Publication will highlight pioneering work of scientists searching for cures to diseases like HIV and malaria and solutions to climate change.

African universities have been urged to foster gender equality, parity and mentoring of girls and early career women scientists in STEM, in order to facilitate economic transformation and other developmental challenges affecting the East African region.

Venture will launch next year and seeks to strengthen continent’s science by helping academics share work more quickly.

The African Academy of Sciences, in partnership with F1000, is launching a publication platform, AAS Open Research.

New law would allow commercial planting of transgenic varieties in Uganda.

Director of education and society at the British Council says Western universities must prove they do not have ‘imperialist’ designs on the continent

There are plenty of reasons to be upbeat about the prospects for science and research across Africa. The next challenge is to bring more of that evidence and expertise into decision making.

A new forum hopes to bring Africa’s scientific researchers together

There are just 79 scientists per million Africans, compared to 4,500 per million people in the United States.