East Africans bagged eight out of the 16 slots in this year's shortlist for the prestigious Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation.
The Prize is run by the UK's Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng), with objective of recognising African innovators. Among the shortlisted are the East African inventions -- a low-cost digital microscope to speed up cervical cancer diagnosis, a chemical process that turns crop waste into fertilisers and two innovations using the invasive water hyacinth plants to manufacture animal feed and cooking fuel.
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