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Women bearing the brunt of Sudan’s acute hunger crisis: UN

Women are bearing the brunt of the humanitarian crisis in Sudan

Democratic US senators demand Apple, Google take X, Grok off app stores over sexual images

Three Democratic United States (US) senators are calling on Apple and Alphabet’s Google to remove X and its built-in artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Grok from their app stores, citing the spread of nonconsensual sexual images of women and minors on the platform.

ICGLR warns Uvira capture deepens humanitarian crisis in eastern DRC

The capture of the border town of Uvira by AFC/M23 rebels has raised fresh alarm within the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR).

Nigeria AFCON bonuses settled: Finance Minister

The Super Eagles reportedly boycotted training on Wednesday over unpaid bonuses.

BRICS Plus navies launch joint maritime exercise in SA waters

Navies from Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (SA), plus Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Ethiopia, Indonesia, and Iran (BRICS Plus) have begun intensive joint maritime operations in SA waters as part of a multilateral naval exercise aimed at strengthening maritime security cooperation.

Musk’s AI bot Grok limits image generation on X to paid users after backlash

Elon Musk’s startup xAI has restricted the image generation function on its Grok chatbot on social media platform X to paid subscribers.