Can Geordin Hill-Lewis broaden the appeal of South Africa's Democratic Alliance?Can this man broaden the appeal of a South African party seen by some as 'too white'?1 hour agoKhanyisile NgcoboJohannesburgGallo via Getty ImagesGeordin Hill-Lewis was the widely favoured candidate ahead of Sunday's leadership electionThe new leader of South Africa's second-largest party has to solve a problem that...

Why countries like Ghana, Benin and Guinea are courting African American starsFrom Hollywood to the homeland: Why African countries are courting black American starsGetty ImagesHollywood icon Samuel L Jackson is a citizen of Gabon, while Grammy-winning singer Ciara was granted citizenship of BeninAlthough their forefathers were seized from West and Central Africa centuries ago, the bond between...

Top Tanzanian musician Matonya charged with rape in KenyaJambomailMatonya, who has denied the charge, has a string of "bongo flava" hits and performs across East AfricaTanzanian musician Sefu Shabani, popularly known as Matonya, has been arrested and charged with rape in Kenya.The 43-year-old denied the charge when he appeared in court in the coastal city of Mombasa, Kenya's Director of Public...

Guide Labs debuts a new kind of interpretable LLM The challenge of wrangling a deep learning model is often understanding why it does what it does: Whether it’s xAI’s repeated struggle sessions to fine-tune Grok’s odd politics, ChatGPT’s struggles with sycophancy, or run-of-the-mill hallucinations, plumbing through a neural network with billions of parameters isn’t easy. Guide Labs, a San...

Airstrikes may have destroyed Iran's last F-14s, ending a long, strange saga The final catapult launch of the F-14 Tomcat fighter aircraft aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt on July 28, 2006. The U.S. military retired the plane that year....