Four executives from the Barrick Gold Corporation have been detained in Mali, the Canadian mining company has confirmed, adding that all these employees of its Loulo-Gounkoto mining complex had been charged and detained pending trial. The arrests come as the Sahel country’s military regime intensifies efforts to impose additional taxes on foreign mining companies by […]
With the first summit on global Artificial Intelligence (AI) regulation due in the autumn, experts and stakeholders call for African voices to be represented in forming the new rules – digital inequalities must not be exacerbated by Artificial Intelligence. The United Kingdom will host a global summit on safety in artificial intelligence in the autumn, […]
Morocco is firmly determined combat torture in all its forms and is strongly committed to the Convention against Torture Initiative (CTI), said on Monday in Geneva Moroccan minister for Human Rights Mustapha Ramid. Speaking at a meeting held on the sidelines of the 43rd session the UN Human Rights Council, the minister said the country’s […]
