The United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) in Malawi is working with a drone training school and drone start-ups to determine the actual scale of damage caused by Tropical Cyclone…

Morning one and all. We are in southern Africa today, where an official with the Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe (CAAZ) had remined the country’s citizens that the CAAZ is…

Another summer. Another tropical cyclone. And another. Yet more people dead and thousands displaced from their homes. Southern Africa has really not been lucky with tropical cyclones in many a…

Today we celebrate the work of Madison Jeffery, the Malawi-based Flight Operations Manager at drone logistics company Swoop Aero who recently received Women and Drones’ 2021 Women to Watch (WTW)…

There was a flurry of activity on a piece of land just outside Ntchisi District Hospital in central Malawi in the past few months. A group of construction workers gathered…

Malaria has been a deadly scourge of a disease, especially to citizens of low-income countries. Transmitted through the bite of the female Anopheles mosquito, malaria was responsible for the deaths…

It was a good end of year for Astral Aerial Solutions and a few other drone-based start-up companies that scored big at the 2021 Africa Africa Earth Observation (AEO) Challenge….

… extends stay in the country until 2024 It seems we are spending an awful lot of time with Swoop Aero these days. But it is a good thing. We…

Multinational company UNITRANS are stepping up their precision agriculture game in Africa by purchasing a fleet of the biggest sprayer drones that DJI has to offer. The new fleet of…

Today we pay tribute to the Malawi-based African Drone and Data Academy and South Africa’s Alti-Unmanned Aerial Systems, which were recently named among the winners for this year’s XCELLENCE Humanitarian…