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Who Signs the Ghost Citation in Nairobi
East Africa's bar now has case law on who pays when a model hallucinates a citation — the advocate who signed, not the tool. Tanzania suspended a counsel six months for two ghost cases; Kenya's Judiciary policy requires a human-verification certificate on every AI-assisted filing; Nigeria's Bar guidelines leave meaningful review undefined. The professional-indemnity market has yet to price any of it.
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The Newsroom That Named Its Terms
Nation Media Group's March 2026 AI editorial framework is the first in East Africa to put accountability in writing — claiming institutional ownership over every decision the tool makes on the paper's behalf. Whether it does real editorial work depends on one clause: whether the training budget matches the vendor licence. Every peer document on the continent leaves the same chapter unwritten — the annotation labour that built the models the policy now governs.
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