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Kampala, Uganda | URN | Uganda could gain an additional US$899 million in gross domestic product (GDP) over ten years from artificial intelligence (AI), but millions of young people who could drive that growth risk being left behind because they cannot afford reliable internet access, electricity and the technology needed …

  A new Commonwealth study points to a US$900 million AI opportunity for the Pearl of Africa. With millions of ambitious young people, Uganda has something even more valuable – the drive to seize it.   Antigua and Barbuda | NEWS CORRESPONDENT |  The next big Ugandan business might begin …

KAMPALA, UGANDA | Xinhua | Uganda is positioning digital innovation and artificial intelligence (AI) as drivers of tourism growth, President Yoweri Museveni said Sunday as the country marked World Tourism Day. Museveni made the remarks while presiding over a national World Tourism Day commemoration held in the eastern district of …

  However, the groups differ in how they think about the technology   COMMENT | SARA HARMOUCH | Artificial intelligence may not create a new kind of terrorism, but it makes existing tactics cheaper, faster and easier. That is the central argument of a July 2026 report from the U.S.-based think …

At the 2025 FIFA Intercontinental Cup in Qatar, an electronic tracking system used 16 optical cameras under the stadium roof and captured 29 data points per player 50 times each second. Officials used that stream for real-time offside alerts, while the same class of positional information allows analysts to examine …

COMMENT | AGNES AISTLEITNER | For the past two years, much of the global conversation around artificial intelligence (AI) has focused on massive, centralised platforms and powerful tools capable of answering questions within closed ecosystems. Yet, standing in the auditorium at Strathmore University during ClawCon Nairobi, surrounded by more than …

  By revolutionizing how we combat disease,warfare, and stimulate income growth, AI could fundamentally alter the terms of human existence   COMMENT | DAMBISA MOYO |  Over the long sweep of history, three forces have driven humanity’s greatest transformations, for good and ill: disease, war, and economic growth. By reducing costs …

  LONDON | TASS |  The number of incidents in which AI agents ignored instructions and lied to users, employing malicious methods to achieve their goals, reached a record high in July, exceeding 330 incidents in a single month, The Guardian reported, citing a study by the UK-based AI Safety Institute (AISI). …

ANALYSIS | URN | Uganda’s candidate for United Nations Secretary-General, Ambassador Olara Otunnu, has called for sweeping reforms of the world body, stronger intervention in armed conflicts and greater efforts to ensure emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence benefit all of humanity. Otunnu made the case for his candidacy on …

  Kolawole Adeniyi has spent the past four months leading Glovo Uganda as its general manager. A trained pharmacist from Obafemi Awolowo University, he holds an MBA from IE Business School in Madrid. Before joining Glovo Uganda, he held leadership positions at Danone, Airtel and Jumia in Nigeria. He also …