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Brace yourselves for BLOOD RAIN: An intense Saharan dust plume is sweeping across the UK - leaving rusty orange smears on cars, windows and garden furniture

Daily Mail - Science & tech

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'At 2am, it feels like someone's there': why Nigerians are choosing chatbots to give them advice and therapy

The Guardian

AI platforms offering first-line mental health support have proliferated in Nigeria, where health services are sparse and underfunded. AI platforms offering first-line mental health support have proliferated in Nigeria, where health services are sparse and underfunded. 'At 2am, it feels like someone's there': why Nigerians are choosing chatbots to give them advice and therapy O n a quiet evening in her Abuja hotel, Joy Adeboye, 23, sits on her bed clutching her phone, her mind racing and chest tightening. On her screen is yet another abusive message from her stalker - a man she had met nine months earlier at her church. He had asked Adeboye out; when she declined, he began sending her intimidating, insulting and blackmailing messages on social media, as well as spreading false information about her online.


Are drones, AI making it harder to fight armed groups in the Sahel?

Al Jazeera

Are drones, AI making it harder to fight armed groups in the Sahel? The brazen attack on the international airport and nearby military airbase in Niamey, Niger's capital, came overnight between January 28 and 29. Balls of orange fire flew across the sky as the Nigerien army attempted to respond while residents ducked for cover and whispered prayers, as shown in videos on social media. ISIL (ISIS) in Sahel Province, or ISSP - a Niger-based outfit earlier known as the ISIL affiliate in the Greater Sahara or ISGS - has since claimed responsibility and says it killed several soldiers, although the Nigerien army disputes this. Many of its fighters had breached military drone hangars using RPGs and mortars, and managed to damage several aircraft and one civilian aeroplane, according to videos from the group.


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Three West African juntas have turned to Russia. Now the US wants to engage them

BBC News

Three West African juntas have turned to Russia. The US has declared a stark policy shift towards three West African countries which are battling Islamist insurgents and whose military governments have broken defence ties with France and turned towards Russia. The state department announced that Nick Checker, head of its Bureau of African Affairs, would visit Mali's capital Bamako to convey the United States' respect for Mali's sovereignty and chart a new course in relations, moving past policy missteps. It adds that the US also looks forward to co-operating with Mali's allies, neighbouring Burkina Faso and Niger, on shared security and economic interests. Absent from the agenda is the longstanding American concern for democracy and human rights.