AI for Creators: Google and Idris Elba’s Elba Hope Foundation will give about 100,000 African creators free access to Gemini and other AI tools in Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa and Sierra Leone—aimed at cutting production costs and widening access to modern creative tech. Digital Skills for Police: Sierra Leone’s DSTI, with Sierra Leone Police and Victory Teens Organisation, rolled out ICT training for officers in Freetown, Kenema and Makeni to support police digitisation and improve efficiency and accountability. Regional Road Safety Tech: FRSC and Sierra Leone Road Safety Authority signed a five-year MoU to boost cross-border road safety work, including research, data-driven policy, enforcement and capacity building. ECOWAS Infrastructure: China-aided ECOWAS headquarters in Abuja was commissioned, with Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio praising the project as a platform for stronger regional coordination. Airport Fee Review: Sierra Leone’s Internal Affairs Ministry temporarily suspended the $25 airport security fee at Freetown International Airport while an audit and review of the fee collection system is completed. Digital ID Interoperability: A study says governance—not technology standards—is blocking digital ID systems from working together across countries like Brazil, Nigeria and the Philippines. Health Lab Training: JICA-NMIMR completed an eight-week infectious disease lab skills programme for professionals from Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Togo and Zambia.