James French
@JAlbertFrench
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Founder, Governance, AI & Fintech, Africa #AfricaTech 🚴🏽
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Joined August 2008
👨🏿🚀 TC Daily — Is AGOA making a comeback? On Tuesday, the US House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to extend the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), sending a lifeline to sub-Saharan African exporters who had been bracing for a prolonged trade vacuum. The bill,
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On Tuesday, US Reps voted for AGOA renewal, months after the tariff relief programme for Africa expired. Next, the Senate will decide.
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I hoped that we would not meet Congo in the AFCON coz of him :( It is a bit personal. One day, you and I will have the time to recount what happened. My Egyptian grandfather, a journalist who covered it from Congo, is looking down upon us , and I think he is happy that Lumumba
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Data centers, but in space...
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Gcina Mhlope, actor, storyteller and Director at the Market Theatre, Johannesburg, 1987. Photo: Gisele Wulfsohn
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À l’attention de la presse. Le collectif Luy Jot Jotna fera une conférence de presse demain à 15h. Pour une réforme du code de la famille, la reconnaissance du féminicide dans le code pénal et une action concrète de protection et de défense des femmes au Sénégal.
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Food for thought: how much of that increase in remittances would have been invested in the US otherwise? How much lost tax revenue will follow?
Fearing deportation, Hondurans in the US send more cash home than ever before
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We have a moral duty to accelerate biomedical innovation.
Trikafta is one of the most inspiring medical advances in decades. Approved in 2019, the drug at first makes cystic fibrosis patients vomit up mucus for a whole day. But while they lose that day, they gain a lifetime–a healthy, *normal length* lifetime. It's a miracle drug.
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🇺🇸 A phrase is going viral in China right now: “the US kill line” and it isn’t propaganda, it’s a metaphor that finally names a reality Americans have lived with for years. In gaming, a kill line is the point where defence no longer matters. Cross it and one hit ends you.
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When we won AFCON in 1996 we also lost 1 - 0 against Egypt in the group stages.
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𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚: 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝘀𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗨𝗦 𝗹𝗮𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗱 '𝗻𝘂𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗼𝘂𝘀' 𝗱𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝘆 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗸𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗡𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲: https://t.co/eeBPsUxb8F
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Funny how that works
Yeah, the French would be very upset if Nigérien uranium were in the future to “serve the interests of a foreign power.”
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🇬🇦🇺🇸Surprisingly and unexpectedly, Gabon has imposed a total and complete ban on US citizens coming to their nation. This follows the US ban on Gabonese nationals to the US.
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Brings back wonderful memories of hitchhiking there from Abidjan during that period.
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Gamecock player hit by Texas A&M gameday cop files criminal complaint
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There's been a development in the Nyck Harbor-Texas A&M gameday cop confrontation, filed by the other Gamecock player involved.
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That’s tragic. As one of the planet’s most beautiful bike rides, Camps Bay is a cyclist’s dream. I’m sorry for the young man and his family, and hope it remains a safe place to be on a bike.
The Cape Town cycling community is mourning the death of 41-year-old cyclist Idries Sheriff, who was killed after being struck by a vehicle in Camps Bay on Tuesday. https://t.co/vMJI91PKHi
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As LLMs dev costs drop, their ranks will swell. Eventually, they will be evaluated by public trust at least as much as by features and capacity. The first firm who can objectively make that claim will have a sustainable lead in that race.
OpenAI once had a clear edge in the artificial-intelligence race—but now, its primacy is being threatened, @matteo_wong argues:
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"Her death leaves just one surviving witness to the massacre, Lessie Randle, who is also 111, six months younger than Ms. Fletcher." https://t.co/uAOdwbvsMI
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At 7, she bore witness to one of American history’s most violent spasms of racial violence. She was 106 when the nation reckoned with the crime.
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The UVA Faculty Senate has passed a resolution calling on the school to pause its presidential search and called for the Rector and Vice Rector to resign …
Former UVA president Jim Ryan accuses new BOV rector Rachel Sheridan of engineering his ouster. In a letter to the faculty senate, Ryan said Sheridan worked with the DOJ to force him to resign. https://t.co/XAaT6SNQAs
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Former UVA president Jim Ryan accuses new BOV rector Rachel Sheridan of engineering his ouster. In a letter to the faculty senate, Ryan said Sheridan worked with the DOJ to force him to resign. https://t.co/XAaT6SNQAs
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In a letter to the faculty senate, Jim Ryan said Rachel Sheridan - before becoming BOV rector - worked with the DOJ and the Governor's office to force him to resign as UVA's president.
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