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South Africa

President Ramaphosa concludes SA-Botswana BNC

Today at 15:09 PM, via SAnews

President Ramaphosa concludes SA-Botswana BNC

South Africa and Botswana have reaffirmed their commitment to strengthening political, economic and social cooperation, following the successful conclusion of the sixth Bi-National Commission (BNC) in Gaborone, on Thursday.

The commission was held on the last day of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s two-day State Visit to the country’s...

Education

Liberia: School Feeding Goes High-Tech

Today at 17:21 PM, via AllAfrica

[Liberian Observer] Liberia has taken a major step toward modernizing its national school feeding programme with the rollout of a digital monitoring system designed to enhance accountability, improve nutrition oversight, and strengthen education outcomes across the country.

Education

Rwanda: ANC Political Leader Cummings Meets Liberian Students in Rwanda, Outlines Vision for the Country

Today at 17:21 PM, via AllAfrica

[Liberian Observer] – Alexander B. Cummings, political leader of the Alternative National Congress, met with Liberian students and community members in Kigali, Rwanda last week on the sidelines of the African CEO Forum, reaffirming his commitment to transforming Liberia’s governance and outlining a sharper political strategy ahead of the 2029 presidential elections.

Education

‘It’s put the joy levels up’: the flood-prone London school with a climate-adapted playground

Today at 16:00 PM, via The Guardian

When pupils could no longer play outside, St John’s school in Barnet decided to act, enlisting Trees for Cities to help rethink its outside space

The play area at St John’s Church of England primary in Barnet, north London, used to flood so severely it was often unusable. “It would get so bad that the children couldn’t be dismissed from the playground,” says Macci Dobie, the school’s...

Education

Nigeria: Fresh Crisis Looms in Varsities As ASUU Issues Warning

Today at 14:18 PM, via AllAfrica

[Vanguard] The Sokoto Zonal Chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), comprising 10 universities across the North-West, has raised serious concerns over what it described as the slow, distorted and selective implementation of the 2025 Federal Government ASUU Agreement, warning that continued neglect of lecturers’ welfare and university governance issues could trigger avoidable...

Science/Tech

US-DATA Expands Global Data Annotation Services for AI, Computer Vision and Machine Learning Projects

Today at 17:41 PM, via Tech Financials

New York, USA — US-DATA helps companies turn raw images, videos, audio and text into high-quality datasets for training, testing and improving AI models. US-DATA, a data annotation company specializing in machine learning and computer vision projects, announces the expansion of its international data labeling services for companies developing AI products, automation systems, neural networks […]

Science/Tech

OpenAI Claims It Solved an 80-Year-Old Math Problem

Today at 17:00 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: OpenAI claims its new reasoning model has produced an original mathematical proof disproving a famous unsolved conjecture in geometry, which was first posed by Paul Erdos in 1946. If this sounds familiar to you, it’s because this isn’t the first time OpenAI has made such a bold claim. Seven months ago, the AI giant’s former VP Kevin Weil...

Health

‘I used to be the shy kid’

Today at 15:01 PM, via BBC News

Tyler West opens up about his experience of school on Sort Your Life Out Unpacked.