Africa: Agriculture Innovators Share Prize to Aid Food Security

Three tech innovators are to share a US$1.5 million prize to scale up their innovations and enable smallholder farmers to boost productivity, resilience and incomes amid a historic… Read more »

Africa: 'Brain Drain' Hits Africa's Tech Developers

Africa must nurture and incentivise tech developers to halt their migration, writes Oladeinde Olawoyin. Read more »

Africa: AI Drives Quest for New Antivirals to Fight Outbreaks

Research into drugs to treat mosquito-borne flaviviruses such as Zika and dengue as well as COVID-19 will benefit from a major funding boost, says a group of international… Read more »

Africa: Africa's Digital Startups 'Miss Out On Incentives'

Less than ten per cent of government incentives in Africa facilitate investment into startups focusing on so-called fourth industrial revolution technologies such as robotics and… Read more »

Africa: Telehealth Could 'Break Barriers' to Antenatal Care

Telemedicine should be used to increase access to routine care delivered to expectant mothers from the time they conceive to the onset of labour in resource-limited settings, a… Read more »

Africa: Companies Struggling With Consumer Data Protection

Many companies operating in Uganda and other African countries are not adequately keeping data safe, putting consumers at risk of identity theft and social harm, a report says. Read more »

Africa: Rights Group Launches Tool to Stem Cybercrime in Africa

Victims of cyberbullying and related crimes can now get redress thanks to a new online platform that seeks to empower internet users across Africa to report digital rights… Read more »

Africa: Weather Forecasts a 'Life-Saving Tool Against Meningitis'

Scientists are using weather-based surveillance to predict impending meningitis outbreaks in Sub-Saharan Africa, making weather forecasts a possible tool to help health services… Read more »

Africa: Gender Bias Stymies Women's Careers in Stem - UN

While women play a critical role in science and technology, women career scientists still face gender bias, accounting for only 28 per cent of engineering graduates and 40 per cent… Read more »

Africa: Mobile App Halves Vaccinating Time to Curb Rabies

A mobile phone app is helping veterinarians to halve the time it takes to complete dog vaccination programmes in Malawi and could help curb rabies threat in African cities, a study… Read more »

Africa: Africa's Tech Hubs Giving Universities Stiff Challenge

African technology hubs are challenging the dominance of traditional universities as sources of knowledge production, and are becoming better suited to a fast-paced knowledge… Read more »

Africa: Create Open Data Culture to Feed Hungry World - Experts

The world's ability to feed its growing - and increasingly hungry - population will depend on a culture of openness in research and data sharing, a debate on the future of… Read more »

Africa: Boost Smallholder Phone Access for Better Crop Yields

Small-scale farmers across the globe have low access to mobile networks and internet, the kind of data-driven farming that could boost incomes, a study has found. Read more »

Africa: Drones Safely Check Volcano Emissions

Specially outfitted drones are helping scientists get close to active volcanoes in a quest to measure and better understand their carbon dioxide emissions. Read more »

Africa: Women 'Use Advice Apps for Sex Tips' Rather Than Health

Rather than using apps to seek health information, 20 per cent of African women use them to please their partners, writes Laura Owings. Read more »

Africa: Region 'Must Embrace Geospatial Information'

African governments could become more sensitive to what their people really need by harnessing the wealth of available geospatial information, a meeting of scientists and… Read more »