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Africa needs more scientists and engineers for developments- AU Chair Moussa Faki Mahamat

February 23, 2018

By Wallace Mawire The chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC) Mr Moussa Faki Mahamat has said that Africa needs more scientists and engineers to develop itself and also in-order to minimise its dependence syndrome. Mr Mahamat made the remarks during his visit to the African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF) headquarters in Harare to sign the AUC-ACBF agreement on the ACBF’s status as specialised agency of the African Union. Mr Mahamat said that Africa should now have the capacity to fund what it needs on its own and also to tell its partners what it needs. He said that 90% of the human resource capital in Africa is in the humanities and the arts sector which he said that was not bad, but called for training of more scientists and engineers for the continent to boost its development agenda. Mahamat also expressed concern at the lack of mathematics teachers in some African countries, a challenge which he said needed to urgently addressed. He also urged agencies and partners in Africa to evaluate their interventions to assess their progress to enhance the continent’s development. Mahamat also called for more scientific innovation on the continent adding that the continent needed more researchers. ACBF Executive Director, Professor Emmanuel Nnadozie, said that Africa was investing in unemployment due to its major human capacity development in the humanities, social sciences and the arts. Nnadozie sid that there was need in transformation of skills and this is a major issue which the ACBF and other partners was working on addressing. He said that there was need to mobilise resources to overhaul the education systems and quality of education on the African continent.

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