Africa News

ViewPharma giants team up with Medical Research Council

Studies will focus on genetic diversity and treatments for TB and malaria

ViewUS funds fresh Africa collaborations

Research to focus on elephants, baobab trees and WhatsApp

ViewSouth Africa to ramp up Covid-19 sequencing

Concern over virus variants opens strained public purse

ViewWHO urges Africa to step up Covid-19 sequencing

Emergence of more infectious virus variants sparks urgency

ViewNew Next Einstein ambassadors announced at virtual gathering

Young scientists will drive public engagement with science on the continent

ViewResearch gaps identified for Covid-19 vaccine rollout

Priorities include countering vaccine hesitancy and identifying South African risk factors

View‘Blended’ learning in South Africa to stay

Student performance improved in 2020 as teaching and assessment moved online

ViewRay of hope for Mozambique’s mantas and whale sharks

Conservation experts say law protecting marine species is ‘huge step in the right direction'

ViewWellcome Trust experts reflect on 2020 and the promise of 2021

Funder’s scientists talk about Covid-19 lessons the world can draw on for the future

ViewGovernment advisers take prize for championing science

Anthony Fauci and Salim Abdool Karim awarded Maddox Prize for their pandemic work

View2020: A testing year

The past year was a trial for African scientists, but 2021 could be worse

ViewSKA’s dual impact on South African science

The mega-telescope project has generated investment, but at what cost to other subjects?

ViewAfrican academy identifies continental science priorities

Climate change, food security and gender promise ‘highest return’ on R&D spend

ViewFour in five Africans ‘would take Covid-19 vaccine’

But acceptance rates vary between countries

ViewSKA Observatory to be granted international organisation status

UK’s ratification final piece of puzzle for convention to establish Square Kilometre Array Observatory

ViewEditors back task team to address journal concerns in South Africa

Racial gatekeeping and ’too early, too often’ publishing along the problems

ViewAfrica ‘perfect’ location for drug development

Continent’s genetic diversity makes it ideal place to test drugs

ViewEurope ‘arrogant’ about inequality in science

UK journalist Angela Saini says research can progress without racists and sexists

ViewOpen science’s slow application leads to frustration

Adoption in South Africa slowed by lack of funding, advocate claims

ViewManamela sets out South Africa’s science priorities for 2021

Deputy minister vows to tackle gender and race imbalances

ViewResearch guide for South African privacy law due by March

Timeline will allow for public consultation before compliance deadline in July

ViewSouth Africa signs science parks agreement with China

Partnership to link Innovation Hub in Pretoria with incubator in Xi’an

ViewRussell Group pledges to ‘argue hard’ for aid-funded research

Nancy Rothwell’s promise comes as senior UKRI figure gives backing to threatened Global Challenges fund

ViewAfricans dominate minor World Academy prizes

But the continent misses out on large awards

ViewMalawi to establish masters in biodiversity informatics

Programme will promote ‘collaborative training and mentorship’

ViewAlliance launched to fight health misinformation in Africa

Partnership aims to create strategies to counter ‘infodemics’

ViewStalwart South African scientist-cum-MP dies

Belinda Bozzoli was shadow minister of science and served on portfolio committees

ViewSouth African science and maths literacy remains poor

Learners' performance rated among worst in the world—again

ViewSouth Africa kicks off virtual science forum

Social science in focus as pandemic pushes annual end-of-year gathering online

ViewCuts to aid-funded research ‘inevitable’, says UKRI official

UK funder, which administers much of Newton Fund and GCRF, expects less money for schemes