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2 months, 4 weeks ago

OpenAI launches effort to invest $1 million of API credits for developers from middle and low-income countries

OpenAI has launched a new effort called OpenAI Academy that will award developers from low and middle-income countries $1 million in API credits. “Many countries have fast-growing technology sectors filled with talented developers and innovative organizations, yet access to advanced training and technical resources is still a significant barrier,” the announcement states. “Investing in the development of local AI talent …

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

Xi Story: A warm greeting in Swahili

China Daily

BEIJING -- Addressing audiences in Tanzania in March 2013, Chinese President Xi Jinping started with the Swahili greeting "Habari," meaning "How are you?" China tightened its belt to help its African brothers build the railway, even during its own period of poverty, Xi recalled during a meeting with visiting Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan in 2022. "Now that China is …

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4 months, 1 week ago

Mann Ki Baat: PM Modi’s Radio Kranti for a Stronger, More Connected India

News 18

Mann Ki Baat’s first episode was aired on October 3, 2014, on the occasion of Vijayadashami. The moot point is, through his Mann Ki Baat radio broadcast, Prime Minister Narendra Modi crafts messages that venture into the nooks and corners of the nation, building bridges between the people and the government, “leaving a splendid trail of impactful leadership examples”, as …

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5 months ago

Medical series begins run on African TV

China Daily

Welcome to Milele is scheduled to air in Kenya and Tanzania in a Swahili-dubbed version. Welcome to Milele, a popular TV series following a Chinese medical team dispatched to work in Africa, began airing on Wednesday in Kenya and Tanzania in a Swahili-dubbed version. The series serves as a tribute commemorating several significant historical milestones, including the 10th anniversary of …

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5 months ago

Medical series begins run on African TV

China Daily

Welcome to Milele is scheduled to air in Kenya and Tanzania in a Swahili-dubbed version. Welcome to Milele, a popular TV series following a Chinese medical team dispatched to work in Africa, began airing on Wednesday in Kenya and Tanzania in a Swahili-dubbed version. The series serves as a tribute commemorating several significant historical milestones, including the 10th anniversary of …

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5 months, 1 week ago

Kenyans combat mangrove logging with hidden beehives

The Hindu

Dressed in protective clothing and armed with a smoker, Peter Nyongesa walked through the mangroves to monitor his beehives along the Indian Ocean coastline. When Nyongesa started beekeeping 25 years ago, he didn’t know anything about the threat to mangroves or how his bees could help. He became involved in 2019, when he joined a local conservation group called Tulinde …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

TV productions captivate Kenyan audiences

China Daily

Guests applaud after the official signing of an agreement to promote collaboration between Kenya and China in the audiovisual sector on Monday. Kenya's Bliss TV, on the other hand, will add the Chinese drama series A Very Close Relation to the many Chinese TV series, documentaries and entertainment programs they offer. Grace Njenga, CEO of Bliss TV in Kenya, said …

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6 months, 1 week ago

A defiant Fani Willis appears to call out her critics in Trump case in speech at Black church

Associated Press

MARIETTA, Ga. — Fani Willis called out her critics in a defiant speech Thursday at a Black church outside Atlanta, not naming names but appearing to refer to Donald Trump and others who have attacked the Georgia prosecutor’s investigation of the former president’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss in the state. “See, I’m so tired of hearing these …

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7 months, 1 week ago

South Sudan government and rebel groups sign ‘commitment’ for peace in ongoing peace talks in Kenya

Associated Press

NAIROBI, Kenya — The government of South Sudan and rebel opposition groups on Thursday signed a “commitment declaration” for peace during high-level mediation talks in Kenya, described as key step in efforts to end the conflict in South Sudan that has long crippled its economy. The rebel opposition groups were not part of the 2018 agreement that ended South Sudan’s …

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9 months, 1 week ago

Kenyan activists on a mission to end gender-based violence as attacks on women surge

LA Times

Njeri Migwi is a women’s rights activist and the co-founder of Usikimye, an organization working to end sexual and gender-based violence. Migwi is on the front lines of a war against a silent epidemic of gender-based violence in Kenya, where almost 60 women have been killed since the beginning of the year, according to the government. Migwi, a survivor of …

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1 year ago

Now Indians can visit Masai Mara Safari without visa as Kenya changes rules

Live Mint

Come January 1, 2024, Kenya will remove visa requirements for international visitors. President William Ruto made this announcement during an event commemorating Kenya’s 60th anniversary of independence from the United Kingdom “It is no longer necessary for anyone from any corner of the globe to bear the burden of applying for a visa to come to Kenya,” Ruto said. Notably, …

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1 year, 1 month ago

King Charles III meets with religious leaders to promote peace on the final day of his Kenya visit

Associated Press

NAIROBI, Kenya — King Charles III met with religious leaders Friday to promote peace and security in Kenya during the last day of his four-day trip. The king spent a rainy Friday morning touring Mandhry Mosque, East Africa’s oldest mosque, before meeting with Christian, Hindu, Muslim and African traditional faith leaders in an Anglican cathedral in Kenya’s coastal city of …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Tanzania identifies China as new strategic tourism market

China Daily

Students from Confucius Institute of Dar es Salaam University perform a lion dance at the opening ceremony of the 7th Swahili International Tourism Expo in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on Oct 6, 2023. Tanzanian authorities announced on Friday that they have identified China, Russia and India as the country's new strategic tourism markets. DAR ES SALAAM - Tanzanian authorities announced …

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1 year, 4 months ago

New season brings classics quoted by Xi to African audiences

China Daily

The second season of Classics Quoted by Xi Jinping, a well-made television documentary series, hit the screens in Africa on Sunday. The program, produced by the China Media Group, compiles the classical allusions that have been quoted by President Xi Jinping in his speeches and articles, and introduces Chinese wisdom in the classics. According to reports by the China Global …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Young Africans are logging in and clocking on

Hindustan Times

His home is Bungoma, a small town in western Kenya, but his workplace is the world. Freelances on online platforms can reach clients around the world, harnessing skills from blogging to web design. In Kenya the government’s Ajira programme runs support centres that aim to link a million Kenyans to online platforms and make the country a “digital hub”. Freelances, …

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1 year, 7 months ago

It is ‘Jan Jan Ki Baat’, says Uttarakhand CM on Mann Ki Baat 100th episode

Hindustan Times

Ahead of the 100th episode of the Prime Minister's monthly radio address 'Mann Ki Baat', Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami said it is called 'Mann Ki Baat' but actually it is 'Jan Jan Ki Baat'. Read here: 100 episodes of Mann Ki Baat: 'A truly special journey,’ tweets PM Modi ahead of broadcast Talking to ANI, Uttarakhand CM said, …

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1 year, 7 months ago

PM Modi's Mann Ki Baat to go global with 100th episode today

The Hindu

The 100th episode of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's monthly radio address Mann Ki Baat will be broadcast today with lakhs of people expected to listen to the popular programme in different parts of the world. "Get ready for a historic moment as the 100th episode of PM Modi's Mann Ki Baat is set to go live on April 30th in …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Some Indian ancestry in the genes of mediaeval Swahili people: new study

The Hindu

A study of centuries-old DNA has deciphered the complex ancestry of coastal East Africa's Swahili people, revealing how a cosmopolitan and prosperous medieval civilization arose thanks in large part to women from Africa and men arriving from Persia. The medieval Swahili people in city-states such as Mombasa and Zanzibar exported goods from the African interior including ivory, gold, ebony and …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Doctor decries gun violence after school shooting near miss

Associated Press

A pediatric surgeon who left The Covenant School in Nashville moments before a shooter opened fire, killing six people, says she is horrified by the gun violence that has plagued the U.S. Britney Grayson had just finished regaling children at the small religious grade school about Kenya, where she works on missions, when she drove out of the parking lot …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Fort Jesus, standing testament to rich past of Kenya

China Daily

A visitor poses for a selfie beside a replica of the Omani Arabs who once occupied Fort Jesus in the fort's museum. Cultural melting pot The fort was designed by Giovanni Battista Cairati, an Italian architect hired by the Portuguese to design forts in its colonial possessions in Africa and Asia, and was the first Italian-style bastion constructed outside of …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Fort Jesus, standing testament to rich past of Kenya

China Daily

Visitors are shown ancient cannons installed in Fort Jesus. Site dated back to early colonial conquest in Africa tells the story of multicultural, interconnected Indian Ocean Built by the Portuguese toward the end of the 16th century on the Kenyan coastline in Mombasa city, Fort Jesus tells the story of early colonial conquest in Africa and how the Portuguese at …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Swahili coast tourism features deep history, bright beaches

China Daily

A tourist walks along the beach next to the Indian Ocean in the resort town of Diani, south of Mombasa, on the coast of Kenya. This cosmopolitan tourist hub stretches for miles, and was the main point of contact between the Swahili people and European, Chinese, Persian, Indian and Arab merchants, explorers, diplomats and conquerors. Among the earliest visitors to …

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1 year, 11 months ago

Swahili coast tourism features deep history, bright beaches

China Daily

Da Gama was a Portuguese explorer who set out to discover a workable route around the South African Cape of Good Hope so that the Portuguese could partake in, and eventually dominate, Asian maritime trade. During his journey, he spent time on the East African coast, waiting for the monsoon winds that would propel him, with the aid of local …

Portuguese History Bright

1 year, 11 months ago

Swahili coast tourism features deep history, bright beaches

China Daily

A tourist walks along the beach next to the Indian Ocean in the resort town of Diani, south of Mombasa, on the coast of Kenya. This cosmopolitan tourist hub stretches for miles, and was the main point of contact between the Swahili people and European, Chinese, Persian, Indian and Arab merchants, explorers, diplomats and conquerors. Among the earliest visitors to …

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OpenAI launches effort to invest $1 million of API credits for developers from middle and low-income countries

Xi Story: A warm greeting in Swahili

Mann Ki Baat: PM Modi’s Radio Kranti for a Stronger, More Connected India

Medical series begins run on African TV

Medical series begins run on African TV

Kenyans combat mangrove logging with hidden beehives

TV productions captivate Kenyan audiences

A defiant Fani Willis appears to call out her critics in Trump case in speech at Black church

South Sudan government and rebel groups sign ‘commitment’ for peace in ongoing peace talks in Kenya

Kenyan activists on a mission to end gender-based violence as attacks on women surge

Now Indians can visit Masai Mara Safari without visa as Kenya changes rules

King Charles III meets with religious leaders to promote peace on the final day of his Kenya visit

Tanzania identifies China as new strategic tourism market

New season brings classics quoted by Xi to African audiences

Young Africans are logging in and clocking on

It is ‘Jan Jan Ki Baat’, says Uttarakhand CM on Mann Ki Baat 100th episode

PM Modi's Mann Ki Baat to go global with 100th episode today

Some Indian ancestry in the genes of mediaeval Swahili people: new study

Doctor decries gun violence after school shooting near miss

Fort Jesus, standing testament to rich past of Kenya

Fort Jesus, standing testament to rich past of Kenya

Swahili coast tourism features deep history, bright beaches

Swahili coast tourism features deep history, bright beaches

Swahili coast tourism features deep history, bright beaches