But many local fishermen say they can’t compete with the foreign industrial trawlers and barely catch enough fish to make a living.

The EU has said the agreement’s impact on overfishing is minimal. It has said catches by European vessels represent less than 1% of the total catches declared by all fleets in Senegalese waters over the last five years.

"When someone is given this number at birth, it's the same number that will be their school identification number, their university identification number, it will be their ID number when they turn 18, it will be their KRA pin number and their lifetime number... it's a lifetime number from birth to death.

"We have determined that the information regarding WorldCoin's operations is insufficient to completely exonerate your office. You need to resubmit your answers as to who should be held responsible in this inquiry," Mr Kiarie said.

But this empirical facewash evaporates when confronted with whistleblower accounts of hospital administrators who have no medical credentials berating doctors for a "missed hospice opportunity" when a physician opts to keep a patient under their care despite the algorithm's determination.

This is the true "AI Safety" risk. It's not that a chatbot will become sentient and take over the world – it's that the original artificial lifeform, the limited liability company, will use "AI" to accelerate its murderous shell-game until we can't spot the trick:

In a communique to the Nation following allegations by Mr Odinga’s camp that Mr Khan’s visit to Kenya last week could interfere with their case at the court, the office of the prosecutor (OTP)’s public information unit clarified that the official was in the country in his private capacity.

This is something we have the opportunity to address this year through the campaign for the ratification of the African Disability Protocol (ADP). The is the legal framework on which African Union (AU) member-states are expected to formulate disability laws and policies to promote disability rights in their countries. [...] It was adopted in 2018 by the AU, but for it to become legally binding we need 15 member states to sign and ratify it. So far only Mali and Kenya have fully ratified it, while some others are at various stages of signing up.

Ever since, Kiir has been at the top of the political hierarchy, becoming president of South Sudan after it gained independence in 2011. In this time, he has not changed his strategy of giving his rivals reasons to underestimate him. He still allows his apparent weaknesses to be seen and highlighted. He has only occasionally let the mask slip, such as at a rally in 2013, soon after he had fired his entire cabinet, when Kiir revealed that he sees himself as a tiger who hides his claws.

The petitioner says that the use of monofilament nets and beach seine nets for fishing is a traditional and long-standing artisanal fishing practice by Lamu inhabitants.

“I saw people dying in front of me,” says survivor Mohammed Isa Omar.

The price of cobalt has doubled since January, and more than two-thirds of the global supply is here in Congo.

Attracted by the promise of well-paid work and a chance to escape joblessness at home, more than 100,000 Kenyans work in Saudi Arabia - sending home millions of dollars every year, government and central bank data shows.

cross-posted from: https://baraza.africa/post/17299

... [t]he exporters are arguing that the law should ban the local consumption of the species, which is native to River Nile and Lake Albert in Uganda as a measure to protect the Nile perch which is currently threatened by illegal fishing methods. Goswami who says that they have exported fish to the European market for the last 22 years, demands that local consumption should be limited to tilapia.

... [t]he exporters are arguing that the law should ban the local consumption of the species, which is native to River Nile and Lake Albert in Uganda as a measure to protect the Nile perch which is currently threatened by illegal fishing methods. Goswami who says that they have exported fish to the European market for the last 22 years, demands that local consumption should be limited to tilapia.