China’s AI Expansion adds to existing Employment Crisis

China’s history of embedding surveillance capabilities in exported technology raises legitimate concerns about DeepSeek’s true purpose as a potential data collection tool for Chinese intelligence services.

China’s eagerness to adopt artificial intelligence comes just as economic growth is slowing, putting millions of routine jobs at risk. ...

Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, waves to journalists at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Oct. 23, 2022. Chinese economy continues to remain in distress

Chinese economy continues to remain in distress

by UG STANDARD EDITOR | UG STANDARD EDITORIAL

08/02/2024

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Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, waves to journalists at the Great Hall of the People in ...

NAM Summit and the opportunity to rebuke Western imperialism

by KUNGU AL-MAHADI ADAM | JOURNALIST

16/01/2024

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Adam Kungu is a Ugandan Journalist with a passion for current African affairs (PHOTO/Courtesy). At the Non-Aligned Movement Summit (NAM), ...

Tanzania President Samia Suluhu Hassan. Drew Angerer/Getty Images

Tanzania requests World Bank, IMF to introduce Kiswahili as working language

16/10/2023

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Tanzania President Samia Suluhu Hassan. Drew Angerer/Getty Images Tanzania has requested the World Bank Group (WBG) and the International Monetary ...

The IMF Board said it granted a waiver of non-observance of a performance criterion on the ceiling on net credit to the government from the Bank of Uganda (BoU).

IMF approves $120m loan to Uganda despite not fulfilling all conditions

by OUR REPORTER | UG STANDARD

26/06/2023

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The IMF Board said it granted a waiver of non-observance of a performance criterion on the ceiling on net credit ...

African Development Bank’s Acting Chief Economist/Vice President Kevin Urama (L), Cathy Pattillo, Deputy Director of IMF’s African Department, and James Roaf, IMF’s Assistant Director Fiscal Affairs and Climate Change Policy Coordinator at a presentation of the African Economic Outlook at the IMF’s headquarters in Washington D.C

African Economic Outlook 2022: AfDB, IMF experts underscore urgency of climate financing for Africa

by JAVIRA SSEBWAMI | PUBLIC EDITOR

27/07/2022

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African Development Bank’s Acting Chief Economist/Vice President Kevin Urama (L), Cathy Pattillo, Deputy Director of IMF’s African Department, and James ...

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