african-decisions

Charged wheels

A Nairobi-based technology company is introducing what it says is the first African-designed fully electric bus. Business Insider Africa... Read more
1 Feb, 2022

Cool jab

Morocco has received seven freezers able to store a total of more than 2 million COVID-19 vaccine doses. The... Read more
1 Feb, 2022

Test case

The East African Community (EAC) Secretariat, a regional intergovernmental organisation, is introducing a digital data tracking tool to ease... Read more
25 Jan, 2022

Into orbit

The Egyptian Space Agency (EgSA) and the University of Cairo have signed an agreement to develop the country’s space... Read more
25 Jan, 2022

Renewed force

Copper and silver concentrate production has resumed at the Kombat mine in Namibia, after years of inactivity following severe... Read more
25 Jan, 2022

Sustaining factor

A start-up accelerator programme has been launched in Kigali, Rwanda, to boost local solutions that address food security in... Read more
18 Jan, 2022

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

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

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