AI-made myths meet hard power. Burkina Faso’s “information sovereignty” drive fuses viral deepfakes with real-world crackdowns—rewiring risks, loyalties, and law.

UNESCO has unveiled the “AI Initiative for Africa,” a roadmap to speed safe, useful AI across the continent. The plan targets civil-service skills, judicial literacy, education pipelines, and policy design—via a new assistance facility, regional training networks, and sector playbooks to turn ethics principles into real-world delivery.