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South Africa joins Facebook Amber Alerts programme

South Africa has become the first country in Africa to join to the Facebook Amber Alerts programme. This follows the announcement of a partnership between...

Sierra Leone’s DSTI gets $1mln grant for the Education Innovation Challenge

Geneva-based  UBS Optimus Foundation and the Peter Cundill Foundation have awarded a 1,050,000 swiss francs (10,5 billion leones) grant to the Directorate of Science,...

Undersea cable damage causes internet disruption in Africa

Damage to undersea internet cables have caused major disruption to internet services across Africa. Internet users in countries like Nigeria, South Africa, Ghana, Cameroon and...

Rwandans donate smartphones so everyone can be connected

Rwandans are donating and pledging thousands of smartphones so that those who can't afford such devices access one and get connected. So far the country...

Google’s system could improve breast cancer detection

A Google artificial intelligence system proved as good as expert radiologists at detecting which women had breast cancer based on screening mammograms and showed...

Ghanaians fume at local innovator who built a car-plane

For years African innovators have struggled to get the backing of their own people. Often it is either because their inventions are deemed inferior or...

Rolls-Royce unveils all-electric plane targeting the record books

Rolls-Royce’s ambitions to build the world’s fastest all-electric aircraft have taken an important step forward with the unveiling of the plane at Gloucestershire Airport. Work...

Meet first black woman with PhD in computer science from top U.S. university

28 year old Rediet Abebe is an Ethiopian computer scientist who recently earned a PhD at a top university in the United States of...

‘Penis fish’ flood beaches and got people talking

Thousands of fishes referred to as "Penis Fishes" have appeared on some beaches in America especially in California. The appearance of these 10-inch wiggly pink...

The impact of AI on medical education

Artificial Intelligence has proven to be quite reliable when it comes to taking in large amounts of data, analyzing them, and giving appropriate and...

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Nigerian High Commission apartments in Ghana demolished

Some new apartments built at the residence of the Nigerian High Commissioner in Ghana’s capital city Accra, have been demolished by bulldozers. The apartments have been constructed to...

Covid-19: Ghana records significant recovery numbers

Ghanaian health officials on Saturday said over 10,000 persons infected with the coronavirus have now recovered. The significant number of recoveries means the country now...

DR Congo: President’s ex-chief of staff jailed 20 years for corruption

The ex-chief of staff of the president of the Democratic Republic of Congo has been jailed 20 years by a high court. Vital Kamerhe was...

Covid-19: Zimbabwe’s health minister arrested, charged for graft

Zimbabwe's Health Minister Obadiah Moyo has been arrested over corruption allegations related to procurement of medical equipment worth $60 million. Moyo is accused of illegally...

Ghana’s new law that jails citizens not wearing facemask 10 years

Ghanaians who fail to wear the face masks in compliance with a presidential directive risk going to jail for ten years. They also face a...
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