The largest planetarium in sub-Saharan Africa is set to re-open in Johannesburg early next year with a fully modernized digital dome that will illuminate the screen with expansive visuals of the solar system. Star-gazers and tech lovers alike on Wednesday were treated to demonstrations of what the now-renamed Wits Anglo American Digital Dome has to...
Bad weather and poor roads can make getting life-saving drugs to remote parts of Kenya a challenge. Now, a company is taking to the skies with drones to deliver medical supplies to those in need and doing it more quickly. "Rains actually make access to these facilities via traditional modes of delivery very daunting," said Samuel Sineka, phar...
Группа специалистов из Российского государственного геологоразведочного университета имени Серго Орджоникидзе (МГРИ) провела в Республике Зимбабве первую совместную научно-образовательную геологическую экспедицию с местными коллегами. Она состоялась в рамках работы Центра исследований минерального сырья при Университете Зимбабве, созданного при под...
More than one in three species of trees are at risk of extinction worldwide, threatening life as we know it on Earth, according to a report published by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species. The report published on Monday has warned that over 16,000 tree species are at risk of extinction. Mo...
The World Health Organisation has given the Bavarian Nordic mpox vaccine the go ahead for use in adolescents aged 12 to 17, an age group which is viewed as especially vulnerable to the disease. It comes after the UN agency gave the vaccine the green light in September as the first shot against mpox in adults. The move made it simpler for Afri...
Rwanda's health minister has announced that the country will kick off vaccine and therapeutic clinical trials to treat Marbug disease in the coming weeks, as the country does what it can to contain its first outbreak of the viral fever. ''We are collaborating with the pharmaceutical companies that developed these, alongside the World Health O...
Over South American skies next week, one ring will rule them all. An annular solar eclipse – known as a "ring of fire" – will be visible on Wednesday, October 2nd, over Easter Island and the tips of Argentina and Chile. But what is an annular solar eclipse? Solar eclipses happen when the sun, moon and Earth line up just so. The moon casts a s...
In recent years, cybercrime has skyrocketed globally, with the number of successful cyberattacks more than doubling in the past five years. This alarming trend is also evident in Africa. In 2023, the continent recorded the highest number of weekly cyberattacks per organization. These incidents can have devastating consequences for businesses ...
Since childhood, Loveness Bhitoni has picked baobab fruits from the gigantic trees surrounding her homestead in Zimbabwe to add variety to the family's staple corn and millet diet. She never saw the iconic trees as a source of cash, until now. Climate change-induced droughts have decimated her staple crops. Meanwhile, the world has a growing ...
Hundreds of aviation enthusiasts braved the cold weather on Saturday to watch a display of various aircraft and see exhibitions show casing some of the latest aviation and drone technologies at the Africa Aerospace and Defence Trade and Exhibition 2024. The annual air show, amongst the biggest aviation displays in the world, took place at the...
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One tech-led charity organization is working in central Uganda to address digital gaps in hard-to-reach communities of Africa by creating internet hubs. Daniel Okello is a very busy nurse at this health facility located 26 kilometres south west of Uganda's capital Kampala. He attends to at least 100 patients every day but Daniel is not limite...
Устойчивые к антибиотикам бактерии могу стать причиной гибели более 39 миллионов человек за следующие 25 лет, об этом говорится в исследовании международной команды ученых, опубликованной в статье в медицинском журнале Lancet."По нашим подсчетам, к 2050 году по всему миру ежегодно будет происходить 1,91 миллиона <...> смертей, обусловленных У...
One tech-led charity organization is working in central Uganda to address digital gaps in hard-to-reach communities of Africa by creating internet hubs. Daniel Okello is a very busy nurse at this health facility located 26 kilometres south west of Uganda's capital Kampala. He attends to at least 100 patients every day but Daniel is not limite...
The robots on duty today at this new restaurant in Nairobi are called Nadia and Claire. They have become a local sensation as they smoothly glide between tables to deliver orders in the two-month-old establishment."At times we get really busy. More so on weekends. So when the house is packed, we have ten waiters on the floor and three robots....
The Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) and the World Health Organization on Friday launched a continent-wide response plan to the outbreak of mpox. The joint initiative aims to strengthen and accelerate African countries' response to the virus, supporting their efforts to curb its spread, and to save and protect liv...
Fighter jets perform white-knuckle manoeuvres in the skies above Egypt. They are performing feats of aerial acrobatics at the first International Aviation and Space Exhibition in El Alamein. The exhibition promises to showcase the latest developments in aviation and space technology, and includes a range of aircraft, spacecraft and defence sy...
Nigeria has become the first African country to obtain mpox vaccines. It received 10,000 doses vaccine from the United States of America. Nigerian authorities have reportedly prioritized five states (Bayelsa, Edo, Cross-River, Lagos, and Rivers) with the highest burden of mpox cases. Mpox cases have been confirmed in more than 10 of Nigeria's...
Africa is seeing a rapid increase in mpox cases with nearly 4,000 reported in the past week, the continent's public health body said Tuesday as it repeated a plea for long-awaited vaccines whose arrival this week in the most affected country, Congo, has been delayed. Eighty-one deaths from mpox were reported in Africa in the past week, bringi...
Botswana has announced the discovery of one of the largest diamonds ever unearthed at one of its mines. The diamond will be displayed to the public on Thursday. The Botswana government believes the huge 2,492-carat stone is the second-biggest ever brought out of a mine. Canadian mining company Lucara Diamond Corp. said in a statement Wednesda...
