Nelson Mandela Bay adopts budget focused on infrastructure renewal
The Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality has adopted a budget that directs the largest share of infrastructure investment towards communities facing the most significant service delivery backlogs and infrastructure challenges.The budget prioritises investments in improving water security, upgrading sanitation...
Call for protection of rights of people with albinism
The Gauteng Department of Social Development has called for the stronger protection, dignity, and equal treatment of persons with albinism. This as Saturday, 13 June, marked International Albinism Day. “Persons with albinism must be protected, respected, and treated with dignity. As government, we continue to work with...
Makerere University has reaffirmed its commitment to embracing artificial intelligence as a catalyst for research excellence, innovation and institutional efficiency, while calling for robust safeguards to protect research integrity and academic quality. The commitment was made during an online webinar on “Adoption of Artificial Intelligence in Research Management at Makerere University,”...
Bubacarr J.B. Touray, a Gambian-born PhD immunologist and former Medical Research Council scientist, has launched Seedmap — an AI-powered academic counselling platform designed to help immigrant and first-generation students navigate education and career pathways with the personalized guidance he says he lacked growing up. Touray arrived in the United States from a village in The […]
An AI-powered patient monitoring system known as IMPALA is significantly reducing child deaths in Malawi’s under-resourced paediatric wards, with two participating hospitals recording between 40% and 51% fewer deaths over a recent 12-month period. “Before we could have four deaths in a week or 15 days, but now we record maybe one death,” said Blessings […]
MTN Group is targeting R30 billion in “value creation” from artificial intelligence over the next three to five years, with roughly half expected to come from using AI to run the business more cheaply and the balance split between consumer and business applications. Setting out the plan at the group’s capital markets day on Wednesday, […]
The Central Bank of Nigeria has announced a major policy shift aimed at strengthening the country’s digital financial security through the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning, targeting a reduction in financial fraud losses of up to 70% by 2028. The initiative is designed to improve the detection of fraudulent transactions and enhance oversight […]