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However, continent needs to prioritise AI education and governance to achieve this, report says
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This week: an AI strategy, Africa-Europe research clusters and a call for R&D capacity building
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Location sends wrong message about African ownership, says health advocacy group
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Meeting hears call for additional resources to predict and mitigate floods, tornadoes and drought
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This week: development bank proposes African science institute and UCT hosts centre for bird-human interactions
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Africa CDC and Wellcome Trust launch programme to train leaders in evidence-based psychiatry
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This week: Pretoria's new VC, a Gaza statement and Wits welcomes short course head
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This week: a Rwanda vaccine boost, Future Earth nodes and an outbreak prevention partnership
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Continent’s own scientists are being excluded from study design and execution, academics say
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Africa Bioinformatics Institute in the pipeline to manage flood of data, Cape Town meeting hears
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Initiative seeks to link studies tracking health of millions of Africans over their lifetime
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This week: HIV and newborns, neonatal sepsis and a Gates Foundation appointment
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This week: Sweden’s aid cuts hit research, African physics funding and training for football executives
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Lancet policy brief highlights need for more doctoral leaders to address “critical shortage”
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This week: Olusegun Obasanjo Prize nominations and a social housing portal
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Experts call for thoughtful regulation after African Union releases draft artificial intelligence roadmap
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Ingsa president Rémi Quirion speaks to RPN ahead of network’s 10th anniversary conference in Rwanda
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This week: SDG data, a collaboration ban, disease surveillance schemes and a call for papers
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Initiative aims to use satellite data for damage inventories, risk maps and environmental impact reports
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Crop failures and livestock deaths reported as extreme El Niño summer extends into April
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This week: a sustainable mining initiative, EU funding for Nigeria and a “historic” university collaboration
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Blaming Africa for low demand perpetuates vaccine inequity, says African health body
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This week: new AI partnership and a need for innovation to fight scourge of hepatitis
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Politicians urged to prioritise hygiene and sanitation to save lives and money
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Continental satellite swarm would boost data access, South African space agency chief tells conference
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This week: a Kenyan repository, a National Research Foundation milestone and concerns over anti-gay legislation
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This week: ex-Africa CDC head lands job, African islands club together and Obasanjo prize seeks...
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Poignant playlist marks end of Ṣẹ̀yẹ Abímbọ́lá’s nine-year stint as BMJ Global Health editor-in-chief
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This week: AU science adviser, AI labs for Africa and training for lab skills
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Research reactor construction to start in 2026, with first power plant planned by 2034
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This week: Mjwara honoured, a policy for East Africa and $40m for climate-smart agriculture
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This week: anti-gay laws, a malaria funding promise and an African university office in Europe
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AAS hopes to re-establish policy leadership role after period of governance turmoil
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This week: space innovation, a proton therapy centre and a new partnership
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This week: Africa’s medicines market, a malarial threat and a partnership under scrutiny
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Continent involved in just 1 per cent of trials despite highest rate of new infections
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This week: Kenya lab expansion, a global rice plan and new UK-SA research grants