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| Nov 19, 2025 | Madagascar: AI and Citizens Detect Invasive Mosquito in Madagascar | Nairobi — Researchers say they have used Artificial Intelligence and citizen-submitted photos to identify what they believe was the first Anopheles stephensi detected in Madagascar, amid a rising threat from the malaria-transmitting mosquit... |
| Jan 30, 2025 | Uganda: AI Monitors Help Uganda Tackle Air Pollution Crisis | Kampala — Air quality monitors powered by artificial intelligence (AI) are being deployed in Uganda's capital city in efforts to drive down pollution-related illnesses, especially among vulnerable populations.
Kampala currently ranks among ... |
| Apr 29, 2024 | Africa: Bridging the Gap Between Science and Policymaking | This article was produced with the support of the International Network for Governmental Science Advice (INGSA).
Making sure scientific advice is objective is one of the key concerns of the International Network for Governmental Science Adv... |
| Feb 2, 2024 | From Gaza to Sudan, conflict is driving a rise in hunger worldwide | Over the long term, humanity has made great progress in eradicating hunger. Famines on the scale of the 20th century’s catastrophes — the Nazi starvation policies, social transformations in China and Soviet Russia that came at the cost of t... |
| Jan 19, 2024 | Funding gap to tackle world’s hunger crises widens | [NAIROBI] The shortfall of international funding for countries with crisis levels of hunger has widened by almost a quarter in the last year, according to analysis by the non-profit organisation Action Against Hunger.
Nearly one in every fo... |
| Nov 16, 2023 | Africa: AI a 'Potent Remedy' for Africa's Health Challenges | Lagos — Artificial Intelligence (AI) could emerge as a potent remedy for long-standing challenges in Africa's health care sector if innovators, researchers and policymakers collaborated and invested in the technology, an online discussion h... |
| May 30, 2023 | Africa: AI Crop Predictor Aids Africa's Crisis Planning | Accra — An Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool is using satellite remote sensing and machine learning to predict agricultural yields of key crops across Africa, to help mitigate the harms of climate change and other crises, its developers say... |
| Apr 11, 2023 | Can gene editing kill deadly diseases? | Two clinics sit adjacent to one another in a new hospital in a medium-sized city in the developed world.
In one, a family waits for a long-scheduled appointment. Their daughter suffers from a rare inherited disease. One of her genes encodes... |
| Feb 21, 2023 | Africa: Agriculture Innovators Share Prize to Aid Food Security | Three tech innovators are to share a US$1.5 million prize to scale up their innovations and enable smallholder farmers to boost productivity, resilience and incomes amid a historic food crisis, the award organisers say.
Farmers in Africa ar... |
| Oct 29, 2022 | SEI’s Zoha Shawoo in SciDevNet: Loss and damage funding must center, empower vulnerable communities | The issue of loss and damage gained momentum during COP26 last year in Scotland and is on the provisional agenda for this year’s summit, but it remains unclear what may come of any talk on the subject.
The countries disproportionately affec... |
| Oct 12, 2022 | Africa: 'Brain Drain' Hits Africa's Tech Developers | Africa must nurture and incentivise tech developers to halt their migration, writes Oladeinde Olawoyin.
When Samuel Onidare returned to Nigeria from the United Kingdom a year ago, he had difficulty convincing his colleagues that he made the... |
| Jun 17, 2022 | Why China’s adoption of genetically modified maize and soy affects South Africa | Why China’s adoption of genetically modified maize and soy affect South Africa: Image: Adobe stock
Something important for global agriculture happened this past week but received minimal media coverage. The Chinese National Crop Variety App... |
| Jun 2, 2022 | Africa: AI Drives Quest for New Antivirals to Fight Outbreaks | Nairobi — Research into drugs to treat mosquito-borne flaviviruses such as Zika and dengue as well as COVID-19 will benefit from a major funding boost, says a group of international scientists using artificial intelligence to discover new o... |
| May 19, 2022 | Power Trials Commence at Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam Despite Stalled Negotiations and Regional Tensions | On Feb. 20, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed visited the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) to celebrate initial power generation trials. Ethiopians rejoiced as their decades-old dream neared completion. For years, the previous gover... |
| Apr 19, 2022 | Developing Countries Are Being Left Behind In The AI Race – And That’s A Problem For All Of Us | AI race: sdecoret/Shutterstock |
| Feb 11, 2022 | Africa: Telehealth Could 'Break Barriers' to Antenatal Care | Accra — Telemedicine should be used to increase access to routine care delivered to expectant mothers from the time they conceive to the onset of labour in resource-limited settings, a Ghana-based study suggests.
The World Health Organizati... |
| Feb 11, 2022 | Is it possible to reduce or eradicate fraud in Africa? | Share this article:
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The rate at which Africans use the Internet for cybercrime is alarming and rapidly increasing. Cybercrime affects all countries, but Africa is particularly vulnerable due to inadequate network and security.
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| Feb 10, 2022 | Africa's Digital Startups 'Miss Out On Incentives' | Kampala — Less than ten per cent of government incentives in Africa facilitate investment into startups focusing on so-called fourth industrial revolution technologies such as robotics and artificial intelligence, a report says.
The report ... |
| Jan 17, 2022 | Soso Care – The Nigerian company providing health insurance in exchange for recyclables. | Plastic waste littered on roads and in drainages is not uncommon in Nigeria. The recycling and waste management system in the country is inefficient. Plastic waste makes up 2.5 million tonnes of the total 32 million tonnes of waste generate... |
| Jul 15, 2021 | How technology is helping African youths gain skills for employment and entrepreneurship | Share this article:
Tessi Obasa is a young marine/offshore engineer in Nigeria who does video editing and special effects for fun. His first experience of online learning came in 2016 with a Udemy course on Android programming using Android... |
| Dec 9, 2020 | AppsAfrica Awards 2020 – Shortlist Announced | Share this:
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| Apr 1, 2020 | The Need To Avoid COVID-19 Stigma: Lessons From TB Response | As the head of an asylum center, Christina Birkemose was nervous that she, or the people she worked with, would be stigmatized if she revealed that she had tuberculosis. Birkemose, now a city council member in Faxe, Denmark, was diagnosed w... |
| Sep 20, 2018 | HydroPower Dominates Africa’s Renewables But Over 80% Of Its Potential Remains Untapped | High Aswan Dam, Egypt. Photo: Jorge Láscar via Flickr
Gada, a rural community in Nassarawa, North Central Nigeria, was without power for about 12 years. This was despite the presence of the River Mada in the area. It was a case of wasted po... |
| Jul 31, 2017 | An alternative option for African students: Are online degrees valuable? | Share this article:
One of the interesting things that has happened with the internet is the blooming of online courses.
Though distance education has existed for a long time, it was not as easy earlier because everything had to be done by ... |
| Dec 2, 2015 | After Zuckerberg’s big bet, big names in science see hope and reason for caution | When Mark Zuckerberg announced in a letter to his newborn daughter that he and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan, would use 99 percent of their Facebook wealth for philanthropy, he wrote of funding medical research that could lead to “a world wi... |
| Aug 7, 2015 | Digging for data on Africa’s climate future | Share this:
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| May 11, 2015 | Africa and space: the continent starts to look skyward | |
| Apr 29, 2014 | Kenya: Plantwise app gives farmers help for crop troubles | Share this:
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