JOHANNESBURG, Nov 22 (Reuters) – The United Arab Emirates said on Saturday it will invest $1 billion to expand AI infrastructure and AI-enabled services across Africa, with the aim of helping countries meet national development priorities.<\/p>\n
UAE Minister of State Saeed Bin Mubarak Al Hajeri announced the “AI for development initiative” at the G20 leaders’ summit<\/a> in Johannesburg, saying it would bring AI technology to areas such as education, healthcare, and climate adaptation.<\/p>\n Sign up here.<\/a><\/p>\n “We consider AI not just as a future industry but a cornerstone of humanity’s future,” he said in a statement.<\/p>\n “Therefore, my country is actively accelerating innovation to enhance productivity and drive significant advancements in the global economy, with a strong commitment to developing responsible and inclusive AI for the benefit of everyone.”<\/p>\n The UAE is one of the biggest investors in Africa. Its bilateral trade in 2024 reached approximately $107 billion, a 28% increase from the previous year, and its total investments in Africa were over $118 billion between 2020 and 2024, the statement said.<\/p>\n Abu Dhabi is investing heavily in AI, with plans to build one of the world’s largest data-centre hubs<\/a> in the country with U.S. technology.<\/p>\n The UAE is not a member of the Group of 20, which brings together the world’s biggest economies, but was invited to the meeting by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, who is hosting the G20 leaders’ summit for the first time in Africa.<\/p>\n Reporting by Nellie Peyton; Editing by Emelia Sithole-Matarise<\/p>\n Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles., opens new tab<\/a><\/p>\n Purchase Licensing Rights<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n Based in Johannesburg, Nellie reports on general, economic and political news across sub-Saharan Africa. She previously spent six years in Dakar covering West and Central Africa. A U.S. national, she studied journalism and international affairs at Sciences Po, Paris. She was the recipient of Amnesty International’s 2021 award for best new journalist for investigating sex abuse by aid workers in DR Congo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JOHANNESBURG, Nov 22 (Reuters) – The United Arab Emirates said on Saturday it will invest $1 billion to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[261],"tags":[1628,82772,291,33335,82793,289,290,2786,82703,82758,82543,82538,82545,83805,82546,82535,82549,82541,82550,82776,93090,82553,82536,83398,82529,88447,83806,82555,82777,82547,82539,82557,82537,82540,82554,82552,108192,82548,82551,3737,18,55396,82578,32356,82503,17244,45748,19,82765,17,82797,84108,82565,82508,102694,82512,84117,82,84119,108191,82707,102693],"class_list":["post-194719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ae","tag-afr","tag-ai","tag-aid","tag-arti","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-asia","tag-asxpac","tag-bisv","tag-destabn","tag-destabx","tag-destafa","tag-destafn","tag-destbnx","tag-destcsa","tag-destdnp","tag-deste","tag-destfun","tag-destg","tag-destgbn","tag-destgns","tag-destlby","tag-destmetop","tag-destoustcm","tag-destozabsm","tag-destozatpm","tag-destpco","tag-destpge","tag-destpsc","tag-destrast","tag-destrbn","tag-destreulb","tag-destrnp","tag-destrws","tag-destrwsa","tag-destsf","tag-destu","tag-destucdptest","tag-dip","tag-eire","tag-emea","tag-emrg","tag-fin","tag-fins","tag-g20","tag-gen","tag-ie","tag-intag","tag-ireland","tag-itec","tag-meast","tag-mtpix","tag-pol","tag-safr","tag-sci","tag-swasia","tag-technology","tag-tglf","tag-topicworld-g20","tag-trd","tag-za"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}