The climate fiction movie The Day After Tomorrow, released in 2004, popularized the devastating effects of sudden climate ...

Africa’s health future hinges on its ability to finance and commercialise its own medical innovations, rather than rely on ...

It is within the possibility of science and technology to make even the Sahara bloom into a vast field with verdant vegetation.” These words, which still hold true today, were spoken by Kwame Nkrumah, ...

The personal journeys, professional triumphs, and unique challenges faced by scientists, researchers, and innovators across Africa bring insightful stories of resilience, groundbreaking discoveries, ...

Second, Mugabe noted that regional collaborations are also getting set up to organize and coordinate science efforts in all parts of the continent. And third, he reminded me, in the past couple of ...

The African Science Academy Development Initiative (ASADI), launched in 2004 by the U.S. National Academies and funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is a 10-year effort to strengthen the ...

Observed annually on 11 February, the International Day of Women and Girls in Science is a chance to pause and look at what is already making a difference and how much remains to be done in closing ...

A newly published paper in Nature describes the complex process of launching a nine-country collaboration in Africa to significantly expand scientists' understanding of human genetic diversity. This ...

Destiny Amenyedzi is using science and machine learning to solve a global problem. The native Ghanaian and Ph.D. student at the University of Rwanda is using AudioMoths (highly sensitive microphones) ...

In remarks at the beginning of a five-day virtual COVID-19 Africa Innovation and Investment Forum 2020, Ms. Songwe said Africa needs innovations to drive homegrown solutions out of the COVID-19 ...