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Tunisia: LGBT community leader flees to France over death threats

Former presidential candidate, rights activist and leader of LGBT community in Tunisia has fled the country for France arguing that he had received threats to his life. Mounir Baatour, a candidate at last year presidential elections has told Thomson Reuters Foundation he had received threats and had to flee to France where he was granted […]

Egypt/Russia: the Russian arms deal

On a two-day visit to Moscow, Egyptian army chief Field Marshal Abdel Fattah al-Sisi was on Wednesday accompanied by Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy to seal a lucrative arms deal and discuss areas of cooperation “in multiple fields”. The US$2 billion arms deal will mainly be funded by Saudi Arabia and the UAE. The expected Russian […]

Africa’s AI Powerhouse? — Congo Bets Big on Inga to Fuel the Data Revolution”

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is pitching a bold new role on the global tech stage: powering the future of artificial intelligence (AI). With the rise of energy-hungry AI data centers, the country is promoting its colossal Grand Inga hydroelectric complex as the world’s green solution to computing’s growing power demands. The Inga site […]