How Algorithms Can Reinforce and Amplify Society's Prejudices
By Marion Bordier November 9, 2026 Credit: Pexels African-American English being disproportionately associated with negative stereotypes, facial recognition systems making more errors when identifying people of colour, and AI assistants offering safety advice simply because you mention being with an Algerian or Lebanese person: these examples raise a troubling question. Can artificial intelligence reproduce racial prejudice while presenting itself as neutral? Speaking to Belg
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Millions Fleeing Sudan's War Risk Losing Shelter
By AI Jazeera Staff and Reuters November 6, 2026 Fewer than 1 million of the 15.4 million people in need emergency shelter in Sudan have received assistance. Credit: El Tayeb Siddig Millions of people in Sudan who have been displaced by the country’s civil war risk being left without emergency shelter due to funding shortages and depleting aid stocks, according to the United Nations refugee agency and the International Organization for Migration. An estimated 15.4 million p
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Drone strike kills 12 civilians collecting grain in Ethiopia’s Tigray region
Andrew Wasike Anadolu Agency (Anadolu Ajansı) October 31, 2026 NAIROBI, Kenya At least 12 civilians were killed and several others injured in a drone strike in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region Friday while collecting grain spilled from a truck damaged in an earlier attack, local authorities and hospital sources confirmed Saturday. The attack took place in the town of Rama, where residents had gathered to collect sorghum scattered across the road after a privately owned truck
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UN: More than 86,000 Afghans held in Pakistan this year
Siyar Sirat October 24, 2026 More than 86,000 Afghan nationals have been arrested or detained in Pakistan so far this year, while more than 812,000 have returned to Afghanistan, according to new figures from the UN refugee and migration agencies. Credit: IOM A joint update by UNHCR and the International Organization for Migration shows that 86,644 Afghans were arrested or detained across Pakistan between Jan. 1 and Oct. 17. Of those, 82,526 were Afghan Citizen Card holders or
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Pakistani drone strikes kill three civilians in Balochistan
ANI October 21, 2026 Credit: Reuters Balochistan [Pakistan], October 21 (ANI): Three civilians were reportedly killed and two others critically injured in separate drone strikes in Balochistan's Ziarat and Kech districts, according to local sources, as reported by The Balochistan Post. According to The Balochistan Post, the first incident occurred in the Anzargi area of Ziarat, where a drone strike killed a shepherd and left two other people seriously wounded. Residents said
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Pakistan: Rights Lawyers Receive 10-Year Sentences
Human Rights Watch October 30, 2026 Caption: Aamir Qureshi/AFP (New York) – An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan imposed 10-year prison sentences on two human rights lawyers on October 29, 2026, in an escalation of the government’s crackdown on civil society, Human Rights Watch said today. Pakistani authorities should immediately quash the convictions, release Imaan Mazari-Hazir and her husband Hadi Ali Chattha, and cease criminal proceedings aimed at punishing human rights ad
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