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Victims of recent floods in Spin Boldak district of Kandahar province state that although they have lost their residential or commercial properties, they have not received help yet.These flood victims have asked the federal government, and national and international help companies to assist them restore their houses.Based on information provided by regional officials in this province, ...
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Pakistan has actually scrapped its decision to increase custom-mades tasks on fruit from Afghanistan, the Afghan Embassy in Islamabad said on Friday.Hundreds of trucks and containers loaded with fresh and dry fruits went back to Kabul from Torkham crossing after Pakistan imposed additional regulative responsibility on the imported foodstuff.According to reports, the ...
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Voice-operated smartphones are aiming at a large yet widely neglected market in sub-Saharan Africa —-- the tens of millions of individuals who deal with huge obstacles in life because they can not check out or write, AFP reported.In Ivory Coast, a so-called && Superphone & using a singing assistant that responds to commands in a local language is...Voice-operated smartphones are aiming at a large yet commonly ignored market in sub-Saharan Africa —-- the 10s of millions of individuals who deal with big difficulties in life because they can not read or compose, AFP reported.In Ivory Coast, a so-called && Superphone & using a singing assistant that responds to commands in a regional language is being pitched to the big sector of the population —-- as numerous as 40 percent —-- who are illiterate.Developed and put together locally, the phone is designed to make daily jobs more available, from understanding a document and examining a bank balance to communicating with government firms.&& I & ve just bought this phone for my parents back house in the village, who put on&& t understand how to read or write,& & said Floride Jogbe, a young woman who was impressed by adverts on social media.She believed the 60,000 CFA francs ($92) she handed over was cash well spent.The mobile phone utilizes an os called && Kone & that is distinct to the Cerco company, and covers 17 languages spoken in Ivory Coast, consisting of Baoule, Bete, and Dioula, along with 50 other African languages, AFP reported.Cerco intends to expand this to 1,000 languages, reaching half of the continent&& s population, thanks to help from a network of 3,000 volunteers.The goal is to resolve the && disappointment & illiterate people feel with innovation that needs them to be able to check out or compose or spell successfully, said Cerco president Alain Capo-Chichi, a Benin national.&& Various organizations set down the top priority of making individuals literate prior to making innovation readily available to them,& & he informed AFP. & Our method avoids reading and writing and goes directly to incorporating individuals into economic and social life.&& Of the 750 million grownups around the world who can not read or write, 27 percent live south of the Sahara, according to UN figures for 2016, the current year for which data is available.The continent also hosts nearly 2,000 languages, a few of which are spoken by tens of countless people and are utilized for inter-ethnic communication, while others are dialects with a little geographical spread.Lack of numbers or economic influence typically implies these languages are neglected by developers who have already devised vocal assistants for languages in larger markets.Other companies investing in the voice-operation field in Africa consist of Mobobi, which has actually created a Twi language voice assistant in Ghana called Abena AI, while Mozilla is working on an assistant in Kiswahili, which has an estimated 100 million speakers in East Africa.Telecommunications professional Jean-Marie Akepo questioned whether voice operation required the platform of a devoted mobile phone.Existing innovation && manages to satisfy people&& , he stated. & With the voice message services offered by WhatsApp, for instance, a big part of the issue has actually already been resolved.&& Instead of a new phone, he suggested && software application with local languages that might be set up on any mobile phone&& . The post Voice-operated smartphones to target Africa&& s illiterate customer first appeared on Ariana News.
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New york city&& s governor, Kathy Hochul, declared a disaster emergency situation on Friday and stated the state was stepping up its polio-fighting efforts after the infection was detected in the wastewater of yet another county in the New York City area.Health officials started looking for signs of the infection in sewage water after the first case of polio in the US ...
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King Charles will officially be proclaimed as Britain&s new monarch on Saturday in a ceremony followed by gun salutes and the reading of proclamations in London and across the four corners of the United Kingdom.

The death of 96-year-old Queen Elizabeth on Thursday after 70 years on the throne set in train long-established and highly...

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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for &massive& international aid for flood-hit Pakistan while visiting the country on Friday, as Islamabad put the cost of flood-related damage at $30 billion.

Record monsoon rains and glacier melt in northern mountains have triggered floods that have swept away houses, roads, railway tracks,...

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