More drones for demining operations
It seems the idea of drone technology clearing landmines is not really a far-fetched one, after all. Following our report a few weeks ago…
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Wingcopter in Malawi to stay
German drone manufacturer and services provider Wingcopter, has underlined its commitment to improving health delivery in Malawi, by unveili…
Drone companies and the quest for medical delivery in Africa
It was just the thing you would have loved to see on a lukewarm Johannesburg mid-morning whose tepid sunshine you were likely never going to…
Search and Rescue drones to get voice-detecting superpowers
It is not about drones lurking in the sky on the lookout (or is it a listen-out) for telltale human voices screaming into the void, before s…
Four days until #DUACon2021
It is looks set to be a really important week for the drone community in Southern Africa, with the Drones and Unmanned Aviation Conference (…
Intermap to work with Idronect on medical delivery in Africa
Geospatial content and intelligence solutions provider, Intermap Technologies has announced the successful integration of its NEXTView platf…
Volocopter still perfecting the VoloDrone
Munich, GERMANY – It has been a bit since we last mentioned the VoloDrone, Volocopter’s cargo drone which was supposed to be a game cha…
Drones making demining safe in Chad
We know we vowed right from the off that we would never write about war drones here; reason being we are against war and we believe there ar…
Hundreds of birds were nesting a in nature reserve. Then a drone crashed...
Authorities in the USA are hoping to identify the operator of a drone that crashed in a nesting area for elegant terns, scaring off 2,500 bi…
Drones stepping in to fill the transport gap in Africa
By Aiga Stokenberga; Economist, Transport Global Practice; World Bank Group; and Maria Catalina Ochoa; Senior Urban Transport Specialist at …
The eruption at Mt Nyiragongo
About twelve kilometres away from Goma – the capital of Northern Kivu Province in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) – lies an u…
Zipline retires the 'Robin' drone generation
You could say it has been another normal week in Ziplineland, the American medical drone logistics company that has found a home in Africa. …