AFP Video: Sudanese authorities are struggling to clear landmines littered across the capital Khartoum, as remnants of a civil war remain in key locations like parks previously frequented by local families.
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A joint investigation by Al Jazeera English and Liberty Investigates found that 12 UK universities paid Horus Security to monitor pro-Palestine activity online. Using AI tools, it flagged organisers and profiled academics.
🔗: aje.news/30ic1p | #Infograph
Here are some spring flowers to cleanse the timeline.
Hollywood propaganda hates to see DT coming 🤣 He has demystified America for the rest of the world, even as Hollywood, USAID, had done a great job of selling the country as a dream where democracy, meritocracy, and military might reside. You have to give it to the guy. Good luck, Hollywood.
🇮🇱 🇱🇧 A 10-day ceasefire deal struck between Lebanon and Israel took effect on Friday, sending displaced residents streaming south towards their homes, even as the Lebanese army warned of "a number of violations" in the area.
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🇫🇷 🇬🇧 French President Emmanuel Macron and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Friday chair a meeting of allies to consider sending a multinational force to ensure security and free-flowing trade in the Strait of Hormuz once the current conflict between Iran and the US and Israel ends.
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Vulture capitalism.
Donald Trump isn't just losing the actual war with Iran—he's also losing the meme war.
https://bit.ly/41qhsD7
everything we are seeing now is the consequence of having a political environment in which indifference to the deaths and suffering of other people - even by the state whose supposed responsibility is to safeguard their welfare - is a superpower rather than a political liability
There is a thing to be said about the use of AI generated rap music in AI slop videos from Iran, whether it is the inherent idea of rap music as resistance or the role blackness and rap music play globally when it comes to how the rest of the world views American pop culture.
Edward Said wrote of the Orient according to Euro-American constructions as stuck in a certain time, never changing; this metric is also a war analysis that Western media has applied in their “surprise”. It is also evident in the constant underestimation of the country's capabilities.
Edward Said’s Orientalism theory can explain the “surprise” element of how Western media and its politicians respond to Iran’s ability to defend itself. Like, it’s been weeks, how is this still a surprise?
Remember all this nonsense about the supposed inferiority of “third world” immigration? They really believed that and applied their theory to international relations and it failed. Racism makes you stupid.
Maybe it is not depreciating cognitive capacity but simply white supremacy at its full force with no mitigations ?
The. Rise. Of. Cognitive. Surrender.
Study finds that people who use GenAI chatbots rely on them 80% of the time, and develop almost no capacity to recognize when a chatbot is feeding them faulty information.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Tell them they are summoned . Even the lazy Ugandan people are not on here !
African countries, including Uganda, Congo, and many more, signed on to the “2025 Third Country Deal, “ where immigrants of African descent can be deported to Africa from the US. Ugandan state confirms receiving African people deported from the US.
www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/news/...
Africa is among the most exposed regions to both supply disruptions and higher prices. Around 70% of jet fuel and kerosene imports to the continent flow via the Strait of Hormuz, according to financial and commodities analytics firm S&P Global.
www.reuters.com/world/africa...
I need more Africans and African media agencies on this app. The bird app is exhausting and all the unsolicited gambling ads and white supremacy algorithms do not help .
Christianity has Africans by the throat and all the violence still lives on, may the ancestors take pity on us. 🙏🏿
In a new report, Doctors Without Borders says sexual violence is the ‘defining feature’ of the conflict in Sudan.
aje.news/ky2foo
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social [Kenya cont]
This is the first time a Kenyan court has explicitly ordered the State to create trans rights legislation and a first anywhere on the African continent. 2/2
After testing more than 25 AI headshot generators, Mahwish Moazzam found that every one removed her hijab from the generated images, raising new questions about AI bias, religious expression, representation, and human dignity in algorithmic systems.
www.law.berkeley.edu/article/ai-h...
New York City hospitals drop Palantir as controversial AI firm expands in UK www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
New paper from @aial.ie! @harshp.com, Dick Blankvoort, Adel Shaaban, @sashamtl.bsky.social & me
We analysed 6 GenAI ToS--finding missing info, major power imbalances & user obligations that are impossible to meet without violating the terms
arxiv.org/abs/2603.18964 & aial.ie/research/ter...
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Former Belgian diplomat Etiénne Davignon, 93, will stand trial for his part in the 1961 plot to murder Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Via @thecontinent.org
Today @thecontinent.org titled this data story “the struggle is real “ with the last paragraph
“Money can't buy happiness, but maybe poverty can take it away. Only 20% of the poorest Africans report good living conditions, compared to 57% among the well-off.” 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Economic analysts have been speculating about de-dollarisation, and the difficulty of getting rid of the petrol dollar, and Iran said, " Hold my yogurt”. Suddenly, all these infrastructures of neoliberalism we in the global south were taught were unmovable; have shifted, the myth is broken!
