Tanzania's Professor Hulda Swai wins prestigious science award.

Tanzanian professor of life sciences and bio-engineering, Hulda Swai, has been declared the 2020 winner of the African Union Kwame Nkrumah Continental Awards for Scientific Excellence.

The Gambia holds hearings on the massacre of West African migrants during ex-president Yahya Jammeh’s rule.

And in our weekly letter from Africa, Nigerian journalist and novelist Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani reflects on a recent call for Nigerians to take security into their own hands.

(Picture: Professor Hulda Swai winner of the 2020 African Union Kwame Nkrumah Continental Awards for Scientific Excellence. Credit: Professor Hulda Swai)