{"id":236785,"date":"2026-06-25T01:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/25\/cybersecurity-in-the-age-of-ai-africas-strategic-moment-2\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T01:01:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T05:01:00","slug":"cybersecurity-in-the-age-of-ai-africas-strategic-moment-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/25\/cybersecurity-in-the-age-of-ai-africas-strategic-moment-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Cybersecurity in the age of AI: Africa\u2019s strategic moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uneca.org\/stories\/cybersecurity-in-the-age-of-ai-africa%E2%80%99s-strategic-moment\">Cybersecurity in the age of AI: Africa\u2019s strategic moment<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uneca.org\/stories\/cybersecurity-in-the-age-of-ai-africa%E2%80%99s-strategic-moment\">https:\/\/www.uneca.org\/stories\/cybersecurity-in-the-age-of-ai-africa%E2%80%99s-strategic-moment<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-25 01:01:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.uneca.org\">www.uneca.org<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Inauguration of Conference:<\/strong> The International Conference on Cybersecurity in the Era of Digital Transformation and Artificial Intelligence commenced in Addis Ababa, hosted by the United Nations Conference Centre.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Joint Organization:<\/strong> The conference is jointly organized by the Ethiopian Cybersecurity Association (ECySA) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Theme of Conference:<\/strong> The theme of the two-day event is &#8220;Risks, Resilience and Africa&#8217;s Strategic Imperatives,&#8221; focusing on cybersecurity and AI.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Importance of Cybersecurity:<\/strong> Opening remarks highlighted the role of artificial intelligence in shaping institutions and decision-making, emphasizing the importance of cybersecurity.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ethiopia&#8217;s Progress:<\/strong> Mrs. Tigist Hamid outlined Ethiopia&#8217;s significant achievements in cybersecurity legislation over the past eight years under Prime Minister Dr. Abiy Ahmed.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Visions for Africa&#8217;s Future:<\/strong> Mr. Tsegaye Emmanuel Mekael discussed how secure digital transformation is key to Africa\u2019s leadership in FinTech and innovation, emphasizing cybersecurity as a pillar for regional integration.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sustained Dialogue:<\/strong> The event aims to initiate a recurring pan-African forum on cybersecurity, hosted by ECA in Addis Ababa.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Conference Continuation:<\/strong> Sessions on critical infrastructure protection, AI tools, capacity building, and regional cooperation frameworks are planned for the second day of the conference.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cybersecurity in the age of AI: Africa\u2019s strategic moment https:\/\/www.uneca.org\/stories\/cybersecurity-in-the-age-of-ai-africa%E2%80%99s-strategic-moment Publish Date: 2026-06-25 01:01:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-236785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236785"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}