Tech heaven: Drone academy students help map out Africa's future


  • World
  • Thursday, 30 Jan 2020

An instructor teaches students how to assemble a drone at the newly opened African Drone and Data Academy in Lilongwe, Malawi, January 24, 2020. REUTERS/Eldson Chagara

LILONGWE (Reuters) - For Ethiopian aeronautical engineer Lydia Elias, building and piloting a drone to support humanitarian and development projects on the continent of her birth has been a lifelong dream.

Now, as a student at Africa's first drone academy, she is about to make it come true.

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