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Africa
Pan-African parliamentary science forum launched

afrol News / SciDev.Net, 5 May - An Africa-wide forum for parliamentarians which aims to give science, technology and innovation a more central role in the policy-making process was launched this week.

Seychelles
Seychelles gets its 1st university

afrol News, 30 November - Seychelles, a nation of only 85,000 inhabitants, yesterday inaugurated its first university. The small nation hopes to reverse the "brain drain" resulting from students having to travel abroad.

Africa
Open-source software intakes African universities

afrol News, 9 June - Academic research software is still unavailable in many African universities. Now, universities in Senegal, Mozambique, Cameroon, Madagascar and Equatorial Guinea work with partners in Catalonia to fill this gap.

Mali
Timbuktu ancient document centre opening

afrol News, 27 May - Mali's famous old city of Timbuktu this weekend will see the opening of a new building housing and restoring a collection of an estimated 700,000 ancient manuscripts, recognised as one of Africa's principal cultural heritages.

Africa
New broadband network for Africa approved

afrol News / SciDev.Net, 14 April - Funding for the first phase of an initiative to connect African research centres and link them to an existing European broadband network has been approved by the European Commission. The network is set to ease research in African institutions.

Africa
Africa's research output dominated by three nations

afrol News, 12 April - A new study in the field of research work amongst the African states says three nations are dominating the field, with South Africa way ahead of its peers. Egypt and Nigeria follow second and third.

World
Green economy strategies discussed

afrol News, 8 April - More than 600 delegates at the 30th Annual Conference of the International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA), hosted by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), will look at the five sectors that have been identified as key green investment opportunities – agriculture, industry, tourism, cities and transportation – many of which are open in the developing countries.

Africa
Is computer learning becoming redundant in Africa?

afrol News, 6 April - Teachers and technologists gathering at the eLearning Africa 2010 conference in Zambia will be debating a billion dollar question, attempting to work out whether future African students will learn from the telephones in their pockets or from the laptops in their classrooms.

Central African Republic
UNICEF brings books to CAR

afrol News, 17 March - The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is working to ensure that some 145,000 children affected by conflict in the Central African Republic have literature, mathematics and science books.

World | Africa
Education still under attack - Unesco

afrol News, 11 February - A new report by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has found that politically and ideologically motivated attacks against teachers, students and schools are on the rise, calling for greater community involvement to reduce such incidents.

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