Somalia and COVID-19: how we used satellite data to track the toll of the pandemic
WHILE the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has been well documented in high-income countries, much less is known about its
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SCIENCE, TECH AND INNOVATION
New tools to map flood risk will help bring disaster planning up to date
ABOUT 90% of natural disasters are water-related – most notably cyclones, floods and droughts. HAMID MEHMOOD, Senior Researcher, United Nations
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Worried about labour pains? Get the Talkative Mom app!
48 hours in labour without adequate information was enough to prompt Eno Quagraine to start a blog and then launch an app. Dubbed “Talkative Mom”, her app enables women to access crucial – and potentially life-saving – information about childbearing, medical specialists and medical facilities – with a dose of home-brewed comedy thrown in.
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Surveillance laws are failing to protect privacy rights: what we found in six African countries
ON paper, privacy rights for citizens of countries throughout Africa are well protected. Privacy rights are written into constitutions, international
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What makes FinTech solutions succeed? We built a model based on Ghana’s experience
NEARLY a quarter of adults in the world do not have access to a basic bank account. Financial technology (FinTech)
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Young African scientist making waves worldwide
MANUEL Ntumba believes Africa can achieve its global sustainable development goals quicker through digital transformation. That requires more satellites, preferably satellites that belong to Africa and are managed by African space agencies. The 21-year-old space scientist is going all-out to find solutions that will make this all happen, quickly.
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Two Americans win Medicine Nobel for work on heat and touch
JOHAN AHLANDER and LUDWIG BURGER AMERICAN scientists David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian won the 2021 Nobel Prize for Medicine on
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Male mosquitoes don’t want your blood, but they still find you very attractive
THE whine of the mosquito is unpleasant and often inescapable outdoors on summer evenings. Mosquitoes track you down from tens
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In the search for reliable data, space science takes off in Africa
AFRICA is to send more satellites than it has over the last 20 years to the earth’s orbit in the hunt for critical data points that could boost the continent’s access to drinking water, tame deforestation, manage rapid urbanisation and help find lasting solutions to food security.
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High-tech internet solution across the Congo River links Kinshasa, Brazzaville
ALPHABET’S Project Taara is now beaming high-speed internet across the Congo River to millions of people in Brazzaville and Kinshasa, in what is expected to further bridge the digital divide in central Africa and accelerate online businesses
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