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ViewAnimal vaccine expert awarded Royal Society Africa prize

George Warimwe wins £15,000 for work on zoonoses and capacity building

ViewGender roles create barriers for African women in science

Researchers report feeling “time poor” and living “two lives”

ViewWHO plans to boost evidence-use in health policymaking

Ministers and health officials will consider framework at summit next week

ViewGlobal south under-represented in economic development research

“Practices and paradigms” exclude southern researchers, paper claims

ViewAfrica has leading role to play in preventing pandemics

One Health platforms “crucial” to stop diseases jumping from animals to humans

ViewMakerere readvertises top academic posts

Ugandan crown jewel re-offers raft of vacancies published earlier this year

ViewLack of money, land and tech deter young African farmers

Youth taking up agriculture “essential” to continent’s Covid-19 recovery, report claims

ViewBenin and Côte d’Ivoire win plant medicine grants

West African plants will be studied for Covid-19 treatment and antibiotic resistance

ViewConsortium to study ‘faculty issues’ in East African universities

Two-year grant will study challenges faced by academics

ViewReview reveals research gaps on ageing in Africa

HIV and South Africa overrepresented in studies of continent’s elderly

ViewShared African research area remains a distant prospect

Continental “map” identifies funding and governance gaps as key barriers

ViewHIV ‘significant’ in severe Covid-19 and mortality

Africa more affected than Europe and Americas

ViewSenior women and postdocs lag at top African universities

Fellowships and female professors should be a priority, says African Research Universities Alliance

ViewNamibian research council still scouting for permanent CEO

Board foresees no day-to-day disruptions to operations

ViewSenegal to pioneer locally made Covid-19 vaccines

Target is 25 million doses per month by end of 2022

ViewWest Africans dominate engineering innovation prize

Biowaste processor for smallholder farmers takes main award

ViewHead of insect institute backs science decolonisation

Movement’s goals are “necessary, overdue and attainable”, says Segenet Kelemu

ViewYoung Ugandan research star dies

Covid-19 complications claims biosystems engineer Noble Banadda's life

ViewKenyatta promises $1m a year for gender violence research

Kenyan president says funding will boost evidence-based programming

ViewWorld can afford 300m jabs for Africa by August, say experts

Scale of current production “makes it feasible”

ViewGermany funds studies to probe its colonial history

African applicants encouraged for programme that will support PhDs

ViewGoma volcanologists rally behind whistleblowers

Scientists back allegations of unequal partnerships at DRC observatory

ViewVaccine hesitancy growing in Africa

Ignorance and false information contribute to trend, says report

ViewAfrican academy launches fund for early-career researchers

US$30 million from European Union up for grabs in any scientific field

ViewAfrica-wide commercialisation centre launched in SA

Stellenbosch to host institution charged with upscaling innovations

ViewRichard Leakey named Turkana palaeontology chair

Fossil hunter is first holder of the post amid push to boost homegrown research

ViewLess than half of African PhDs return from South Africa

Findings contradict earlier study that cleared South Africa of pilfering talent

ViewUK aid cuts ‘could galvanise African investment in R&D’

Event participants urge longer-term funding for equitable partnerships and greater investment in African vaccine research

ViewRelax age requirements for funding, says Zambia’s first astrophysics PhD

Africans often older at graduation ‘through no fault of their own’

ViewSeven African companies among 100 technology ‘pioneers’

E-health, logistics and mobile banking feature in World Economic Forum startup list