African Decisions News

In the works

In a first for South Africa, plans for one of the world’s largest green ammonia export plants have been... Read more
18 Jan, 2022

Back on the road

A ZAR1.1 billion COVID-19 relief fund is being disbursed to minibus-taxi, cab and e-hailing drivers in South Africa, who... Read more
18 Jan, 2022

Greener living

The largest 3D-printed affordable climate-smart housing project in Africa is to be built in Kenya. Swiss building-material manufacturer Holcim... Read more
14 Dec, 2021

Aiming high

Postgraduate students of the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) in South Africa have successfully tested their own prototype rocket engine... Read more
14 Dec, 2021

Jab on the go

A mobile vaccination service is giving outlying communities in the Western Cape, South Africa, greater access to COVID-19 vaccines.... Read more
14 Dec, 2021

Deep analysis

Two new research centres have been established at the University of the Witwatersrand’s Wits Mining Institute (WMI) in Johannesburg,... Read more
7 Dec, 2021

Connected hub

A 10 MW data centre has been opened in Lagos, Nigeria. Owned by Africa Data Centres (ADC), the LOS1 data... Read more
7 Dec, 2021

Lucky shot

South Africans are being offered a ZAR2 million incentive to go for their COVID-19 jab. In light of the... Read more
7 Dec, 2021

Special load

The first long-range drone delivery of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, which require ultra-cold-chain management, has been completed in Ghana. Significantly,... Read more
30 Nov, 2021

Full steam ahead

Djibouti’s renewables development programme is gathering pace, with the drilling of its first geothermal well. While to date Djibouti... Read more
30 Nov, 2021