2026 Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation Final

MoyoECG is an AI-powered electrocardiogram device enabling rural clinics to deliver hospital-grade cardiac screening in low resourced settings, supporting early detection of heart disease.

Likita Care is a locally manufactured monitoring kit for hospitals and clinics, combining vital signs, cardiac and prenatal monitoring with offline AI decision support and digital protocols to improve triage and patient safety.

Renal Roads is sub-Saharan Africa’s first mobile dialysis unit, bringing hospital-grade kidney care directly to rural communities, so that patients can access life-saving treatment without regularly travelling long distances.

Pee-Cycling is a fertiliser system that transforms human urine into safe liquid fertiliser and reusable water, helping cities to conserve water and reduce dependence on imported fertilisers.

Fusion Wind Turbine is a gearless vertical-axis wind turbine integrated with a solar arch, designed as a modular, locally repairable microgrid system that delivers clean, reliable energy to underserved African communities, supports healthcare, and reduces reliance on diesel generators.

An affordable household water treatment system that delivers safe drinking water directly at the point of use for off-grid rural communities.

Jangalma is an AI-powered education platform created by Didactic Corporation SAS, providing affordable, personalised learning and tutoring to secondary school students across Francophone Africa, regardless of income, location or connectivity.

DawaMom is an AI-enabled maternal and reproductive health platform helping women to access trusted guidance in local languages, alongside diagnostics, triage and referrals through community and clinic-based care.

WaterBank is a solar-powered, self-running water utility that filters and desalinates water, uses AI to prevent breakdowns, and enables cashless access via prepaid radio frequency ID cards for off-grid communities.

Just Add Water is a quantum and AI-optimised regenerate fuelcell technology, providing clean energy and medical grade oxygen to healthcare facilities, reducing dependence on fossil fuels and third-party oxygen delivery.

HarakaPlus is a smart mobility platform that provides live bus location and passenger-demand data, helping commuters and transport operators to make public transport more reliable across African cities.

Zaidi App is an eco-fintech platform that helps cities to digitise waste collection, formalise informal recycling work, and unlock financial services for waste workers and waste contractors.

Farmflex is an AI-enabled platform that helps smallholder farmers to save water, reduce risks, and build their digital footprints so that they can access credit, insurance and new markets.

LabZero is a virtual tissue culture lab that enables students to practise growing and maintaining cells safely on a digital platform, which reduces contamination, cuts plastic waste, and widens access to biomedical research training.

Efiwe is a mobile-first coding platform that runs offline on basic smartphones, enabling young people excluded from traditional digital education to learn the principles of web development with AI support in 189 languages.