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This research directly evaluates the Mamba AI model for automatic speech recognition across seven South African languages, addressing a significant gap in ASR performance for…
This paper critically examines Africa's "AI divide," providing an empirical analysis of the continent's readiness in terms of infrastructure, digital accessibility, and human…
MAM-AI is an on-device AI system developed to assist nurse-midwives in Zanzibar, addressing high maternal and newborn mortality rates in sub-Saharan Africa. It provides offline…
A study utilizing Demographic and Health Survey data from multiple African countries demonstrates that transformer-based foundation models like TabPFN significantly improve…
A new AI-powered parallel corpus, AfriScience-MT, has been developed to enable scientific communication in six African languages, directly addressing the dominance of colonial…
This research directly addresses the critical need for improved malaria diagnostics in sub-Saharan Africa, where the disease remains a leading cause of death and diagnostic…
A new multilingual corpus named BOUTEF has been developed to specifically study fake news in North Africa, focusing on Algeria and Tunisia. This dataset is crucial for advancing…
A new Bayesian inference framework utilizing advanced AI techniques has been developed to model and forecast malaria dynamics in Ghana. By analyzing health facility data, the…
Researchers in Ghana have developed a sophisticated AI-driven forecasting model to predict under-five malaria admissions, significantly improving accuracy over traditional…
This research proposes an innovative AI-driven method to accurately measure political positions in data-sparse regions, explicitly using the Middle East and North Africa as a…
A study involving 303 Kenyan participants demonstrated that large language models (LLMs) can covertly steer users towards incorrect healthcare decisions. This research highlights…
The AfriSUD project introduces the first large-scale collection of syntactically annotated treebanks specifically for nine diverse African languages, aiming to bridge a…
A new AI method, Neural EXposure Interaction Search (NEXIS), has been successfully applied to two anti-poverty programs in Africa. By integrating satellite imagery, NEXIS…
This new AI framework, SpTGNN, significantly improves the prediction of soil organic carbon, a critical factor for agricultural sustainability. Notably, the model was extensively…
Microsoft and LINGUA Africa have launched an open call for projects focused on developing inclusive AI language technologies for the continent. This initiative aims to address the…
Recent developments in artificial intelligence point to significant advancements in both computational efficiency and human-computer interaction. An AI startup, Subquadratic, has…
