With African scientists leading the way in the latest Ebola response, Catherine Kyobutungi makes the case for long-term ...

As Gavi prepares the first payouts from its $1.2 billion manufacturing program, the challenge shifts from financing factories ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has presented a relatively rare situation in which the entire globe is grappling with the same crisis at the same time, albeit with widely varying approaches, resource levels, ...

Inside Nestlé's only African research hub, scientists are redesigning everyday staples to tackle hidden hunger, strengthen ...

The Department of Science, Technology and Innovation has officially launched the country's inaugural National Science Month, ...

A newly published paper in Nature describes the complex process of launching a nine-country collaboration in Africa to significantly expand scientists' understanding of human genetic diversity. This ...

If Science in Africa is to have a flagship, a glass and concrete symbol of what it is and what it is capable of achieving, the University of the Western Cape’s new Life Sciences building would have ...

Africa's health future hinges on its ability to finance and commercialize its own medical innovations, rather than rely on increasingly uncertain international funding, African science leaders have ...

The African Science Academy Development Initiative (ASADI), launched in 2004 by the U.S. National Academies and funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is a 10-year effort to strengthen the ...

A new University of Oxford study finds that almost half of the global population (3.79 billion) will be living with extreme heat by 2050 if the world reaches 2.0°C of global warming above ...

South Africa’s President joined dignitaries, scientists, a large media contingent and members of the local community in the small town of Carnarvon today to celebrate South Africa’s successful bid to ...

An continent-wide framework is necessary, argues an advisor to the New Partnership for Africa's Development To succeed in its aspirations of regional and global economic integration, Africa must ...