Abegaz

A workshop held in Dakar, Senegal, on 27 June - under the Solar Radiation Management Governance Initiative - gave African scientists an opportunity to learn about the issues and join the discussion

TWAS Fellow (1999) Ahmadou Lamine Ndiaye from Senegal has just been elected the new president of the Nairobi-based African Academy of Sciences (AAS). He succeeds Mohamed H.A. Hassan.

Berhanu Molla Abegaz who was recently appointed executive director of the African Academy of Science (AAS), explains how "science for development" will be at the centre of the AAS's programmes