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Kenyan Startup Builds Robotic Sign Language Interpreter — and the African Dataset to Train It

Kenyan computer scientist Norah Kimathi has built a robotic system that translates a teacher's spoken words into sign ...
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Egypt Says More Than 100 Faculties Now Offer AI and Computer Science Programmes

More than 100 Egyptian faculties and institutes now offer academic programmes in computer science and artificial intelligence ...
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NVIDIA Confirms Morocco in Two African AI Compute Projects, Including 500MW Casablanca Factory

NVIDIA has confirmed Morocco's place in two African AI infrastructure projects, including a Nexus AI Factory now sited near ...
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Standard Bank Namibia Signals AI Push, Without Naming What It Will Build

Standard Bank Namibia says it intends to be at the forefront of AI adoption in the country, with applications spanning financial inclusion, healthcare insight ...
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Kenya Signs Responsible AI Declaration With Anthropic, Days After Being Named in the Company’s Threat Report

Kenya has signed a Joint Declaration with US AI company Anthropic establishing a cooperation framework on responsible AI, ...
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Lesotho Is First to Apply UN AI Blueprint, Starting With What It Needs Before What It Builds

Lesotho has become the first country to apply the United Nations Blueprint for National AI and Data Strategies, and has begun ...
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‘We Didn’t Interrogate the Bibliography’: Malatsi on the AI Policy Collapse, and a Redraft Now Slipping to March 2027

Communications and Digital Technologies Minister Solly Malatsi has given the clearest account yet of how South Africa's draft ...
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‘A Market, Not a Participant’: Rwanda’s PM Sets Three Tests for AI Sovereignty

Rwandan Prime Minister Justin Nsengiyumva has set out three questions he says determine whether a country is participating in ...
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Côte d’Ivoire Signs Eight-Year Zipline Expansion, Taking Drone Health Logistics From One Centre to Ten

Côte d'Ivoire has approved an eight-year public-private partnership with Zipline to expand its autonomous medical delivery network from one distribution ...
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South Africa Seeks UN Commitment to Global AI Governance Framework

"It's also important that a statement should come out of this General Assembly committing the international community to the ...
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UKZN Graduate Builds Sign Language AI After Watching His Parents Struggle at SASSA

A University of KwaZulu-Natal graduate has built an AI system that translates South African Sign Language into spoken English in real time, prompted by ...
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Microsoft Sets Out a Six-Part Definition of Digital Sovereignty to South African Officials

Microsoft South Africa has set out a six-dimension framework for digital sovereignty at a GovTech breakfast for senior government officials, positioning its ...