As Bill Gates promises US$200 billion for Africa, experts say lasting impact depends on supporting local innovation.

National polio laboratories will help Africa in its final push towards eradicating the disease, writes Chikwe Ihekweazu, outgoing acting director for WHO Africa. [LAGOS, SciDev.Net] As my term as ...

[ADDIS ABABA, SciDevNet] For years, Fentie Wabi worked as a fisherman on Ethiopia’s Lake Tana, until an aggressive green invader changed everything. Water hyacinth, a fast-spreading aquatic weed, ...

[SYDNEY, SciDev.Net] Mechanical engineers in the US have decided to make their exoskeleton design open source, ensuring the assistive technology for people with severe physical disabilities is free to ...

As the tobacco sector targets youth with flavoured products, control efforts turn to AI to weed out digital marketing.

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Climate change, conflicts, drug resistance and funding cuts block progress towards ending malaria in the Asia Pacific region by 2030.

Every dollar invested in drought resilience could avert up to ten times as much in future losses, says the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in its Global Drought Outlook, ...

[طرابلس، SciDev.Net] ظهرت سوسة النخيل الحمراء مجددًا في شرق ليبيا، إذ انتشرت بسبع مزارع في واحة أوجلة، التي لم تعهدها من قبل ...

The new, single box fermenter enables farmers to process beans properly and sell directly to exporters at 35,000 Ugandan Shillings (US$10) — a 40 per cent increase that eliminates middlemen entirely, ...

[WINDHOEK, SciDev.Net] Researchers in Namibia are growing vegetables in the desert using fertiliser made from green hydrogen, in a project pitching to be Africa’s first Net Zero village. The Daures ...

[MEXICO CITY, SciDev.Net] Noise pollution from deep-sea mining carries an invisible risk for sea-life, warn researchers, urging greater transparency from the industry to help mitigate the harms. Noise ...