUBE-2 satellite will allow it to proactively detect forest fires and track the position, speed and registration of ... Read more »
A new and inventive school will launch in Windhoek in June 2018 where children between the ages of 6 and 13 will learn basic to advanced robotics programming. Read more »
Eco-farming techniques could deliver nutritious, environmentally friendly food for a growing world, increase farmers' earnings and make farms more resilient to climate change, ... Read more »
The Next Einstein Forum is setting up a U.S.$1 million fund to encourage scientific breakthroughs in Africa. This comes after Cameroonian medical doctor Conrad Tankou won the ... Read more »
How can development practitioners that are coming up with these innovations scale up the adoption and use of these technologies, asks Aspen New Voices Fellow Esther Ngumbi. Read more »
U.S. $30 million has been set aside by the Board of the African Development Bank Group to support the establishment of the Rwanda Innovation Fund, a project with the aim of ... Read more »
Laser imaging technology has allowed archaeologists to discover the stone settlement of Kweneng, which existed on the outskirts of Johannesburg over two centuries ago. Read more »
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