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A red emergency kill switch marked with an outline of Africa stands against a city skyline at sunset, illustrating calls for African-led AI safety controls and oversight.

AI Safety & Governance Analysis

Could a Rogue AI Agent Take Down M-Pesa? Experts Say Africa Needs Its Own Kill Switch

As AI agents have already breached Hugging Face and Australian government systems this year, experts warn Africa’s mobile money networks need locally controlled...

29 Oct 2026 · 4 min read African Union

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa speaks with technology professionals outside a Silicon Valley campus, with the South African flag in the background

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Ramaphosa Plans Silicon Valley Visit to Explore AI Opportunities for South Africa

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa plans to lead a delegation to Silicon Valley after local government elections to explore how the country can benefit fro...

20 Oct 2026 · 5 min read Global

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AI In Society News

Togo Crowdsources Citizen Voices to Teach AI Its 50 Local Languages

10 Oct 2026 · 4 min read African Union Other

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AI Safety & Governance News

African Leaders Demand a Direct Voice in Global AI Safety Standards

At the UN Security Council, African leaders warned the continent risks becoming a testing ground for foreign AI models and demanded equal standing in setting gl...

6 Oct 2026 · 5 min read African Union

An image showing instruments used to carry out research featuring text "Can AI do real research"?

AI Safety & Ethics Analysis

Can AI Do Real Science? The Promise and Limitations of Autonomous AI Researchers

Researchers are testing whether fully autonomous AI agents can independently conduct scientific research, generate hypotheses, and draft academic papers. While...

9 Aug 2026 · 3 min read Global

African Union AI strategy highlights the gap between adoption and implementation.

Global South & Emerging Markets Analysis Medium risk

The African Union Continental AI Strategy and the Gap Between Adoption and Implementation

A continental strategy is a coordination instrument. It does not build data centres, train regulators or connect anyone to the grid, and reading it as though it...

20 Jul 2026 · 3 min read African Union

Global South & Emerging Markets Analysis Low risk

Why Language Models Still Struggle With African Languages, and What Would Actually Change It

The shortage is not of speakers. It is of digitised text, of evaluation sets that measure the right thing, and of anyone being paid to build either.

18 Jul 2026 · 3 min read African Union Global

Special Reports Report Summary Low risk

Reading the AI in Africa Report 2026: Four Findings and One Argument

The report's argument is that a decade of policy attention has addressed the wrong bottleneck. Here is what that claim rests on, and where it could be wrong.

2 Jul 2026 · 3 min read African Union Global

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