Trends & Innovations

[New Zimbabwe] VAYA Africa, a Mauritius-registered Transportation as a Service (TaaS) company, has launched an electric vehicle service in Zimbabwe as part of the company’s rollout strategy across Africa.Read More

[allAfrica] Cape Town -With a decade of experience in the development of diagnostic kits, the  Moroccan Foundation for Advanced Science, Innovation, and Research Foundation (MAScIR), a research and development institution based in Rabat, had its novel coronavirus diagnostic kit validated by the country’s Royal Armed Forces, the Royal Gendarmerie and …

[Africa Renewal] A stark hunger outlook means finding new ways to reach Somalis in need.Read More

[Nyasa Times] President Peter Mutharika has challenged universities to scale up efforts in being innovative as one way of dealing with hurdles rocking the country.Read More

[Daily Maverick] The Covid-19 pandemic has changed the world in many ways. But perhaps the most profound change is the accelerated way in which digital transformation and the move to the Fourth Industrial Revolution have moved at warp speed.Read More

[WHO] Brazzaville -On an overcast morning on the outskirts of the Kenyan city of Kisumu, which perches on the edge of Lake Victoria, a queue of commuters receives a spritz of hand sanitizer before boarding a minibus taxi, known locally as a matatu, to head into town.Read More

[Monitor] Following the closure of institutions of learning in March, a number of schools have since innovated ways to keep the pupils learning to avoid risks of poor performance when they finally reopen.Read More

[263Chat] Vaya Africa, a Mauritius-registered Transportation as a Service (TaaS) company, has launched an electric vehicle service in Zimbabwe as part of the company’s rollout strategy across Africa.Read More

[Africa Renewal] The COVID-19 pandemic response and recovery offer Africa’s youth opportunities to come up with innovations across different sectors, and create much-needed jobs, according to African Union (AU) Special Envoy Ms. Okonjo-Iweala.Read More

[Nation] Boniface Jiveri, a researcher currently working at Kaimosi Friends University College, has invented a clean cooking and lighting fuel that peri-urban and rural poor can use. The fuel, Bio-gel, is also a mosquito repellent and air freshener. In addition, Jiveri generates organic fertiliser from the waste that is used …