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ViewUgandan university to train peace brokers

Makerere-based centre will train 40 fellows a year starting in 2021

ViewThe African science decade that wasn’t

Ten years of hard-won progress has birthed a generation that dares to speak out

ViewSouth Africa: 2019 in review

Science gets a governance overhaul, but no funding windfall

ViewAfrica: 2019 in review

Continental science remains tied to the vagaries of international politics

ViewAfrica news roundup: 6-12 December

Germany backs health research in East Africa

ViewScience amendment bill to finally pass in 2020

Weary science committee ends year by sending contentious bill to Assembly

ViewFree trade area absent from African science summit

Stakeholders call it a missed opportunity to link science with the economy

ViewAaaand they’re off!

Science and innovation jostled for position at South Africa’s end-of-year forum in Pretoria

ViewAfrican Space Agency dead in the water—Munsami

Continent lacks leadership to implement ambitious plans, South African space chief warns

ViewMulti-country partnerships boost research impact

But elevated citations of papers with dozens of authors could skew impact analysis

ViewWhat is the 4IR anyway?

Fourth industrial revolution 'overcooked and overhyped'—and more from the 2019 Science Forum

ViewForesight exercise identifies nine priority areas for SA science

Critics say plan lacks focus and ‘out of the box’ long-term thinking

ViewTUT appears before Parliament, finally

Science and technology portfolio committee members remain unsatisfied

ViewEdinburgh to welcome five health researchers from Africa

Happy coincidence that ‘Out of Africa’ winners are spread across the continent

ViewWorld Bank approves more ACE impact centres

Second batch brings total impact funding beneficiaries to 70

ViewSA launches national geospatial company

Public-private partnership designed to ‘demystify space for business’

ViewAfrica news roundup: 30 November – 5 December

Grand Challenges Africa issues first Germany-backed call

ViewResist US pressure over copyright bill, Ramaphosa urged

Creative US industries are lobbying for SA sanctions should ‘fair use’ bill be passed

ViewNzimande: ‘We must bridge the gap between North and South’

South African science minister takes a swing at lopsided global science spending

ViewAfrica news roundup: 22-28 November

MeerKAT and SALT make first joint discovery

ViewLarge classes and language barriers fuel SA plagiarism, trio claims

KwaZulu-Natal academics ‘feel relegated to security officers and investigators’

ViewTwo European research collaborations for SA

Ocean science and agriculture benefits from deals with Norway and France

ViewSA hosting of research integrity conference welcomed

Cape Town-based 2021 meeting will help Africa fight unethical practices, say NRF officials

ViewSouth Africa is on track building nanotechnology capacity

But racial and gender transformation remains a concern in the sector

ViewSA to partner Hungary on cars, water and lasers

‘Commonalities’ between economies will drive research partnerships

ViewUniversity of Ghana acts against ‘sex for grades’ staff

Fact-finding committee finds prima facie evidence against disgraced academics

ViewWest Africa dominates ‘women in science’ awards

Majority of L’Oreal-Unesco winners’ work in health or biological sciences

ViewAfrica news roundup: 15-21 November

AU and WHO to collaborate, new UCT dean, and more

ViewTwo SA universities in top 100 health ranking

Thirty-four African universities appear in Times Higher Education subject ranking for health

ViewUS foundation backs SANBI data competition

Teams in Malawi, Rwanda, and Ghana will compete for prizes but more funding is available