Telecoms provider to use high altitude drones for wider network coverage
Japanese telecommunication company SofBank Corp has led the way since 2017, but it seems the innovative concept of using high altitude techn…
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Belgian medical drone programme to deploy drones from remote operations centre
Usually, remote operating command centres for drone technology have been associated with the rise in docked drones, where a pilot can keep a…
Dreaming of sustainable drone programmes in African education
The best way to make sure an industry survives is to ensure that the next generation has enough people invested to keep it going. And giv…
Zimbabwe: Police drone pilots graduate
As drone technology adoption permeates further in government operations in Zimbabwe, the country’s police organisation has just seen 27 me…
Breakthrough tech for first response drones
Researchers at Texas A&M University in the USA have a developed a tool that is set to transform how first response drones will assess da…
Using drones to preserve historical sites in Africa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF6GZh-uAco The Cappadocia historical region in central Turkey is world famous for its iconic fairy chim…
Drones helping with geomorphological surveys in Antarctica
UK-based drone logistics company Windracers has announced that its drones are helping the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) unlock new data in …
UK drone logistics company sets up operations in Malawi
We guess having the continent’s first and biggest drone corridor – along with an academy that attract the best minds from all over the c…
Drone start-up expands into Namibia with new partnership
Gaborone-based drone services company Drones for Africa (not to be confused with us; we are Drones R Africa) have entered a partnership with…
Another South African municipality to launch drone programme
It is a huge statement of trust in a technology when government and municipal authorities in a country are lining up to set up drone program…
A drone that can track cyclones
In a development that could help with emergency preparedness for the cyclone-prone region of Southern Africa, a drone in China has successfu…
Drone company fights to stay in Dublin airspace
Irish drone delivery company Manna thought they were doing good. They had worked hard to be where they are right now; from the shaky grou…