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Instead of securing the release of their relative who had been arrested for allegedly possessing an unlicensed AK-47 assault rifle and 13 rounds of ammunition, two people who allegedly tried to bribe police now find themselves alongside him behind bars.
Egypt, through its Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, has led the adoption of a United Nations resolution on artificial intelligence technologies in telecommunication development, reinforcing support for developing countries in the global digital transition. The resolution was adopted during the World Telecommunication Development Conference 2025, hosted by Azerbaijan, after...
Mozambique’s National Institute of Information and Communication Technologies is leading the development of a National Artificial Intelligence Strategy, with technical support from United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, to guide the ethical and inclusive use of emerging technologies. The initiative was outlined by Lourino Chemane, chairman of the board of the...
Zimbabwe’s recently launched National Artificial Intelligence Strategy has been welcomed by stakeholders as a timely and forward-looking policy, with calls for its implementation to deliberately harness local skills, institutions and capital. Speaking in an interview with NewsDay, Indigenous Advisory Practitioners Association of Zimbabwe (IAPAZ) Secretary Last Matema said the strategy signals...
A team from Ain Shams University’s artificial intelligence program has won the award for best project among Egyptian public and national universities, the university said in a statement. The team was honoured during the fourth edition of the Egyptian Women’s Summit, held Dec. 13 and 14 at Nile University. The competition included a STEM and […]
Libya has launched its first Artificial Intelligence Youth Club in the city of Bani Walid, marking a strategic move to equip young people with future-oriented digital skills. The initiative was announced by the Ministry of Youth through the Dinar Martyrs Centre for Youth Care and aims to provide Libyan youth with practical training in artificial […]
The Gambia has signed a landmark agreement with the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Senegal to strengthen national capacity in advanced mathematics, data science and artificial intelligence. The Ministry of Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology signed a memorandum of understanding with AIMS on Dec. 10, 2025, in Mbour, Senegal. The agreement is part […]
If the past couple of months have proven anything, it’s that food remains our most fluent and flexible universal language. If there was a unifying theme, it would be the chaos of making food stretch…
Five days of wide-eyed adventure… Riaan Manser and five lucky Grade 11s are back from their epic tour of Antarctica. They crawled through an ice cave, slept under the coldest of skies, and set new records for the true cold plunge.
Actors in the United Kingdom have voted overwhelmingly to refuse digital scanning on set, escalating pressure on film and television producers to strengthen protections against the misuse of artificial intelligence. Equity, the UK’s largest acting union, announced the results of an indicative industrial action ballot on Thursday. With turnout exceeding 75%, more than 99% of […]
The Department of Health has launched a sweeping “due diligence investigation” into a series of hospital refurbishment projects that have already burnt through millions in what may amount to irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure.
A Limpopo man was arrested on Monday for allegedly raping, threatening and confining his sick mother.
Cape Town ditches paper for digital learner’s licence tests to combat corruption, errors, and delays. The touchscreen system launched on Monday.
An off-duty Law Enforcement Advancement Programme (LEAP) officer was killed on Sunday when an allegedly drunk driver crashed into the scene of another accident where the officer had stopped at to offer his help.
The death toll after the collapse of the four-storey temple building in Redcliffe, Verulam, has risen to five after one more body was recovered from the rubble on Sunday.
The death toll from the collapse of a four-storey temple building in Redcliffe, Verulam, has risen to three after two more bodies were recovered from the rubble on Saturday.
Pensioner Noah Libbie, 61, left her home in Bonteheuwel shortly after 9:00 last Tuesday to catch the bus to Parow Centre and collect her Older Person’s Grant. She was one of about four million people who received the grant. GroundUp followed her as she collected her grant, seeing how she stretches it to cover the needs of her household.
Far from its diamond mining history making it a dazzling gem of the Northern Cape, Kimberley has sunk into a deep hole of debt and failing service delivery due to municipal mismanagement.
The Western Cape mobility department has expressed concern about the “significant and persistent challenge” of pedestrian deaths after 12 pedestrians were killed in 21 incidents on Western Cape roads in the first week of December.
SACP General Secretary Solly Mapaila has notably chosen not to attend the ANC’s National General Council, which began this week at the Birchwood Hotel in Boksburg.
A timeline for the unbundling of Eskom has been set, following years of slow progress, with the hope of finishing the process by 2030.