Lorna Hardie, regional director for Africa at Check Point Software Technologies.
EXCLUSIVE: A SHOCKING new report reveals that Africa is being deliberately SACRIFICED as a testing ground for ROGUE AI, with governments utterly powerless to stop the coming digital apocalypse. As the continent faces cyber attacks 60% HIGHER than the global average, corporate greed is unleashing autonomous AI agents WITHOUT oversight, creating a “governance gap” that experts warn is a ticking time bomb for global security.
This isn’t just hacking—it’s a SYSTEMIC COLLAPSE. Criminals are now deploying AI-generated deepfakes and cloned voices to drain billions from mobile users, while “data-pressure” attacks threaten to CRIPPLE Africa’s critical energy infrastructure by manipulating the very datasets that keep the lights on. The report exposes a horrifying truth: the digital revolution is a TROJAN HORSE, and Africa is on the front line of a war it didn’t start.
Worse yet, a crippling skills shortage of over 200,000 experts means the continent is DEFENSELESS, forced to rely on foreign corporations for its digital survival. Your identity, your money, and your nation’s stability are now at the mercy of UNCONTROLLABLE algorithms and profit-driven tech giants who have moved faster than any law. Boardrooms are now treating cyber risk scores as more important than human lives, prioritizing credit ratings over catastrophic, real-world disaster.
We are witnessing the orchestrated dismantling of digital sovereignty, where prevention is an afterthought and the population are unwitting lab rats in a planet-scale experiment. The question is no longer if a major AI-triggered catastrophe will occur, but how many millions will suffer when it does.



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