MTN CEO Ralph Mupita warned that Africa risks a “digital underclass” if it fails to harness AI for inclusive growth. • He called for urgent action on energy, digital infrastructure, local AI models, ...

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The mystery of the now-ruined Mesoamerican city of Teotihuacan may rest in a lost language scholars said they’ve deciphered. The ruins near Mexico City include murals that scholars believe represent ...

Vows of silence and humanist beliefs led European clerics to create new communication methods for the deaf 500 years ago. Charles-Michel de L'Épée teaching the hearing impaired in his Paris institute.

From the very beginning of the genocidal war on Tigray in November 2020, the international community adopted the language of Abiy Ahmed's regime and its allies. This language was deliberately ...

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Addis Abeba — Ethiopia's economic reforms have yet to convince foreign investors, according to the 2025 Ethiopia Investment Climate Statement released over the weekend by the U.S. Department of State.

For a language to be considered safe from extinction, 100,000 people need to speak it. A small fraction of people speak ‘ōlelo today, but young Hawaiians using TikTok and Instagram may help change ...

The out-of-office responses from the accounts of employees on furlough cast blame for the shutdown on Democrats. By Eileen Sullivan and Michael C. Bender Reporting from Washington Some furloughed ...

It's four o'clock in the afternoon in the river town of Menindee, east of Broken Hill, and most children have finished school for the day. But at the central school, one class is still going. The ...

SINGAPORE – The Straits Times has updated the language it uses to describe disability, in an effort to portray persons with disabilities more sensitively and accurately. This comes after a review of ...