North Africa Weekly: September 24, 2025

…Hear directly from experts, regional voices, and thought leaders shaping North Africa’s future. Google’s Managing Director for Africa on Digital Transformation Google announced four new African hubs to connect subsea…

AI Race: The Promise and Perils of Techno-Utopians

…of engineered consensus, where politics and consent of the governed disappear alongside human agency. No wonder some in the industry, like Google CEO Sundar Pichai, support integrating social scientists, philosophers,…

What Can UN Peacekeeping Learn from Ukraine’s Drones?

…live footage, using commercial software like Google Meet. Put simply, the commercial market increasingly offers state and non-state actors intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities that were until recently only the…

Top Ten Global Risks for 2024

…of generative AI are exponentially improving a wide range of capabilities as Chat GPT4, Google, Meta, Microsoft, dozens of startups, and China race ahead. In 2024 Open AI will release…