Voice assistants, smart-speakers, and voice-assisted systems are becoming increasingly popular in the modern workplace. However, this increasingly popular wave of voice-activated accessibility is creating a whole new privacy vulnerability for the organisation. A 2025 review on Privacy in Speech Technology found that voice interfaces can hear conversations occurring in the same acoustic space and can…
South African talk radio is the last big pool of news that nobody can search. Locl is an attempt to change that: a platform that listens to the live streams of the country’s major English-language talk stations, transcribes everything, indexes it and lets you look up any name, brand or subject and find every time…
Addis Ababa — Participants of the 76th Session of the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Committee for Africa (RC76) joined a symbolic health walk on Sunday from the Adwa Victory Memorial to Meskel Square in Addis Ababa. The participants also turned the message of “Walk the Talk” into action while promoting physical activity and healthier…
With a Somali referee being denied entry into the US, and the surge of online racist abuse after 2026 World Cup matches, racism and exclusion in football are once again in the news. Overt anti-Black racism in football is well reported and researched. Less visible but important structural issues remain little scrutinised, though. The 2026…
The Brugge oil tanker anchored off the Port of Long Beach in Long Beach, California, US, on Thursday, May 7, 2026. Tim Rue | Bloomberg | Getty Images U.S. oil prices jumped 5% Monday after President Donald Trump told CNBC he did not care if talks with Iran come to an end. West Texas Intermediate…
“For a long time, people in the diaspora have been neglected, but they play a critical role.” Every year, people in the diaspora send hundreds of billions of dollars home. It is one of the single most important streams of assistance, far outweighing all official foreign aid. So why does it get less attention when…
When Washington chooses not to comment on democracy, authoritarians and their backers fill in the silence. Democracy is in increasingly short supply in Africa, but it remains a hot topic of conversation. If the Trump administration thinks it has opted out of this discourse, it should think again. Consider the latest developments in Cameroon. Since…
Confederation of African Football Federation (Caf) President Patrice Motsepe has firmly dismissed speculation that the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon), to be co-hosted by Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania, will be postponed. Motsepe made the remarks on Friday during a press conference held after the Caf Executive Committee meeting in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, amid…
For as long as humans have buried their dead, they’ve dreamed of keeping them close. The ancient Fayum portraits – those stunningly lifelike images wrapped in Egyptian mummies – captured faces meant to remain present even after life had left the body. Effigies across cultures served the same purpose: to make the absent present, to…
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has given a positive assessment of a conversation he had with US envoys on how to end the Russia-Ukraine war. Zelensky said Thursday’s call with Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, which lasted nearky an hour, had yielded “new ideas in terms of formats, meetings, and… timing on how to bring a…
