Africa News

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

ViewAfrica news roundup: 30 November – 5 December

Grand Challenges Africa issues first Germany-backed call

ViewAfrica news roundup: 22-28 November

MeerKAT and SALT make first joint discovery

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

ViewTwo more Africans on global ‘top cited’ list

South Africa, Kenya, Egypt, and Nigeria house some of world’s most highly cited researchers

ViewAfrica news roundup: 8-14 November

One health in Kenya, and data science at Wits

ViewAfrican universities show strength in social science

Subject ranking features 19 Arican universities from seven countries

ViewAfrica news roundup: 1-7 November

Funders back Africa’s underwater heritage, black students’ experiences shared, Ghana innovation centre honours Kofi Anan,...

ViewAfrica urged to consider weakening consent rules in health crises

Simpler language and local terms would also help, say researchers

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

View‘Fees must fall’ protests hit Uganda

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

ViewAfrica news roundup: 25-31 October

WHO and African academy strike deal to promote health innovation

ViewAfrica news roundup: 19-25 October

SAMRC backs Plan S and SA unveils municipal innovation tool

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

ViewOpen science advocate says African governments hold back adoption

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

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

ViewAfrica news roundup: 27 September – 3 October

Stellenbosch re-appoints vice-chancellor, Erasmus+ grants to Africans double, Nigeria plans robotics agency

ViewAfrica news roundup: 20-26 September

Foundation backs African river research, global donors fund R&D to climate-proof farming, second Ebola vaccine...

ViewAfrica needs more vaccinology investments, study says

Scientists say efforts should target training, uptake, design and manufacturing capabilities to unblock vaccine pipeline