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Fresh impetus is being directed into identifying and advocating for scientific priorities in the area of food security and nutrition across Africa, with a particular focus on health implications. At the centre of these efforts is a a five-year project initiated by the Alliance for Accelerating Excellence in Africa, a partnership between the African Academy of Sciences and the African Union Development Agency-NEPAD. This project aims to identify the continent’s most urgent research and develop...

2Central Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory (CTRL), Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; 3School of Life Science and Bioengineering, Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology, Arusha, Tanzania; 4University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada; 5Department of Epidemiology and Statistics, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Correspondence: Nicholaus P Mnyambwa Email lodnicho@gmail.com Introduction: Antimicrobial resistance is one of the biggest threa...

Grand Challenges Botswana – a new programme to fund impressive innovations Feb 25, 2021 The Botswana Innovation Hub today announced a new funding programme, Grand Challenges Botswana, to support bold and impressive innovations to accelerate progress towards achieving Botswana’s national development priorities and economic transformation. The Botswana Innovation Hub partners with the Alliance for Accelerating Excellence in Science in Africa (AESA) – an initiative o...

2021-02-25 15:30:28 GMT2021-02-25 23:30:28(Beijing Time) Xinhua English GABORONE, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) -- Botswana Innovation Hub (BIH) has launched a new funding program dubbed Grand Challenges Botswana, to support innovations that can accelerate progress towards achieving national development priorities and economic transformation. "Launching Grand Challenges Botswana today, gives me renewed hope that we are on course towards achieving our national Vision 2036 aspirations. We are looking a...

Monitoring and Evaluation Job in Kenya about Climate Change and Environment, requiring 3-4 years of experience, from AAS; closing on 02 Mar 2021

Donor funding rules limit basic research opportunities Africa’s total research output is merely 1% of the world’s scientific research production and there are no indicators that the situation will improve in the near future, simply because there is insufficient funding for science on the continent, according to Elizabeth Marincola, a senior adviser for communications at the Nairobi-based African Academy of Sciences (AAS). The issue is that, whereas all the 54 countries in the continent comm...