Addis Ababa’s newest weapon against corruption is not a change in rules or power, but a device. The city’s Revenue and Customs Authority is fitting tax assessors with body-worn cameras, monitored ...

It doesn’t open up the tapestry of human experience — it reads like it was written by a shut-in with Wi-Fi and a thesaurus.

Gerontocracy, in and of itself, is not inherently problematic; societies have long benefited from the wisdom, continuity, and historical memory embodied by ...

It doesn’t open up the tapestry of human experience — it reads like it was written by a shut-in with Wi-Fi and a thesaurus.

By Karimot Olábísí OdébòdéDear Honourable Minister of Education,I must begin by acknowledging what an interesting and consequential one year it has been under your leadership. The decisions you make ...

Africa is entering one of its most volatile periods in decades, as overlapping security crises escalate across the Sahel, the ...

The hunt for the Garden of Eden has usually belonged to theologians and dreamers, not software coders. Yet a computer ...

Researchers at TU Wien have discovered an unexpected connection between two very different areas of artificial intelligence: ...

For many African languages there are few written resources online that can be used to train AI. The African Next Voices project is trying to change that by recording underrepresented languages and ...

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

This live blog is now closed. The civil aviation ministry, along with the air traffic control India Meteorological Department (IMD), are closely monitoring the situation of ash plumes from the ...