AfriSMC

AfriSMC is designed to cover
all areas of science including health, climate Change, agriculture
and engineering, among others, in a balanced way.

[AfriSMC @SmcAfri]

#Evidence without #story is a spark without fire

📌In case you missed it!

According to the World Health Organization, nearly ten times more people are killed in road #crashes every year than in armed conflict.

➡️🔗https://t.co/bzcZ10HFXW

[Science Africa @ScienceAfrica5]

➡️Annet Mulema, Senior Program Officer
International Development Research Center (@IDRC_CRDI ) shares insights & updates from the GrOW -EA project during the GrOW2 - East Africa End-of-Program Workshop held in Nairobi, Kenya.
#WomenEmpowerment
#IDW25
➡️🔗
https://t.co/ZMu1Dee6bb

[AfriSMC @SmcAfri]

Launched in 2020, GrOW Phase II expanded on the lessons from its first phase. It focused on critical challenges such as #unpaid care work, gender segregation in #labor markets, & women’s collective agency.
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@IDRC_ESARO
#WomenEmpowerment
#genderequality
#policy
#unpaidcare

[Science Africa @ScienceAfrica5]

Advancing Women’s Economic Power in East Africa

GrOW EA, a collaborative research program backed by the @gatesfoundation , @Hewlett_Found , & @IDRC_CRDI aims to dismantle the structural obstacles that hinder women’s economic empowerment
🔗https://t.co/w2HoCztBFB
CC @GrOW4Women

[Science Africa @ScienceAfrica5]

Nairobi Hosts #GrOW-EA end of Project Workshop

From March 5-7, 2025, #policymakers, experts & researchers from East Africa will gather in Nairobi, #Kenya,to discuss pathways for promoting gender-inclusive economic growth in the region.
➡️📎https://t.co/CN4vjPpLbD
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@PEPnetwork

[Science Africa @ScienceAfrica5]

Content Analysis #Reports of Media Coverage of Road Safety per country ⤵️
🇰🇪 Kenya
🇬🇭 Ghana
🇹🇿 Tanzania
🇳🇬 Nigeria
🇿🇦 South Africa

➡️Access Reports here ⤵️
📎https://t.co/4WXTS2zGjf
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@RoadSafetyTales
#RoadSafety #crashes
#Ghana #Tanzania #SouthAfrica #Kenya
#Nigeria

[AfriSMC @SmcAfri]

According to the World Health Organization (@WHO ) estimates, approximately 3,500 people die of #TB every day across the world. Further, more than 10 million people globally fell ill with TB in 2022.

[Daniel Otunge @danielotunge]

Hope for Another TB Vaccine as Trial Enters Final Phase https://t.co/Ka1gotDiTb via @scienceafrica5

[Science Africa @ScienceAfrica5]

-A spiking fever-

Long neglected, Lassa fever is surging in West Africa.
Researchers want to know why...

↘️Lassa fever kills far more people than Ebola does—10,000 or more a year
➡️🔗https://t.co/8pT83EEjWl
@ScienceMagazine
#lassafever
#NTDs
#Health
#Virus

[Science Africa @ScienceAfrica5]

📌#InternationalDayOfCareAndSupport

📢The world celebrates inaugural day of #care and support today following a landmark United Nations Declaration that recognises care & support as cornerstones for sustainable development...
➡️🔗https://t.co/68TIWM1iZN
@GrOW4Women
#Care2023

[Alliance for Science @ScienceAlly]

Launch of Climate Misinformation Report: Latest study on misinformation with a focus on climate information in worldwide mainstream media. We analyzed over three hundred thousand (300,000) climate-related news stories over a six-month period. #Misinformation #ClimateActionZone

[AfriSMC @SmcAfri]

"Most journalists reporting don't understand the science of it." - @danielotunge, Director Africa Science Media Center (AfriSMC)
#climatemisinformation
#ClimateActionZone
#AfricaClimateSummit23
#ACS

[AfriSMC @SmcAfri]

📌Happening now⤵️

@mark_lynas ,making a presentation on climate misinformation in the media.
Join the discussion
#ClimateActionZone
#AfricaClimateSummit23
#climatechange
@scienceally

[AfriSMC @SmcAfri]

Reminder: Starting at 10:30 am (Nairobi Time)
To Join , click link below,
Zoom link
https://t.co/OqkqzkFFvC
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@ScienceAfrica5
@ScienceAlly

[AfriSMC @SmcAfri]

Join us tomorrow from 10:30 am (Nairobi Time) as @mark_lynas,head of research at the Alliance for Science will be presenting on Climate Misinformation in the media.

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@ScienceAlly
@ScienceAfrica5
#AfricaClimateSummit23

[AfriSMC @SmcAfri]

Join us tomorrow from 10:30 am (Nairobi Time) as @mark_lynas,head of research at the Alliance for Science will be presenting on Climate Misinformation in the media.

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@ScienceAlly
@ScienceAfrica5
#AfricaClimateSummit23

[Science Africa @ScienceAfrica5]

➡️Key issues and challenges facing women-led businesses in AGPO operations as highlighted by Joan Akoth, TISA’s Program Officer

#WomenEmpowerment
#AGPO
#GrOWEAComms
#WomenInBusiness
#WomenInProcurement

➡️🔗https://t.co/FaGAEDfvBX

[Science Africa @ScienceAfrica5]

📢Happening now!!⤵️

AGPO CONFERENCE

➡️Enhancing Women's Economic Empowerment through Procurement.
#AGPOConference23
Click below for live proceedings⤵️
INAUGURAL AGPO CONFERENCE - LIVE
🔗https://t.co/Z4lJwr9SvW via @YouTube
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@StrathU @KEPSA_KENYA @unwomenafrica

[Science Africa @ScienceAfrica5]

📢Join Africa Freedom of Information Centre @africafoicentre now as they disseminate findings from the study on gender dimensions of #journalists 'safety in Dar-es-Salaam.
📌To Join the live stream, click here⤵️
➡️🔗https://t.co/DCcJOk4pOn

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@IDRC_CRDI
@UnescoEast
@SmcAfri

[Science Africa @ScienceAfrica5]

📢Happening now !!!

Africa Freedom of Information Centre (AFIC) share findings & recommendations from their research study on ➡️ including #women led businesses in public #Procurement, today in Dodoma Tanzania
CC @africafoicentre @GilbertSendugwa @IDRC_CRDI @IDRC_ESARO @SmcAfri

[Daniel Otunge @danielotunge]

Science Africa, Nigeria Health Watch Host Panel Discussion at International Journalism Festival  https://t.co/XfuZBaBYDW

[Science Africa @ScienceAfrica5]

Nairobi Hosts 2023 Ibrahim Governance Weekend(IGW)

The 2023 Ibrahim Governance Weekend,a unique event that brings together leading voices from Africa & beyond to discuss key development issues facing the continent, has kicked off in Nairobi, Kenya.
https://t.co/UeCC0kydBi
#IGW

[Science Media Centre España @sciencemedia_es]

🌐Meet the SMCs! We are based in Australia, Germany, Kenya, New Zealand, Spain, Taiwan and the UK

🌐We encourage accurate science reporting in news media by helping journalists access the best science more easily 👇#SMCGlobal
https://t.co/pjnTidiIZd