Africa’s broken healthcare systems have an opportunity in Covid-19

African countries are struggling to access Covid-19 test reagents on the open market

South Africa is deploying its army to enforce the lockdown but also ramping up social spending

South Africa’s president and ministers are taking a 33% pay cut and extended its lockdown

South Africa is working on producing 10,000 ventilators by the end of June

South Africa is leading the continent’s coronavirus testing challenge boosted by private labs

South Africa’s leadership in HIV research is galvanizing to tackle coronavirus and develop tests

South Africa is taking drastic steps to save its high-risk population from coronavirus

How long-discredited “race science” research got published from two South African universities

Africa’s great heritage sites are being mapped out with point precision lasers

Smoking has risen 50% in Africa over 35 years even as it drops in high-income regions

Everyone with the sickle cell gene mutation descended from the same ancestor 7,300 years ago

Think plastic is pure evil? The surprising benefits of the world’s most wasteful material

African countries need 50 times more doctors to curb their surgery deaths

Using honey bees to protect one of Africa’s best-selling liqueurs

South Africa has tripled its black science PhD graduates over the last decade

South Africa has spent millions of dollars subsidizing articles in scam academic journals

Ghana’s first radio telescope is the start of a continent-wide project to capture the complete African sky

Your bridal bouquet will soon be enhanced by genetically modified flowers from Kenya

Citizen scientists’ photos capture the impact of climate change on southern Africa’s landscape