Africa Science & Technology News

Is expected to announce in the coming hours of the Americas agreement between the two giants (Yahoo) and (Microsoft) in the field of search engines, so that together can compete with the biggest giant in this area is the engine...

Niger — A crisp African dawn is breaking overhead, and Zibo Mounkaila is on the back of a pickup truck bounding across a sparse landscape of rocky orange soil. The tallest animals on earth are here, the guide says, somewhere...

One of Africa’s toughest challenges — malaria — is finally getting the attention it deserves. For the past week in Nairobi, the world’s leading malaria experts met at the Multilateral Initiative on Malaria Conference to review the latest strategies to...

Lagos yesterday, have called for an integration of the old and new media in presenting information to the people of the continent.

Red List of Threatened Species, 17,291 were deemed to be at serious risk. These included 21% of mammals, 30% of amphibians, 70% of plants and 35% of invertebrates. Biodiversity Conservation Group. "The latest analysis... shows that the 2010 target to...

A new study has shown that owing to high price of artemisinin combination therapy (ACT), the most effective medicines for treating malaria, ineffective monotherapies are dominating high-burden malarious countries. Dr. Kathryn O'Connell said that majority of malaria endemic countries changed...

Globalive from setting up shop as Canada's fourth national cellphone company. Jumping spiders use blood they get from eating mosquitoes as a perfume to attract the opposite sex, researchers say. More Canadians are coming forward with complaints about how they...

Proba-2 mini-satellite, developed under European Space Agency's initiative, has been successfully launched," Aleksei Zolotukhin said, adding the launch took place at 4.50 a.m...The mission is part of ESA's Earth Explorer Envelope Programme. The 130-kg Proba-2 (Project for On-Board Autonomy)...