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Congo Brazzaville: Africa’s science, technology and innovation week opened in Brazzaville.

2014/04/16

Africa’s science, technology and innovation week opened on Monday in Brazzaville. Several activities will be organized during the Week, such as the appropriate session of the Association of African Ministers in charge of Science and Technology (AMCOST), the General Assembly of the African Academy of Sciences, the regional workshop of the Pan African Congress for Ethics and Bioethics (COPAB) inclunding a equitable during which know-how and technology used by inventors, innovators and traditional therapists in general, particularly those from Congo, will be displayed.


Congo occupies the chairmanship of AMCOST and has seen one of its nationals appointed Commissioner of the African Union in charge of Human Resources, Science and Technology, which clearly reinforces the involvement of the Congo to the development of science in Africa.

“The holding of the maiden conference of African scientists, again 25 years later, the 25th session of the Conference of African Ministers of Science and Technology are landmarks in the history of African scientists,' Bruno Jean Richard Itoua, Congolese Minister of Scientific Research and scientific Innovation, said.

The Week, which is to end Friday, is organized by the African Union (AU) and the Congolese government with the participation of a lot of scientists in Africa.

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