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Across sub-Saharan Africa, artificial intelligence tools are being used to silence, shame, and threaten women in public life. Governments in the region have laws on the books, but almost none of them were built for this moment. The question is no longer whether AI can harm women. It already is. The question is whether African digital governance is serious enough to stop it.

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In 2017, Canada introduced its Feminist International Assistance Policy (FIAP). It promised that by 2022, at least 95% of Canada’s international assistance spending would go toward women’s empowerment, and half of these funds would be allocated to Sub-Saharan Africa. Nine years later, the FIAP quietly died without fanfare or public announcement.

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Across sub-Saharan Africa, artificial intelligence tools are being used to silence, shame, and threaten women in public life. Governments in the region have laws on the books, but almost none of them were built for this moment. The question is no longer whether AI can harm women. It already is. The question is whether African

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Blog - When AI Becomes a Weapon: What African Governments Must Do to Protect Women Online

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Blog: The FIAP is Gone. What Comes Next?

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