South Africa: How Beetles Trick Bees Into Feeding Them Food Rich in Nutrients
Honey bees are useful not only to humans but to other “free riders” attracted to their stored resources. The small
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AfroCentric Group Launches New Digital Wellness Platform
The AfroCentric Group, a JSE-listed company, has launched AMP, a new digital wellness platform designed to integrate into medical schemes’
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Bboxx & Orange Connect 150,000 People in DRC to Clean Energy
Bboxx, a Pan-African super platform providing access to essential products and services, and Orange Telecom have partnered to launch a
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South Africa: Following a Fungus From Genes to Tree Disease a Journey in Science
Anyone who reads even a little about science and technology will be familiar by now with the idea of genome
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Unlocking The Opportunities For Electric Vehicle Manufacturing In South Africa
Electric vehicles are the future of transportation, with many countries already putting a time limit on the future of fossil
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Southern Africa: SADC to Increase Renewable Energy Generation to Reduce Carbon Emissions
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) is developing Renewable Energy Generation the Regional Gas Masterplan to enable the utilisation of
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ESL Gaming & EarlyGame Join Forces to Launch New Mobile Gaming Brand
ESL Gaming, a part of ESL FACEIT Group, and the Munich-based EarlyGame Group announced MobileMatters, a new mobile gaming brand
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New $7m i3 programme launched to back African e-health startups
Southbridge A&I, Salient Advisory and SCIDaR have partnered to launch i3, a US$7 million programme that will provide 30 African
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South Africa: SA Records Second Case of Monkeypox
The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) has confirmed the country’s second case of Monkeypox. The latest case was identified
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South Africa: Want to Give Organic Waste and Food Scraps a New Life? Try Earthworms #AfricaClimateHope
Landfill sites pose a variety of risks to humans and the environment, as well as the possibility of releasing toxic
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South Africa Turns to Renewables as Load-shedding Intensifies
South Africa’s power utility, Eskom, has announced Stage 6 load-shedding across the country following delayed maintenance and disruptions at power
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From sand to spuds: How Algeria galvanised its agricultural sector
Algeria galvanised its agricultural sector, Hundreds of thousand hectares of land are now in economically active in the Algerian Sahara.
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Plastic pollution in Nigeria is poorly studied but enough is known to urge action
the amount of Nigeria plastic pollution in the environment has become a global concern. With the world population approaching eight
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Tanzania: Court to Rule On Education Ban for Pregnant Students
A landmark case on Tanzania’s discriminatory ban education against students who are pregnant, married, or are mothers at the African
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AfDB Approves Establishment of the African Pharmaceutical Technology Foundation
The African Development Bank’s (AfDB) Board of Directors has approved the establishment of the African Pharmaceutical Technology Foundation, a new
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Global energy crisis demands urgency of accelerating investment in cheaper, cleaner sources in Africa
Today’s crippling spikes in energy prices underscore the urgency and the benefits for African countries of accelerating the scale up
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Protected areas in Africa are too small to safeguard rapidly declining vulture populations
Vulture populations are rapidly declining, mainly owing to intentional and unintentional poisoning. Against this background, an international team of scientists
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