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Faced with climate injustice, Africa must establish its negotiating power with clear terms at COP31, call for tangible financing, prioritize adaptation, and align its ambitions with the aid received.

Due to epileptic nature of the power supply, it is difficult to cope with the heat, especially during nighttime when the heat is intense.

...[T]he promise of a digital future may come at the same heavy cost to human rights and environmental justice as the floral exports that preceded it.

Experts say lahars happen because loose material on the slopes of an inactive but still changing volcano is washed down after prolonged dryness.

As Paul Kithima and the entrepreneurs in Makindye demonstrate, when refugees are given the tools to succeed, they don’t just survive, they build the future of the country that welcomed them.

An Ethiopian creator who built her audience in Afan Oromo died by suicide on April 29. Her farewell post and video remain on Facebook today. Platforms missed every signal

While African capitals announce their national AI strategies and tech giants launch their “innovation hubs” across the continent, millions of households are still living without reliable electricity.

The stories that are publicly available and widely circulated are the ones most likely to be captured in the datasets that train AI systems.

Overall, while the surveillance, abuses and huge concentrations and imbalances of power that AI and other new technologies enable are very worrying, we found a good deal of encouragement in these case studies.

In the AI race, much of Sub-Saharan Africa faces computer power outages several times a day and internet that costs over a quarter of a monthly salary, hindering AI access.

Africa has become one of the global creative economy’s most dynamic environments for growth. However, there is an economic gap between the value of what creators create and their income.

In a world where criticism is seldom allowed, and journalists and essayists face significant risks in addressing the inner workings of power, fiction offers an alternative solution.

The data-labelling industry relies heavily on workers in Kenya and Nigeria to annotate what AI systems learn. Those same workers rarely see their languages reflected in the systems they help train.

Climate change negatively impacts human, animal, and plant species. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), this crisis is leading beehives, which are vital to food security, to run dry.

When AI-generated harassment is treated as “engaging content,” it gets amplified, and women, especially women from the Global majority, become collateral damage.

Urban trees are not just landscaping features. They are natural carbon sinks, capable of offsetting human activity-related carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions.

Africa Wiki Women encourages African women’s advancement in online knowledge creation and sharing through training, contribution campaigns, and mentorship programs.

Companies that work in political persuasion are experimenting with AI at scale to see how they can make the traditional influencing methods even cheaper, faster, more convincing, and more automated.

What we are dealing with here in Benue is a calculated, well planned, full-scale genocidal invasion and land grabbing campaign by Herder terrorists and bandits, which ... is worsening every year.