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Kenyan wins top Africa Prize for engineering

Elly Savatia, the winner of the prestigious Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation for his Terp 360 innovation.[James Wanzala/Standard]

A Kenyan Elly Savatia is the winner of this year’s 2025 Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation.

Savatia was awarded £50,000 (Sh7.6 million) for his sign language translation app Terp 360 by the Royal Academy of Engineering, the brains behind the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation – the largest dedicated engineering prize in Africa.

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