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Africa: Interview – Ai Expert Warns of Digital Colonization in Africa

[ad_1] Artificial intelligence (AI) is ripe to help resolve certain major problems in Africa, from farming to the health sector, but Senegalese expert Seydina Moussa Ndiaye is warning of a new "colonization" of the continent by this new technology if foreign companies continue to feed on African data without involving local actors. One of 38 people members of the new UN advisory body on machine learning, Mr. Ndiaye spoke with UN News about the landscape ahead, building on his experience […]

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Kenya: Chebet Closes Out 2023 on a High With World Record in Barcelona

[ad_1] Nairobi — Commonwealth Games 5000m champion Beatrice Chebet ended her year on a high when she set a world record for the women's 5km at the Cursa dels Nassos race in Barcelona yesterday evening. Chebet clocked 14:13 in first place, to smash the previous record of 14:19, held by Ethiopian Ejegayehu Taye as well as the women-only record of 14:29, set by another Ethiopian, Senbere Teferi in 2021. In second place was Taye, who clocked 14:21 as another Kenyan, […]

January 2, 2024 4

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Africa: South Africa’s ICJ Move Steps Up Pressure for End to War in Gaza

[ad_1] Cape Town — South Africa's referral of Israel to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the grounds that the country is contravening the Genocide Convention adopted by the United Nations in the wake of the Holocaust steps up diplomatic pressures to end the war in Gaza. Unlike the International Criminal Court, established only in 2002 as part of the development of international humanitarian law since World War II, the ICJ – more commonly referred to as the World […]

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