Video testimonies collected by young people in their communities around the world form the basis of a network that allows for the expression of their concerns and for a dialogue with scientists and policy makers.
A survey of 10 African countries found that a lack of intensive care beds and medical resources led to worse outcomes associated with COVID-19 in Africa than in the rest of the world.
Africa shouldn’t try to adopt the scientific system from the global North without criticism.
Tokenism, top-down management and inequality still plague African research collaborations with the developed world.
Thanks to an inventory of over 6 million trees across five countries, scientists have produced the first continuous maps of the floristic and functional composition of the tropical forests of Central Africa, allowing them to identify the most vulnerable areas to climate change and human pressure.
An online conference about Artifical Intelligence with a focus on Africa.
Scientists in Africa meet more or less the same challenges as their colleagues in other parts of the world.
AAS is pushing for Open Access publishing of scientific results.
Folakemi Odedina, the founder and principal investigator at the Prostate Cancer Transatlantic Consortium, tells how she is turning brain drain into “brain gain” for Sub-Saharan Africa.
Excellent research in Africa is mainly related to biology and health.
