About drone-in-a-box and other commercial drone applications
Two hundred and thirty-seven. That is the number of applications drone technology can do for humans now, as found out by research company…
May 2021
Cloud-zapping drones: yeah; why not?
Up until around the year 2015, the first question you got when you mentioned the word drone was probably, what does a drone do? Fast forw…
Ethiopian start-up joins the medical drone race
Meet Avion, an Ethiopian start-up on a mission to change the fortunes of medical delivery beyond just Ethiopia. Founded by three friends …
Dubai policing drones nab thousands for petty crimes
Just to show that drones work in policing operations, we share the below story, courtesy of Al Bayan newspaper. We are aware there could be …
Drone helps catch suspect in South Africa
Watch as a drone help catch a suspected burglar who had tried to break into the premises of a South African company recently. The drone b…
Ehang back with new passenger drone
The last time we covered Ehang, the Chinese autonomous aerial vehicle (AAV) technology platform company was reeling from rapidly declining s…
A voice from above
Remember just this weekend we were saying no drone is a wrong drone when need arises? This, after Beninese drone services company, Global…
New educational drone from DJI
World leading drone maker DJI’s newly installed education division has unveiled a new product for students to have fun with in the classro…
Bridging the healthcare delivery gap in Africa: The story of VillageReach
The problems of health care delivery in Africa have for long been a conundrum that has become a study in itself. From a dearth of health …
Medical drone deliveries for Benin
A medical delivery drone has flown for the first in time in Benin. It’s a DJI Matrice 300. With amazed stakeholders watching from th…
Drone technology and the law in Africa
In the article below, first published by Drone Life, Kim James, the Director of UAV Aerial Works, and drone law experts share their experien…
South Africa hoping to locally manufacture drone components
A South African government official has reiterated her country’s commitment to winning the tech race, through local production of some tec…
UNICEF Namibia looking for partners for medical drone deliveries
The United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund must be thanking their lucky stars every day for drone technology. For drones have proved …
South African mine to add parachutes to their drones
There will be accidents involving drones on premises and other sites where drones will be deployed. But those accidents will not be becau…
Ziplining into Cross River State, Nigeria
First they went north; now they are in the south. After first landing in the state of Kaduna last year, Zipline, the world’s flagship d…
Drones in the medical sector
There is no need to waste your time explaining the below article from American consulting firm, Pukka Partners. It is a great summary of of …
Delta Drone spreads into Namibia
Multi-national drones-as-a-service provider, Delta Drone International has opened a training facility in Namibia, where it says it will now …
Delivery drones land in Botswana
The Botswana government has made history by becoming the second country in the SADC region and only the fourth in the whole of Africa to lau…
Cape Town fire aftermath: drones fly in to assess the damage
The Cape Town resident watched helplessly as the fire swooped on his home, turning everything in its path into ash and cinder. The fire h…
French court to referee security drone patent war
You know a bone is really good when two dogs are willing to start a fight over it. Maybe that did not some right. Because, when has a bon…
Bird counting with Senegal Flying Labs
Given developments in the drone space in Senegal in recent time, one would be forgiven to think that officials no longer need a lot of convi…
Delivery drones set for Uganda's islands
The delivery drone wave is sweeping into Uganda. This after the government authorised pilot tests for unmanned aerial last mile shipment …
RigiTech, Flying Labs in bid to kickstart medical drone logistics in Senegal
Foundiougne, SENEGAL – Swiss delivery drone logistics company RigiTech are serious about stamping their footprint on the African aerial de…
Drone enters fray in Argentinian soccer rivalry
As another quadcopter forces heliport to temporarily shut down in South Africa The greatest rivalries are always found on the soccer fiel…
New surveillance drone on the African market
George, SOUTH AFRICA – Enterprise drone solutions provider, TerraCam will be adding JOUAV drones to its collection of aerial drone solutio…
Lessons learned from medical drone logistics in Africa
Tip of the hat of the hat to the Inter Drone Podcast for scoring this video with Harrison Wolf, one of the world's top voices on medical dro…
Partnership deal to transform African agriculture
Drone technology has been identified as one of the important modern digital implements that can be used by young Africans and women to impro…