Infrastructure, Innovation & TechnologyTiny technology that can find pollution in South Africa’s water and trap itPhiliswa Nomngongo 6 May 2025
Circular Economy & Waste Management‘Forever chemicals’ are polluting African waters: Lake Victoria, SA’s Vaal and Kenya’s Nairobi rivers are hotspotsPatrick Ssebugere, Ashirafu Miiro, and Nelson Odume 3 Dec 2024
Circular Economy & Waste ManagementNigeria is the world’s 2nd biggest plastic polluter: expert insights into the crisisWale Fatade 13 Sep 2024
Social MediaScience journalism in South Africa: social media is helping connect with new readersSisanda Nkoala 17 May 2024
Noncommunicable diseasesTB vaccine: WHO expert explains why it's taken 100 years for a scientific breakthrough, and why it's such a big dealCharles Shey Wiysonge 8 Nov 2023
Science & EngineeringTaskeen Hasrod to represent South Africa in international FameLab competition22 Sep 2023
TuberculosisTB is once again the deadliest disease in Africa - what went wrong?Tom Nyirenda 20 Dec 2022
Social MediaIt's corn! How the online viral 'Corn Kid' is on a well-worn path to fame in the child influencer industryCrystal Abidin 15 Sep 2022
Infrastructure & UtilitiesSouth Africa's troubled power utility is being reset: CEO sets out howAnton Eberhard 17 Sep 2021
Climate ChangeHow students can use storytelling to bring the dangers of climate change to lifeKatie Parsons, Florence Halstead and Lisa Jones 30 Aug 2021
Public HealthHealthcare in South Africa: how inequity is contributing to inefficiencyRussell Rensburg 7 Jul 2021
Covid-19South Africa's latest Covid-19 lockdown puts spotlight back on vaccination failuresShabir A Madhi 30 Jun 2021
FilmBanning African films like Rafiki and Inxeba doesn't diminish their influenceGibson Ncube 23 Jun 2021
Covid-19South African scientists who discovered new Covid-19 variant share what they knowWillem Hanekom & Tulio de Oliveira 25 Jan 2021
Covid-19South Africa failed to get its act together on vaccines: here's howShabir A Madhi 18 Jan 2021
Covid-19Dummy's guide to how trade rules affect access to Covid-19 vaccinesCaroline Southey 11 Jan 2021
Environment & Natural ResourcesThe loss of vegetation is creating a dangerous heat island over Nairobi17 Dec 2020
Covid-19Covid-19 exposes weaknesses in Kenya's healthcare system. And what can be doneAbdu Mohiddin & Marleen Temmerman 29 Jul 2020
Covid-19Rwanda's Covid-19 pool testing: a savvy option where there's low viral prevalenceLeon Mutesa 3 Jul 2020
Markets & InvestmentWhat Nigeria needs to do to avoid World Bank's worst case scenarioWale Fatade 20 Jan 2020
MediaWest Africa build gathers pace for The Conversation AfricaAlexandra Storey, Caroline Southey, Lyrr Thurston 15 Oct 2019
Public HealthEthiopia must do more to stop recurring chikungunya outbreaksEunice Anyango Owino 16 Sep 2019
DigitalDigital technologies are transforming African businessesElvira Bolat and Nasiru Taura 13 Sep 2019
Infectious DiseasesKenya responded fast to Ebola scare, but cross-border risk remains highAbdhalah Ziraba 21 Jun 2019
ResearchMore work lies ahead to make Africa's new free trade area succeedBy Frank Mattheis and Ueli Staeger 7 Jun 2019
Media FreedomPendulum is swinging towards creeping restrictions across AfricaPeter Penar and Carolyn Logan 3 May 2019
Public HealthKenyan hospital opens human milk bank - a rarity in sub-Saharan AfricaElizabeth Kimani-Murage 23 Apr 2019
Film & CinematographyShowcasing African films on the continent for 50 yearsPier Paolo Frassinelli 19 Mar 2019
Primary & Secondary EducationHelping teachers get better at 'how' to teach as well as 'what' to teachYashwant Ramma and Ajeevsing Bholoa 28 Dec 2018
MediaStudy sheds light on scourge of "fake" news in AfricaHerman Wasserman & Dani Madri-Morales 26 Nov 2018
Renewables & Energy EfficiencyExplainer: why lithium ion batteries could be a game changer in Africa20 Sep 2018