Australian drone logistics start-up Swoop Aero is now a World Economic Forum-commissioned global innovator. The Queensland company – which charted a path in Africa delivering medical supplies in countries that…

Maputo, MOZAMBIQUE – Mozambique can legitimately claim that it is the first country country in Southern Africa – or indeed one of the first on the whole continent – to…

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…

Mozambique’s national disaster management agency and the University of Portsmouth are working with international partners on research into the effectiveness of drone technology for post-disaster search and rescue missions in…

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…

The VillageReach president, Emily Bancroft is right – it might be sound like a tired cliché, but necessity really is the mother of all invention. Ms Bancroft feels it is…

The Mozambican government has found itself with an interesting problem. For years, the government and stakeholders in the cashew farming industry have been trying to enumerate the exact numbers of…

Two non-profit organisations that are helping with drone-based health delivery in Malawi and Mozambique are still hoping for well-wishers to help raise the $2million needed for full scale operations this…

2020 marked the 20th year in which VillageReach has been operating in Africa – and it was by far the toughest they ever faced. The non-profit organisation – launched in…