Africa Science & Technology News

Ebola in central Africa.     The finding was based on the initial results of the laboratory of the National Institute of Biological Researches in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo).     DR Congo's Ministry of Health declared...

Food producer, marketer and distributor Foodcorp will pay a R45-million fine to the Competition Commission after a price-fixing admission, the commission said on Monday. "The Competition Commission has reached a settlement agreement with Foodcorp over the latter's participation in the...

Japan's fourth-biggest car maker said before taking a zero emission vehicle out for a spin. As mass-produced electric cars come closer to reality, their makers are trying to polish the image of what experts say could be a hard sell...

An occurrence of infectious salmon anaemia (Isa) has been confirmed at one salmon farm and is also suspected at two further sites in the Burra area, west of Shetland...The Scottish Government has set up a national disease control centre and...

PF party and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change say they want resolution so they can turn their attention to rescuing their country from economic collapse. But there was little prospect of a breakthrough at Sunday's summit of...

A court ordered the authorities to free Raja Petra Kamaruddin, Malaysia's best-known opposition blogger, saying there were not sufficient grounds for his arrest. Raja Petra is a leading light in Malaysia's opposition movement, and for years he has used his...

Tarceva significantly extended the time patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer lived without their cancer getting worse when given immediately following initial treatment with platinum-based chemotherapy, compared to placebo...Briefing.com is the leading Internet provider of...

African elephants killed for their ivory tusks Conservationists have blasted a UN convention and four African countries for allowing auctions of ivory to take place. Estimates put African elephant numbers at 475,000, after poachers killed more than 600 000 elephants...