SDU trains Kazakhstan's cyber defenders as cybercrime losses rise 29-fold in a year
The world is short of 4.76 million cybersecurity professionals, and Kazakhstan's reported cybercrime losses rose 29-fold in a year. SDU University in Almaty Region built the first university course with Cloudflare to train defenders on the systems attackers target, and offers educational courses to relevant fields in the industry.
Mauritian researchers build a leishmaniasis wound patch from sugarcane waste
Cutaneous leishmaniasis scars close to 1 million people a year, and the dressings used to treat the open wounds it leaves have lagged behind the drugs used to treat the infection itself. A team at the University of Mauritius has built a new one out of sugarcane fibre, the country's oldest industrial waste product.
Zimbabwe's climate-resilient crops vital for Africa's food security
Climate change is pushing Zimbabwe's conventional crop value chains toward failure across all five of the country's agroecological regions. Marondera University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology is betting on vegetables that grew wild for generations, now bred, seeded, and sold back through a farmer network 430 strong.