Top negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf says US naval blockade of Iran’s ports is ‘a clumsy and ignorant decision’. Published On 18 Apr 202618 Apr 2026 Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGC) says the Strait of Hormuz is closed and that any ship that attempts to pass through the waterway will be targeted, a dramatic…
CIVICUS discusses the spread of AI-powered surveillance in Africa with Wairagala Wakabi, executive director of the Collaboration on International ICT Policy for East and Southern Africa (CIPESA) and co-editor of Smart City Surveillance in Africa: Mapping Chinese AI Surveillance Across 11 Countries, the latest report by the African Digital Rights Network (ADRN) and the Institute…
Edward Müller, Senior Solutions Architect, Mint Group. It’s no surprise to learn that students at all levels are using artificial intelligence tools, specifically large language models such as Copilot, ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude. But adoption rates are nonetheless staggering: 92%, according to surveys by Oxford’s Higher Education Policy Institute. Such a figure will be cold…
Gold Fields Ltd.’s Damang mine in Ghana is at the center of a policy shift as the government moves to increase local ownership in the gold sector. The state will take over the mine on April 18 after declining to renew its lease, Bloomberg reported. Authorities have limited the tender process to companies fully owned…
A crucial early warning radar plane, used to provide commanders with a real-time picture of war, was destroyed in an Iranian attack on the Prince Sultan air base in Saudi Arabia on Friday. PHOTO/UGC. By PATRICK MAYOYO [email protected] The Iranian Embassy in Nairobi has confirmed that maritime traffic through the Strait of Hormuz “has not…
CJ Oosthuizen, Google Cloud and Workspace specialist, Argility Technology Group. AI – and shadow AI – are proliferating, creating a series of new risks for organisations. To gain control of who and what is accessing corporate data, organisations need unified control planes designed to shed light on the entire environment. This is according to CJ…
At SXSW, Spotify co-CEO Gustav Söderström announced a major shift in how the platform handles recommendations: the Taste Profile. This new AI-powered feature allows users to directly intervene in their discovery algorithms, offering a level of manual customisation previously unavailable on the platform. The feature is set to enter beta for Premium users in New…
Vienna — As the global community gathers for the 69th session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) in Vienna, Kenya has issued a rallying cry for African nations to place human dignity at the heart of continental efforts to combat drug abuse. Speaking at a high-level side event organized by the African Union, Ms….
For the first time since the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was established, the agency used its expanded mandate under the revised 2022 statutes to declare mpox a Public Health Emergency of Continental Security (PHECS) in August 2024. The PHECS is a continental alert that enables Africa CDC to coordinate a unified…
Data democratisation has become one of the most talked about strategies in modern analytics, yet many organisations are discovering that simply giving people access to data does not automatically lead to better decisions. In fact, as businesses generate and store more information than ever before, the real challenge is no longer availability but confidence. Teams…
