The Moroccan Minister of Higher Education, Research and Innovation, Azzedine El Midaoui, announced on 07/04/2025 the launch of the Pnardi (National Program to Support Research, Development and Innovation). “The Moroccan national program to support research, development and innovation is based on several targeted calls for projects, open to universities, research centers, start-ups, and companies,” says…
Mahmoud Maïna, neuroscientist specializing in Alzheimer’s Disease, received an award to develop a laboratory in Nigeria. “We are working on something very transformative: establishing an open-access stem cell biobank in Nigeria to answer questions on population-specific differences to diseases,” he declared to News Tank on 04/06/2025.The Wellcome Trust Fund Career and Development Award he received…
The President of the Republic of Namibia announced on April 24, 2025, that public higher education will be free in the country starting in the 2026 academic year. This declaration by the President-elect, Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, was welcomed by the University of Namibia (UNAM), the country’s main public university. UNAM, which has 13 campuses and four…
The African Space Agency (ASAf) inaugurated its new headquarters in Cairo on April 20, 2025. “This step represents an important milestone in Africa’s joint action,” declared Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty, speaking to the Turkish news agency Anadolu. Numerous African ministers, heads of national space agencies, and representatives from NASA, the European Space Agency, and…
The University of Lomé, in Togo, signed a strategic partnership with a local school, Sigma, and the french engineering school Cesi on the 14th of March 2025. The stated objectives of this partnership are multiple: to disseminate the project-based learning method; to familiarize Togolese teachers at both schools with this teaching method; to strengthen the presence…
A new forum for scientific collaboration in Africa, ASTIL (African Science, Technology and Innovation Leaders), was launched in January, headed by Heide Hackmann. “Strategic discussions on science take place behind closed doors on the African continent. Science actors in Africa almost never discuss with each other, and debates on the same topics run parallel,” Heide…
News Tank’s Africa bureau interviewed Elizabeth Colucci, Director of Education Policy and Programs at the Obreal association, on March 17, 2025. “We want to convince policymakers and decision-makers that investments in higher education are drivers of sustainable development. We are working on this through capacity building, with universities, university associations, and also ministries of education,”…
The Gamal Abdel Nasser University of Conakry (UGANC) has been accredited by the French High Council for Evaluation of Research and Higher Education (Hcéres) since October 2024