Three students of Makerere University of Uganda have invented a pregnancy scan machine that has already won an award, Ventures Africa has reported. Aaron Tushabe, Joshua Okello and Josiah Kavuma, all sophomores of the University’s College of Computing and Information Technology (CIT), invented WinSenga, a hand-held device that can scan a pregnant woman’s womb to [...]

Although the 2012 Grant Thornton International Business Report may observe that 21 percent of senior management roles are held by women globally, around the world women are expertly succeeding in business and in growing their fields. In South Africa, the Oliver Empowerment Awards, a prestigious event to highlight leadership and innovation in empowerment, showcases two [...]

Monrovia — The only two female heads of state in Africa, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Malawian President Joyce Banda, have just committed to using their positions to improve the lives of women across the continent. Both Sirleaf and Banda have long championed women’s rights. And on Apr. 29 in Monrovia, two years into [...]

It is 10 years since the end of Angola’s civil war. The country has made enormous strides in rebuilding its economy, which is expected to grow by around 8% this year. Much of that is due to the country’s enormous oil reserves – it’s now the second biggest producer in Africa. The rapid growth in [...]