Shape up or ship out: Kenyan journalists warned they must embrace artificial intelligence or be tossed out
In Africa, AI uptake has been slower due to limited access to technology, inadequate training, and regulatory concerns. Nevertheless, some media houses have begun integrating AI for newsroom automation, audience analytics and fact-checking
Kenya’s information ministry expands internet access with establishment of two more digital hubs in rural areas
The high-end hub will include a boardroom, computer laboratories, office spaces and a Huduma Centre unit.
Trump’s rush to Russia’s war in Ukraine has stoked fears in Ukraine, among NATO allies
The talks in Riyadh, the first time the US and Russia have met to discuss the deadliest conflict in Europe since World War Two, yielded agreement to form negotiating teams for future meetings and work to restore the normal functioning of each other’s diplomatic missions, reflecting a thawing of long-frozen relations.
Central politicians say Raila’s loss in African Union Commission chairmanship election has given the country a sense of oneness
Raila was among two other candidates who had presented their names for consideration for the AUC chairperson’s post. The other two were Madagascar’s former Foreign Minister Richard James Randriamandrato and his Djibouti counterpart Mahmoud Ali Youssouf.
Rising Artificial Intelligence uptake firms up Kenya’s reputation as the ‘Silicon Savannah’
JHub currently has 32 ongoing projects across various sectors, including agriculture, health and education, with most initiated in April last year. The hub aims to complete at least 15 of these projects by the end of 2026.
Kenya’s wildlife tourism nucleus lays out plans to broaden range of products for more earnings
David Kinyangi, a Director at the State Department of Tourism, underscored the importance of public participation in the preparation of the two documents and assured the residents that their views would be incorporated in the final document.
Kenya invests more in infrastructure to maximise earnings from Lake Victoria’s blue economy potential
According to the State Department for Blue Economy Principal Secretary Betsy Njagi, the projects that kicked off countrywide in earnest were set to transform the Lake Victoria Basin’s economic landscape.
South African scientists’ research on promising HIV vaccine cut short US president’s aid freeze
Several other mRNA-based HIV vaccine candidates worldwide have reached clinical trials. BRILLIANT is unique in being Africa-led, aiming to develop capacity for producing vaccines in Africa.
Assassination cited in killing of world’s first openly gay Muslim imam as South Africa promises probe
Police have not established a motive for the killing, but political parties and LGBTQ+ organisations say Hendricks was targeted because he started a mosque in Cape Town for gay Muslims and called for members of the LGBTQ+ community to be welcomed into Islam. Homosexuality is forbidden in the Islamic religion.
UN accuses Rwanda-backed rebels in east Congo of killing children, Uganda joins fray in Bunia
M23 is the most prominent of more than 200 armed groups vying for control of eastern Congo’s trillions of dollars in mineral wealth that’s critical for much of the world’s technology. The rebels are supported by about 4,000 troops from neighbouring Rwanda, according to UN experts.
