Category: Stories from the Field

By Prof.  Jennifer Thomson The third edition of African Biennial Biosciences Communication Symposium (ABBC2019) was [...]

Biotechnology offers solutions to agriculture, health, waste management, security, and other sectors. However its [...]

The Africa Biennial Biosciences Communication Symposium (ABBC2019), which took place on 29th and 30th August in [...]

Africa planted a total of 3.14 million hectares of biotech crops  A total of 70 countries adopted biotech crops [...]

Things are looking up for a robust biotechnology and biosafety landscape in Senegal thanks to a revised biosafety [...]

Six thousand four hundred (6, 400) genetically modified sterile male mosquitoes have been released into the [...]

Dr. Kassahun Tesfaye Born and raised in the central highlands of Ethiopia, often called “the wheat belt of [...]

By HABIMANA Jean Claude It is Saturday morning in southern Rwanda. Nyiramana’s face is drenched in sweat as she [...]

By Dr. Hala Eissa The sad realities of climate change in Africa have continued to dominate the headlines. The [...]

At a tender age, my incontrovertible love for mathematics and science compounded by a poor state of health system [...]