Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey makes his first visit to Nigeria as part of a tour of four African countries - Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria, and South Africa - during which he will meet with ... Read more »

The inaugural Electric Vehicle Road Trip Africa has proven it was possible to drive fully electric vehicles the length of the country. Ben Pullen, Chief Executive Officer of ... Read more »

In a project run by the Netherlands-based Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation, Ghanaian rice farmers are being taught how to use drones to spray crops and map ... Read more »

Rwanda, the first African country to produce smartphones through the Mara Group, is looking at new markets in which to sell its innovation, and are in talks with regional countries ... Read more »

The Rwanda Green Fund has signed an agreement with the Global Alliance for Smart Cities and Smart Villages in Africa to develop Rwandan villages into "smart green villages" in a ... Read more »

Paxful has launched a mobile wallet app, the first of its kind in the peer-to-peer bitcoin trading space, to ease transactions of the cryptocurrency in Kenya. Interest in bitcoin ... Read more »

Leila Siljeur, a second-year chemical engineering student who won U.S.$3,414 for her invention of flavoured edible straws, has said she aims to expand what is currently a niche ... Read more »

High school student Farida Cajee from Schweizer-Reneke in the North West has invented a "mind-controlled 3D-printed prosthetic hand" that aims to be a cheaper prosthetic ... Read more »

Five students from the University of Ibadan beat 49 other teams from 20 African tertiary institutions to win U.S.$2.7 million at the Professor Ayodele Awojobi Design Competition ... Read more »

Professor Cristina Trois, the University of KwaZulu-Natal's first woman professor, first dean of engineering and South African Research Chair in Waste and Climate Change, has been ... Read more »