Africa News

ViewVC salaries irk MPs

Salaries must be regulated, says chair of parliamentary committee

ViewFees Must Fall put damper on postgrad funding, says Nzimande

Influx of undergraduates will add more pressure, science minister warns

ViewAfrica urged to consider weakening consent rules in health crises

Simpler language and local terms would also help, say researchers

ViewMost SA universities bank on subsidies

High variance between universities found in government figures

ViewEast African science journal finally launched

Journal will showcase East African research

ViewNon-SA universities shine in subject rankings

Nigeria and North Africa do well in engineering and computer science

ViewNIH announces big investments in African health

Two new programmes will develop gene-based medicine and data science

View‘Fees must fall’ protests hit Uganda

Students clash with police over fee hike that Makerere claims is first in 13 years

ViewDecolonise Plan S, South African academics hear

Scientists warned against ‘apartheidisation’ of research and spiralling costs

ViewAfrica news roundup: 25-31 October

WHO and African academy strike deal to promote health innovation

ViewSouth Africa’s R&D intensity crawls upwards

Government and foreign funding slows, while business funding shows small recovery

ViewAfrica news roundup: 19-25 October

SAMRC backs Plan S and SA unveils municipal innovation tool

ViewAfrican researchers confirm inequities in global health research

Continent is under-represented in authorship and rich-country collaborations worsen inequality

ViewAfricans dominate Fogarty LMIC young researcher grants

South Africa dominates grant round while Nigeria and Tanzania are runners-up

View‘You are patronised, it doesn’t matter if you have a PhD’

Women are still marginalised in African research, Stellenbosch meeting hears

ViewAll subjects need decolonising—including science, meeting hears

Ugandan law professor calls decolonisation process ‘huge and daunting’ but necessary

ViewFresh radio astronomy projects to bolster pan-African readiness

South Africa hopes small dishes and project co-location will improve sustainability of continental efforts

ViewAfrica news roundup: 11-17 October

Continental body seeks humanitarian innovations and Wits tops Africa in humanities

ViewDNA samples being returned to Africa after consent row

Stellenbosch in touch with communities involved in Sanger DNA study

ViewSouth Africa’s Royal Society elects first woman president

Stephanie Burton says body should be ‘voice for ethics and integrity’ in research

ViewOpen science advocate says African governments hold back adoption

Incentives lacking as policymakers ‘not clued up on how the internet works’

ViewUS foundation backs pollinator research in Africa

Projects will address lack of accessible biodiversity data to inform policy decisions

ViewSA parliamentary science committee backs SKA Observatory

Important that country is one of the first to ratify establishing treaty, says chairman

ViewSouth Africa could be postdoc heaven, report says

But difficulty attracting foreign researchers holds the country back

ViewEurope ‘puts own interests before global health’

Paper claims researchers in low-income countries should not get hopes up about Horizon Europe

ViewGrowth of female academicians in SA slows slightly

Women make up 35 per cent of intake, still improving academy’s overall gender balance

ViewWest African consortium gets €18m for malaria research

Studies will test three malaria vaccines that use ‘novel strategy’ to beat disease

ViewEthiopia adopts national open access policy for universities

Policy mandates that all publicly funded research be made freely accessible

ViewTopic choice ‘contributes to racial bias’ in NIH grants

Black applicants more likely to propose work in ‘underappreciated’ research topics

ViewAfrica news roundup: 4-10 October

DRC research station named after former Nigerian president and food security funding for Africa