Touadera has turned to Russia and Rwanda for security support Referendum in 2023 scrapped presidential term limit Top challengers have accused government of election fraud BANGUI, Jan 5 (Reuters) - ...

A new Moffitt Cancer Center study suggests a widely used genomic test can more accurately identify which men with early prostate cancer are at high risk for their disease to come back quickly after ...

How do you teach somebody to read a language if there’s nothing for them to read? This is the problem facing developers across the African continent who are trying to train AI to understand and ...

The Federal Government on Wednesday cancelled the National Language Policy, which stipulated that the language of instruction in early childhood to primary school (up to Year 6) should be the mother ...

Vukosi Marivate is a Co-Founder of Lelapa AI. DSFSI is funded by the Gates Foundation, Meta, Google.org, ABSA (for the ABSA UP Chair of Data Science). Vukosi is a co-founder of the Deep Learning ...

While Python continues to be the runaway leader in Tiobe’s monthly index of programming language popularity, C, C++, and Java are engaged in a fierce battle for second place. Currently in fifth place, ...

Machine translators have made it easier than ever to create error-plagued Wikipedia articles in obscure languages. What happens when AI models get trained on junk pages? When Kenneth Wehr started ...

It’s Friday afternoon, a month out from the UCI Road World Championships, and Samson Ndayishimiye, head of the Rwandan Cycling Federation (FERWACY), has ducked out of a meeting to speak to me. “I have ...

Researchers are trying to bridge the access gap for non-English speaking Africans using AI by releasing the largest known dataset of African languages. The African Next Voices project collected 9,000 ...

BBC Studios has announced that Bluey, the celebrated animated series, has been dubbed in four widely spoken African languages: Zulu, Afrikaans, Swahili, and Nigerian Pidgin. TV Presenter and Podcaster ...

Watch as speaking a rare African language earns me unexpected gifts from islanders! Experience the power of language and cultural connection as they react to hearing their native tongue from a ...

Scientists record 9,000 hours of languages spoken in Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa as free-access training data for AI models. More than 2,000 languages spoken in Africa are being neglected in the ...