Africa News

ViewKenya’s president renews US medical research partnership

William Ruto highlights need to address emerging public health threats during state visit

View‘Emergency’ R&D funds released as Mpox surges in Congo

Europe-funded clinical trials partnership offers grants worth €5 million, with a two-week deadline

View‘Solid ground’ for future of Africa-Europe science partnership

Outgoing EU head of international research cooperation outlines “exciting and challenging times”

ViewSouth Africa adds expert to global ocean research programme

Metabolism maps will boost ocean governance and stewardship, says CSIR researcher

ViewUK Biobank gives hard-up researchers free access to data

Donor-funded scheme aims to redress geographic imbalance in usage of huge biomedical resource

ViewFogarty International Centre welcomes first female director

Infectious disease and vaccine policy expert Kathleen Neuzil to start in May

ViewExternal climate science solutions ‘not always best for Africa’

Investment is needed to build continent’s own capacity to predict weather, scientists say

ViewTaylor & Francis unveils open-access deal for southern Africa

Humanities and social science publisher “repurposes” read-only fees to pay for open access

ViewEU launches joint innovation dashboard with African Union

RI Days: Dashboard will display innovation projects contributing to AU-EU joint strategy

ViewMali secures more than €100m to combat TB and Aids

Global Fund money will bolster West African nation’s health systems and fund treatment

ViewBig risks, rewards ‘should spur US global health R&D spend’

Neglected and emerging disease investments result in big economic returns for US economy, analysis finds

ViewUK gives £25m to African physics research

Two funding programmes will support research networks across Africa and the UK

ViewInternational Vaccine Institute to open office in Kenya

Office will support local vaccine manufacturing

ViewDrug discovery in Africa receives ‘major’ funding boost

Philanthropic grant creates network to help discover new treatments for prevalent diseases on continent

ViewFirst MeerKAT extension dish added to Karoo telescope

Fourteen dishes will boost sensitivity of South Africa’s SKA precursor by 50 per cent

ViewGoogle signs ‘landmark’ African digitalisation agreement

Partnership aims to strengthen tech startups, computer literacy and cybersecurity

ViewAfrica-Europe health pact boosted by €6m deal

Investment aims to spur genomic surveillance and strengthen public health laboratories in African Union

View‘Stalemate’ threatens global pandemic treaty as deadline nears

Former world leaders warn that negotiations have stalled amid competing global crises

ViewUK and South Africa unveil disease-tracking partnership

Collaboration sets out to broaden reach of genomic surveillance to detect epidemics

ViewUK earmarks R1bn for joint R&D projects with South Africa

Non-communicable diseases, climate change and research careers among priorities of science partnerships

ViewGates Foundation unveils record $8.6bn budget for 2024

Investment increase aims to offset global drop in development aid, foundation says

ViewQ&A: A novel way to boost innovation in southern Africa

Rebecca Hanlin describes how brainstorming event charted path for new innovation fund

ViewSouth Africa’s NRF to scrutinise wellbeing of youth in Global South

Twelve-country study will survey toll of unemployment, poverty, climate change and poor education

ViewKenyan-Scottish livestock R&D partnership renewed

Initiative aims to ensure sustainability in “fastest-growing” agricultural sector

ViewFunding for African epidemic research networks announced

Grants worth more than US$5 million each made available for consortia consisting of three-to-six organisations

ViewAfrica CDC unveils China-funded biosafety laboratory

Ethiopia-based facility to expand pathogen research and epidemiology in Africa

ViewAfrican partnership launches One Health Observatory

Hub is “one-stop-shop” for lessons combining human, animal and environmental health protection

ViewWorld misses 2022 tuberculosis research funding target

Research expenditure barely reached half the target set in 2018 before the Covid outbreak

ViewNIH announces Alzheimer’s research funding for Africa

$3m fund will support development and improvement of dementia research infrastructure

ViewNigeria and UK launch joint project to study mpox

Surveillance and transmission studies will aid global fight against the disease, partners say