Self improvement A free mobile app has been launched with the goal of helping 26 million Africans improve their skillsets by 2026. The Trace Academia app provides courses relevant to the energy,… Read more
Future food A group of researchers have developed what they believe is Africa’s first lab-grown chicken meat. They have cultivated a chicken-breast prototype, using an advanced cell-culture process which was developed over… Read more
Clean green A 30 ha carbon-capturing plant is being set up in Morocco, in the Sahara desert. The commercial demonstration facility will use natural seaweed to sequester CO2, with the goal of… Read more
Pooled resource A digital health information-sharing service aimed at hospitals, clinicians and medical aids has gone live in South Africa. The CareConnect Health Information Exchange (HIE) enables health professionals to access up-to-date… Read more
Cool effort New cold-chain equipment worth ZAR3.6 million will be distributed across the Western Cape in an effort to support COVID-19 vaccinations in South Africa. Focusing on rural areas, the local department of… Read more
