Wing joins the 100,000 drone deliveries club
It is a wretched time to be an Arsenal fan right now. Let me tell you about it – I am an Arsenal fan. Ending Match Day 3 of the Engl…
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Drones as first responders? They work
Remember the story we covered last year about Canadian drone company, Drone Delivery Canada announcing that it had made successful trials to…
Another drone delivery project for Uganda
Public health officials in Uganda have launched a pilot project to test drone technology in transporting COVID-19 samples in Northern Uganda…
First vaccine delivery by drone in the USA
It has taken them a few months to get here, but the USA have decided to follow Africa’s example, and might have made its first ever COVID-…
Drones to aid traffic management operations in Spain
Fresh from confiscating a mid-range cargo drone that was being used to smuggle narcotics out of Morocco, Spanish law enforcements authoritie…
Drone technology and the construction industry
For some, the construction industry is a notoriously slow adopter of technology. In recent time, the most exciting technological development…
Police drone crashes into small plane in Canada
A Canadian pilot instructor and his student are lucky to be alive after a police drone crashed into their small aircraft – a 1976 Cessna 1…
Drone technology in agriculture, construction and environmental conservation
Gleaned from Commercial UAV News, this article was written by AgEagle CEO, Brandon Torres Declet, who looks at the prospects of drone techno…
Investment vehicle to fund technology-based security initiatives in Africa
A civil society organisation dedicated to using technological approaches to fight crime and improve security in Africa has just had its effo…
Qualcomm avails flight platform to make your drone as smart as the Ingenuity Mars helicopter
This one goes out to all the smart people in Africa who are leading the race to make the first perfect drone made in Africa. We know we alre…
Botswana opens drone training centre
Apparently the Botswana government has woken up to the potential drone technology has for its economy. They launched a delivery drone ser…
Kenya looking to lead UAM race in Africa
Our report last week about delivery drone operations catching a cold in Europe because Amazon Prime Air and DHL sneezed generated a bit of p…
The case for mining drones
Drones in mining operations are used for a varied range of applications: from exploration, surveying and mapping to maintaining safety and e…
More work to do for Delta Drone International in Ghana
The mining industry loves drone technology. And it is hardly surprising, seeing how unmanned aerial systems have helped the industry achi…
Citywide drone boxes for Dubai Police
While some countries still squint suspiciously at drone technology and choose to tread carefully when it comes to integrating unmanned aeria…
Opportunity for young South African women to join drone industry
We do not know whether they were inspired by American drone professional Desiree Ekstein, whom we know as the original Drone Diva, but Afric…
European delivery drone sector stumbles
as Amazon, DHL, close operations Callum Holland – a fifteen-year veteran of unmanned aviation technology and head of Flight Operations …
Mozambique launch drone pilot project for cashew production
The Mozambican government has found itself with an interesting problem. For years, the government and stakeholders in the cashew farming …
Security drones and job security
Security drones have been good to humans. Well… most of them anyway. They have saved lives. They have saved people from dangerous si…
EU injects €15million into anti-drone project
Fourteen members of the European Union have pledged members of the European Union have pledged €15million into the Joint European System f…
Swoop Aero releases the Kite
The question of whether it is a plane or a bird has been answered. It is a kite. No; really. We are serious. Or rather, Swoop Aero …
Wingcopter makes another step forward in the US medical drone market
Denver, COLORADO — Wingcopter is growing from strength to strength as a medical drone logistics company of note in the world Having sta…
DJI gets patent for drone-in-a-box
Here is something you don’t get to read every day – DJI are behind the technology curve when it comes to base stations for drones. It…
Drones assessing the scale of destruction and looting in Durban
As life in South Africa – already severely hamstrung by COVID-19-induced lockdowns – struggles to return to a semblance of normalc…
De-mining drones gaining more traction
Twice now, we have written about how drone technology has been deployed to clean up in two African countries looking to erase the tragic rem…