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Sitting in her Vienna office ahead of a pivotal UN gathering in Abu Dhabi, Monica Juma is focused on a simple reality: crime has evolved faster than many of the institutions designed to combat it. Criminal networks now move money, goods and information across borders at lightning speed, exploiting everything from new technologies to global…
The author, Dirk de Vos Last week, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an open letter calling for a slowdown in AI development, with new guardrails and oversight. Sam Altman and Elon Musk agreed within hours. The letter followed the public resignation of Jacob Coxon from Anthropic, who says leading AI labs are recklessly rushing towards…
More than eight decades on, the UN General Assembly remains the place where the UN’s 193 Member States come together to debate the defining challenges of the day, from war and peace – to development, climate change and human rights. Richard Gowan, Director of UN and Multilateral Diplomacy at the International Crisis Group in New…
The typhoon is the latest in a series of storms in the Pacific, made more intense by the “super El Niño”, which has warmed the ocean, fuelling the formation of storms. Authorities have advised the public to pay attention to weather information. Dujuan, which is Japan’s 25th typhoon of the year, has hit in the…
Six years after COVID-19 killed millions, battered health systems, disrupted lives and brought the global economy to a virtual standstill, the world is still grappling with how we can prepare better for the next pandemic. The need is even greater amid growing threats to global stability and security from emerging infectious diseases as well as…
SASSA seeks a cloud-based omni-channel contact centre as a service solution. (Image source: iStock) National Treasury’s eTenders Portal delivers a mixed bag for the ICT industry this week, with a rush of new advertisements favouring those companies that are eager to engage in lower value, quick turnaround quotation requests. A new tender from the South…
Europe’s maize crops have been hit hard by this summer’s heatwaves and ongoing drought, with French producers saying almost half of this year’s harvest is unusable. To prepare for hotter, drier conditions, some cereal farmers are experimenting with sorghum – a crop from sub-Saharan Africa that requires less water than maize – although making a…
“I want my pictures to hurt you, I don’t want you having any free rides, I’m there to upset you and I’m there to make you feel uncomfortable the way I feel when I go to bed at night, otherwise there’s no point in me going in the first place.” That is what legendary British…
Compare two children born in the same year: one in a country with functioning schools, social services, fair elections and a dynamic economy and the other in a nation devastated by poverty, conflict, climate change or corruption. Neither chose their circumstances. Yet, one will likely live decades longer, earn far more and have a meaningful…
