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

…consequences.  It mirrors Aldous Huxley’s dystopian vision in Brave New World, and its core conviction is that technology, especially AI, will deliver “more everything, forever.” Technocracy Reborn Such a world…

An Assessment of the Risk of Mass Atrocities in Uganda

…1, 2018, online edition, https://www.newvision.co.ug/new_vision/news/1488782/12million-ugandan-youth-idle-population-report. 59 David Mayen, “8 Dead after Refugees, Host Community Fight at Uganda’s Rhino Camp,” National Media Group, September 12, 2020, https://nation.africa/kenya/news/africa/8-dead-after-refugees-host-community-fight-at-uganda-s-rhino-camp-1937612. 60 International Crisis Group, “Averting…

A New Bangladesh Confronts Rakhine Crisis

…few key steps could move the Rakhine crisis back from the brink. First, while Bangladesh and its interim government are in the international spotlight, there is an opportunity to ensure…

The Security Agenda for a Changing Middle East

…a new equilibrium yet.  This leads to many uncertainties about security: security for states, for relations between states, and for the newly assertive citizens within states.  In the region and…