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Ethiopia: Young Inventor Helps Ethiopia's COVID-19 Crisis
DW, 5 May 2020
Inventors in Ethiopia have been developing devices and gadgets to combat COVID-19. One of them, Ezedine Kamil, has told DW how a lack of funding prevents his designs from fully… Read more »
Innovation to Define Post-COVID-19 Era in Africa and Beyond
The ability to innovate and quickly adapt will be major issues framing the world's developmental trajectory after the Covid-19 outbreak, writes Lovemore Chikova for The Herald. This comes as African innovations created to negate the impact of the pandemic include a solar-powered handwashing machine from Ghana and an electric soap dispenser with a built-in sensor from Ethiopia.
The work of scientists across Africa to conduct clinical trial reviews and combat Covid-19 gets little attention.
InFocus
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Innovation, which has long characterized Africa, has become a central feature of the response to the SARS-CoV-2 (new coronavirus) crisis across the continent. Fashion designers in ... Read more »
