Consider a traveler using ChatGPT to find safari lodges near Maasai Mara, a procurement team asking Perplexity for consultants serving West African markets, or a buyer comparing developers in Greater Accra through Google’s AI features. The question is whether an assistant identifies the right business and describes it accurately. That matters to companies operating in African markets, international brands serving those markets, and businesses whose customers research them from abroad. AI answers may draw on model knowledge, live searches, business websites, directories, reviews, and other third-party pages. The mix varies by product and question. If those sources are sparse, outdated,…
Author: Oki Bin Oki
Alex Mwangi will be hoping to make it two wins in a row in the Kenya Amateur Golf Championship (KAGC) Series victory this weekend when he takes to the course for the NCBA Nanyuki Open at the Nanyuki Sports Club from Friday 25 to Sunday 27. The Windsor Golf Hotel & Country Club player picked his maiden win in the series last weekend during the NCBA Diani Beach Masters at Diamond Leisure Beach & Golf Resort, carding 2-over-par 218, with rounds of 76, 71 and 71 to finish three shots ahead of Eugene Wafula, who placed second on 5-over-par 221.…
Film shoots in Africa can offer visuals that would be hard to recreate in any other place. In Africa, one finds everything from modern cities and coastal locations to desert landscapes, mountainous areas, forests, open savannahs, ancient locations, and rural surroundings. For foreign filmmakers, the above diversity is a very big advantage. However, there is a different reality when it comes to filming in such locations. Location shots may look great artistically, but it is what happens outside the shot that determines whether the shoot will be a success or not. Issues such as access, permits, local crews, production equipment,…
The African continent has the unique offering of something that cannot be found elsewhere, and that is scale, contrast, and variety of natural environments. Whether it is the open savannahs and volcanic environments, forests, deserts, mountain ranges, road trips along the coast, and growing metropolises, the continent provides a wide array of visual options for directors. What has changed is the amount of global interest in these environments. Directors are now exploring places other than their production hubs when looking for a location that will lend itself well visually to their project. It is no longer just about having a…
President Donald Trump has invited his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to attend the G20 summit of world leaders in Miami in December, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Wednesday. The move comes as Washington struggles to secure a deal to end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with Trump insisting that he is working with both sides to stop the war. “In order to solve problems, you have to meet with the people that you disagree with or the people that you might have some issues with,” Rubio told reporters in New York on Wednesday. “So we’ve invited President Putin to…
Iranian airlines were forced to cancel some international flights on Wednesday after the US tightened sanctions on Iran’s aviation industry in a new effort to cripple its economy. Georgia and Azerbaijan have officially confirmed suspending flights, and a travel agent in Tehran told AFP that flights to Baghdad, Muscat and Qatar were also halted, though routes to other destinations remained available, including China. US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced the new measures on Monday as part of an earlier threat to impose “economic D-Day” on Iran, an attempt to force it into submission following nearly seven months of war. But…
Germany on Wednesday announced measures to crack down on social welfare abuse involving citizens of poorer EU countries such as Bulgaria and Romania. The issue of such welfare fraud is particularly sensitive in Germany’s most populous state North Rhine-Westphalia, which will elect a new state assembly in April. As in several other recent state elections, the far-right Alternative for Germany is expected to improve its showing, although Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s centre-right CDU still leads the polls there. “Abuse of free movement of people (within the EU) is not acceptable” Leonie Gebers, a state secretary in the labour ministry, told reporters,…
The government is intensifying implementation of El Nino response measures in Nairobi in collaboration with the county to ensure the Capital City is adequately prepared for the coming heavy rains. Deputy President Kithure Kindiki said Nairobi is expected to be one of the areas to receive El Nino rains in October going forward, outlining interventions being rolled out to avert loss of lives and property damages. “From the projections by the weather people, it is likely that the precipitation in Nairobi will be high. That is expected in the second and the third week of October when the rain will…
Three US media outlets have requested an emergency court hearing, accusing the White House of having “repeatedly violated” a judge’s order to restore their access in a stand-off with President Donald Trump. Employees from CNN, Politico and MS Now reported being denied entry on Thursday morning, with some having their credentials confiscated, while others were granted access. Judge Timothy Kelly ruled in the early hours of Thursday that Trump’s ban on the outlets should be temporarily lifted because it “likely violated their constitutional due process rights”. Trump initially said he banned the outlets because of “fake news”. The White House…
Detectives arrested Noah Kipkirui Langat, a boda boda rider suspected of conducting surveillance on lawyer Mathew Kyalo Mbobu before he was fatally shot on Magadi Road on September 9, 2025. Langat’s arrest follows those of constable Julius Cheruiyot, suspected of being the gunman, and Nicholas Lemiso Naula, the boda boda rider suspected of ferrying him to and from the scene. With three suspects now in custody, detectives are intensifying the hunt for other persons suspected to have played a role in the meticulously planned killing. Langat was traced to Pangani police cells on Thursday evening where he had been detained…
Award-winning singer-songwriter Michael Kiwanuka has revealed he has suffered a stroke and faces a “long, tough journey ahead” to recover. The 39-year-old from London, who won the Mercury Prize in 2020 and has been nominated for five Brit Awards, said in an Instagram post that the stroke occurred “a few months ago” and was caused “by a bleed in my brain brought on by high blood pressure”. He added that “the brain injury I suffered was quite severe so there’s a lot of rehab to be done”, but told fans he will “look forward to seeing you all soon”. Kiwanuka…
President Masoud Pezeshkian has said Iran will never “bend the knee” after almost seven months of war with the US and Israel, but is ready for a diplomatic solution to the conflict. Responding to US President Donald Trump’s threat to “annihilate” the Islamic Republic if a deal is not reached soon, he told the UN General Assembly: “The resistance of the Iranian people will only increase in the face of sanctions, increased pressure, increased bullying.” Pezeshkian also insisted any deal would have to include an end to the US blockade stopping Iranian ships from using a key Gulf waterway. “It…
Disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein has been sentenced to 15 years in prison, after a jury found him guilty last year of committing a criminal sexual act against a former assistant. In a victim impact statement in court, Miriam Haley said the assault had had a “devastating effect on my life and sense of security that may never go away”. Appearing in court in a wheelchair, Weinstein denied the allegations but apologised to “anyone I may have hurt by my actions”. Weinstein has already spent six years in prison while he has faced three trials in New York over rape…
The usual way to compare LLM API providers is to line up model prices and pick the lowest row. That method is exactly backwards: it compares models, not providers, and the two are different units of comparison. A provider is not its cheapest model; it is the layer around every model it serves — the markup on your tokens, the provenance of the rates it quotes, and the billing structure you live under — and that layer is what actually decides your bill. OrcaRouter makes its own layer fully inspectable, which is the requirement a serious cheapest llm api provider…
The low end of freelance video editing is easy to recognise. A client sends product photographs and a paragraph of copy, then asks for a 15-second social clip by tomorrow. The rate is thin, revisions are unpaid and other freelancers are bidding from several countries. That brief is under pressure. A client with an AI video generator may no longer hire someone to assemble stock footage or add basic movement to product images. The first result may be poor, but the cheapest part of the old job has become self-service. For Kenyan freelancers selling into dollar markets, the result depends…