He once criticised African leaders who cling to power. Now he wants a seventh term

Pop star-turned-politician Bobi Wine is the latest Museveni critic to face the wrath of the state. The 43-year-old opposition ...
Dawn

WIDE ANGLE: THE VIDEO JOKERS OF UGANDA

Inside Uganda’s video halls, emcee-cum-translators transform blockbusters from Hollywood, India, Korea, China and elsewhere ...

On the road with the ghetto pop star taking on Uganda’s dictator

In a rare interview, charismatic presidential candidate Bobi Wine explains why he’s risking it all to stand for elections on ...
The ObserverOpinion

Sex Talk: Yes, kwanjula is a wedding too

I occasionally get the odd email from a young Christian asking whether they can now enjoy sex without fornication, having ...

The chatbot will see you now: how AI is being trained to spot mental health issues in any language

Calls to a clinic in Uganda are helping create a therapy algorithm that works in local languages, as specialists look to technology to address the global mental health crisis ...
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IEEE

LoRA-Fine Tuned LLaMA-3 for Low-Resource Multilingual Machine Translation

This paper describes a multilingual machine translation system that uses Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) to finetune Meta’s LLaMA-3 (8B parameters) to translate low- and medium-resource languages. The ...
The Conversation

Zohran Mamdani’s win shows how multilingualism bridges divides in diverse democracies

University of British Columbia provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA. University of British Columbia provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. When Zohran Mamdani ...
Indiatimes

English, Hindi, Arabic… How many languages does Zohran Mamdani speak?

Zohran Mamdani, the newly elected mayor of New York City, captivated voters with his ability to speak multiple languages, including Hindi-Urdu, Bengali, Spanish, Luganda, and Arabic. His international ...
CNN-News18

7 Facts About Zohran Mamdani, New York's First Indian-Origin Mayor | In Pics

Zohran Mamdani was born in Uganda in 1991, and moved to New York at the age of seven. He attended Bronx High School of Science, where he formed a cricket team, and later earned a degree in Africana ...
NPR

A mayor with global roots: Zohran Mamdani's rise resonates far beyond New York

Uganda-born son of Indian immigrants turned NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani is drawing global attention — especially from progressives eyeing his playbook. Zohran Mamdani's rise to New York City mayor is ...
PBS

In Uganda, NYC mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani is remembered with pride

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — In the Ugandan newsroom where he appeared one day as an intern, Zohran Mamdani looked shy and unassuming. His father had arranged for him to spend time at the Daily Monitor ...