African innovators have excelled at this year’s Zayed Sustainability Prize annual awards ceremony, winning three out of five categories in a globally recognized competition, which attracted over two thousand applicants from 130 countries.
This year’s Zayed sustainability prize saw the highest number of applications come from Africa, an indication that African innovators are playing a pivotal role in global innovation as Africa won prizes in the Energy, Food and Global High Schools categories.
The surge in African innovators and dominance in the Zayed Sustainability Prize is a boost to Africa because these innovators address real-life social, environmental, health and economic challenges that are widespread across the continent.
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