A technique pioneered by African agricultural scientists has helped boost crop yields in exhausted and ancient soils.
Rwanda has implemented a long-delayed ban on the import and use of chlorofluorocarbon gases that damage the ozone layer.
Five scientists will shadow five legislators in a new pairing scheme being tried out by the Uganda National Academy of Science.
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"Parents have just handed the problem on to the next generation. We won’t see most of the damage — our children and grandchildren will."
Mthatha will host the Eastern Cape’s first regional science festival from August 26 to 28.
African farmers are already adapting to climate change, according to case studies in Bénin, Kenya and Malawi.
A Nigerian initiative to produce large quantities of a new drug against sickle-cell anaemia is mired in accusations of fraud and corruption.
Not everyone has an auntie like Sibongile Moyo, who sold a cow so that her niece and adoptive daughter Silethelwe Nxumalo could enter university for a basic degree in metallurgy. But “Lethu” Nxumalo — who recently made her aunt proud by graduating with an award-winning University of Cape Town (UCT) doctorate in mechanical engineering — says there are other (non-mooing) options.
Despite the massive growth in broadband connectivity, the number of South Africans with access to the internet will grow by little more than 3% in 2007. A report shows that 3,85-million people in South Africa — a mere 8% of the population — will have access to the internet by the end of 2007.