Faustine Ngila

Astronomers have detected a naturally occurring sugar in a cloud of gas and dust near the center of the Milky Way, marking the first time such a compound has been identified in interstellar space and raising hopes that other building blocks of life may also exist between the stars.

Ghana's central bank has revoked the electronic money licence of fintech firm Zeepay, saying the company repeatedly violated regulatory requirements and failed to comply with directives aimed at protecting customer funds, marking the latest setback for one of West Africa's best-known payments companies.

Nvidia has unveiled a new artificial intelligence model for robots and vision AI agents, announcing partnerships with Japanese industrial and healthcare companies, which expands its push into the country's physical AI market.

Malaysian banks are deploying artificial intelligence for tasks ranging from customer onboarding to fraud detection, but only one in four financial institutions trust AI enough to use its outputs in decision-making, highlighting the governance and talent challenges slowing adoption, a new industry study showed.

Khalil Rihan holds no government post and appears on no official organisation chart. Yet since the August 2023 coup that brought General Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema to power, he has become, by multiple accounts, the most consequential private citizen in Gabon's economy, and, with his French son-in-law, a dominant force in the country's gold sector.

For years, the pitch behind open source artificial intelligence was simple: unlike the black boxes built by OpenAI or Google, these models could be downloaded, inspected, and run by anyone, a transparent alternative to corporate AI. That pitch is now colliding with a less flattering discovery. Court filings, class action settlements, and academic audits over the past 18 months show that many of the world's most widely used AI models, open and closed alike, were trained in part on material that was pirated, scraped without consent, or in at least one documented case, illegal.

Meta Platforms is facing a lawsuit from 26 current and former employees who allege the company used an internal artificial intelligence system to help identify workers for layoffs, disproportionately affecting employees who had taken maternity, parental or medical leave.

Canva founders Melanie Perkins and Cliff Obrecht are investing $150 million in an unconditional cash transfer programme in Malawi, expanding what organisers say is the largest initiative of its kind in a low-income country.

Nigeria has launched a $552 million basic education programme backed by the World Bank and the Global Partnership for Education (GPE), as the government steps up efforts to improve learning outcomes in the country.

A woman snaps her fingers during a video call. Without hesitation, the man on the other end opens his phone and sends another payment. She laughs. He sends more. She tells him he is pathetic. The humiliation is precisely what he came for. There is no nudity, no physical contact and no expectation that they will ever meet again. For him, the transfer itself is the intimacy.