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IMF says Africa has to keep lights on before it can bet on AI

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Meanwhile, governments from Rwanda to Nigeria are publishing national strategies that promise to turn artificial intelligence (AI) into a new engine of economic growth. There is just one problem: about half of sub-Saharan Africa still lacks reliable electricity.

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