Science & Technology

An international conference on drone technology has opened in Rwanda's capital Kigali. The event is being attended by hundreds of participants from 44 countries around...

Vodacom Group expects to offer 5G mobile services to its South African customers this year by using a network being built by another African...

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...

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,...

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 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...

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

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’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...

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