Bourita & Michael Pompeo

Generative AI-driven fraud surges across Africa, reaching crisis levels — Smile ID report

Generative AI was behind more than a third of new biometric fraud cases in Africa last year, according to a new report by Smile ID, the continent’s leading provider of identity verification solutions, warning that the surge in deepfakes threatens the data of millions of consumers whose details are held on insecure systems. The 2025 […]

Algeria reinforces siege around Tindouf camps

The Sahraouis held by the Polisario in the Tindouf camps brace for tough days ahead as the Algerian regime reinforces its siege, further restricting movement. Morocco’s Assabah daily reported that Algeria is implementing a new security plan, including fortifications and fences around the camps to prevent Sahraouis from leaving. The plan is being implemented as […]

Algeria continues crackdown in Kabylie, sentences poet Samir Mokrani to two years in prison

The fierce repression carried out by Algeria’s ruling junta against activists in Kabylie was evidenced again this week when militant poet Samir Mokrani was sentenced to two years in prison for his peaceful activism in favor of the autonomy of Kabylie. The conviction of Samir Mokrani, Monday February 6 by the court of Tizi Ouzzou, […]