Africa News

ViewAfrica news roundup: 11-17 November

This week: a global knowledge partnership and the pre-launch of a climate change call

ViewJapan injects US$5m into parasitic disease drug research

Money should help develop treatment that breaks transmission cycles of elephantiasis and river blindness

ViewRooibos research gets much-needed funding boost

Grants will enable scientists to run clinical trials in the study of plant’s pharmacological properties

ViewOcean crime-fighting satellite array faces delays

Technical problems have marred South Africa’s trial constellation launched in January this year

ViewNestlé backs Africa Food Prize 

Company commits $100,000 contribution to African agriculture advancement award

ViewNasa and South Africa cement lunar exploration pact

South African communications antenna will help Earthlings return to the Moon

ViewBlack Stellenbosch students and staff ‘still feel unwelcome’

Racial transformation policies not reflected in practice, retired judge’s inquiry finds

ViewCreate vaccines for Africa from Africa, conference told

“Local capacity solves local problems” says Aspen head of strategic trade development

ViewAfrica’s research universities are rising

Continent’s top institutions have advanced despite the pandemic, data shows

ViewKenya-based insect centre swarmed with grants

Icipe CEO says investments are the fruit of multi-year drive to bring in new donors

ViewAfrican Academy of Science appoints new executive director

Former Unesco science policy head Peggy Oti-Boateng tasked with steering troubled academy

ViewAfrica news roundup: 4-10 November

Rice observatory for West Africa, ocean science award and more

ViewAnti-blackness in global health more than just visa denials

‘Something pathological’ about not seeing it, Nairobi gathering hears

ViewSouth Africa invests millions in mining R&D

Centres of excellence to develop skills and technology to modernise mining industry

ViewRoger Glass: The people we fund end up on the front lines

Fogarty centre director proud that the people his initiative trains are leading Africa’s Covid-19 response

ViewHuman Sciences Research Council gets CEO at last

Sarah Mosoetsa will take command of Africa’s largest social sciences research body next year

ViewNzimande vows to put innovation at centre of economy

Interministerial cluster to oversee national coordination of science budgets and resources

ViewUS-funded group suggests ‘single market’ for African research data

Data corridor would circumvent data-sharing challenges such as complex privacy laws

ViewAfrica news roundup: 21 October to 3 November

Space weather, EU-Africa university meeting and new council chair at UJ

ViewUK may extend cut to overseas aid spending

Rumoured two-year extension of aid budget cut could be bad news for R&D

ViewAfrica news roundup: 21-27 October

R1bn raised for missing middle, Nigerian biochemist praised for courage and more...

ViewNational Research Foundation to ramp up support for Black women

Underrepresented group will be focus of South African programme to create globally leading researchers

ViewiThemba Labs re-advertises controversial director post

National Research Foundation hopes second advert will attract candidates who missed out first time round

ViewWits leads ‘quantum leap’ for South African science

Government R54m grant will lay foundation for “quantum workforce”, says project leader

ViewHuman sciences council penitent after second damning audit

HSRC board vows to do “whatever necessary” to root out financial maladministration

ViewFunding unveiled for climate adaptation and contraceptives

Gates-funded projects will be managed by the Science for Africa Foundation

ViewSouth Africa hosts first Nobel symposia outside Scandinavia

Africans scientists have fought “tooth and nail” to make their voices heard, launch hears

ViewAfrican push for homegrown funding targets health

“We used to talk about it, but now it’s happening,” says Auda-Nepad’s Aggrey Ambali

ViewAfrica news roundup: 14-20 October

This week: astronomy awards open and the African CDC director is stopped at Frankfurt airport

ViewMPs call for ‘skills audits’ in South African universities

Committee says it was “misled” by witness about qualifications