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Africa News Tonight: Aid Blockades Endanger People in Burkina Faso, AI Creates Election Worries, Namibia Fights Cancer with HPV Vaccine


Africa News Tonight: Aid Blockades Endanger People in Burkina Faso, AI Creates Election Worries, Namibia Fights Cancer with HPV Vaccine
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Aid agencies say half a million people living under blockades in Burkina Faso find themselves without humanitarian assistance because of a lack of funding and severe operational constraints. Fake images on the internet have been a concern for some time, but with Artificial Intelligence making it so much easier to produce fakes, many observers worry how it will affect elections in several African nations this year. A top Namibian health official says the country is set to begin distributing the HPV vaccine to adolescent girls as a preventative measure against cervical cancer.

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