This approach is geared towards ensuring the highest privacy-preserving safeguards. Social media services and video-sharing platforms will also be required to perform age verification when a new account is created. For existing accounts, providers must estimate the user’s age based on reasonable proxies, such as account creation dates and credit card details.

Site works are expected to start immediately, while detailed engineering is scheduled for completion by March 2027. The terminal is expected to be commissioned by September 2028, within 24 months of the contract’s effective date.

Uganda has identified more than 58 categories of minerals, including gold, rare earth elements, iron ore, phosphates, graphite, cobalt, copper, lithium, coltan, limestone and marble.

Failures involving agentic AI systems, he said, could disrupt essential services, fracture communications, destabilise critical infrastructure and undermine democratic institutions. Entire populations could lose access to clean water, heating and financial services.

On Indonesia’s plan for 100 gigawatts of solar capacity, Danly cautioned that actual output would be significantly lower and that countries experiencing rapidly rising electricity demand would still require dispatchable baseload power. He said the United States wanted to provide both fuel and technology for that purpose.

Africa Down Under, now in its 24th edition, was established to promote Australia’s interests in Africa’s mining and energy sectors. It has since grown into the largest African-focused mining event held outside the continent.

The project has 22 of its planned 31 wells ready, with some extending more than seven kilometres underground. The wells are at different stages of completion and perforation, while pumping and flowback activities continue.