RSF siege of El Fasher in Sudan has 'hallmarks of genocide', UN mission findsReport details harrowing 18-month occupation of North Darfur capital, showing destruction aimed at ethnic communitiesThe siege and capture of the Sudanese city of El Fasher by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces group last October bore "the hallmarks of genocide", a UN-mandated fact-finding mission has said.In a report detailing the harrowing 18-month occupation of the capital of North Darfur, investigators concluded that the RSF and allied militias deliberately inflicted conditions calculated to bring about the physical destruction of the Zaghawa and Fur ethnic communities. Continue reading...
More than 1,000 Kenyans lured to fight for Russia in Ukraine war, report saysIntelligence findings read to parliament say 'rogue' agencies and individuals recruiting Kenyan nationals to frontlineMore than 1,000 Kenyans have been lured to fight for Russia in its war with Ukraine, according to an intelligence report to the Kenyan parliament that highlights the scale of a Russian operation taking African men to the frontline.The majority leader of Kenya's national assembly, Kimani Ichung'wah, said "rogue recruitment agencies and individuals in Kenya" were continuing to send Kenyan nationals to fight in the conflict, as he read MPs the summary of an investigation by Kenya's National Intelligence Service. Continue reading...
Countries that do not embrace AI could be left behind, says OpenAI's George OsborneWithout AI you will be a 'weaker and poorer nation', says former UK chancellor two months into job at US firmThe former chancellor George Osborne has said countries that do not embrace the kind of powerful AI systems made by his new employer, OpenAI, risk "Fomo" and could be left weaker and poorer.Osborne, who is two months into a job as head of the $500bn San Francisco AI company's "for countries" programme, told leaders gathered for the AI Impact summit in Delhi: "Don't be left behind." He said that without AI rollouts they could end up with a workforce "less willing to stay put" because they might want to seek AI-enabled fortunes elsewhere. Continue reading...
Kenyan authorities used Israeli tech to crack activist's phone, report claimsCitizen Lab report suggests Cellebrite software was used to break into Boniface Mwangi's phone while he was under arrestWhen Boniface Mwangi, the prominent Kenyan pro-democracy activist who plans to run for president in 2027, had his phones returned to him by Kenyan authorities after his controversial arrest last July, he immediately noticed a problem: one of the phones was no longer password protected and could be opened without one.It was Mwangi's personal phone, which he used to communicate with friends and mentors, and contained photos of private family moments with his wife and children. Knowing that its contents could be in the hands of the Kenyan government made Mwangi - who has described harassment and even torture - feel unsafe and "exposed", he told the Guardian. Continue reading...
How an undercover cop foiled an IS plot to massacre Britain's Jews - podcastThe Guardian's community affairs correspondent, Chris Osuh, reports on the plot by two IS terrorists to massacre Jews in Manchester, and how it was thwarted by an undercover stingWalid Saadaoui had once worked as a holiday entertainer, organising dance shows and quizzes at a resort in his native Tunisia. After moving to the UK and marrying a British woman, he became a restaurateur and an avid keeper of birds.All the while, however - as the Guardian's community affairs correspondent, Chris Osuh, explains - he was hiding a secret: he had pledged allegiance to Islamic State. Continue reading...
Floreana giant tortoise reintroduced to Galápagos island after almost 200 yearsSubspecies driven to extinction by hungry whalers returns after 'back breeding' programme using partial descendantsGiant tortoises, the life-giving engineers of remote small island ecosystems, are plodding over the Galápagos island of Floreana for the first time in more than 180 years.The Floreana giant tortoise ( Chelonoidis niger niger), a subspecies of the giant tortoise once found across the Galápagos, was driven to extinction in the 1840s by whalers who removed thousands from the volcanic island to provide a living larder during their hunting voyages. Continue reading...
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