Egypt suspends telecom ad deemed offensive to Africans

Egypt suspended a telecom company TV ad after it described it as “harmful” for the country’s relations with African states. (Photo: Screengrab)
Updated 25 March 2018
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Egypt suspends telecom ad deemed offensive to Africans

CAIRO: Egypt’s top media regulatory council decided to suspend a telecom company TV ad after it described it as “harmful” for the country’s relations with African states.
Head of the Supreme Council for Media Regulation (SCMR) Makram Mohamed Ahmed decided to suspend the advert indefinitely on all satellite channels.
In their decision, the council stated that “the content of the TV ad harms Egyptian-African relations and the interests of the Egyptian state in Africa.”

It also said violators will be fined if they air the ad.
The suspension followed a complaint by Khalid Emara , Egypt’s Deputy-Assistant Foreign Minister for African Affairs over the nature of the ad.


Eurovision Sport, Camb.ai to provide live subtitling for Paralympic Winter Games

Updated 06 March 2026
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Eurovision Sport, Camb.ai to provide live subtitling for Paralympic Winter Games

  • Partnership aims to increase accessibility for all audiences
  • Milano Cortina Games run from Friday to March 15

LONDON: Eurovision Sport, the European Broadcasting Union’s free-to-air streaming platform, will provide live and on-demand subtitling for coverage of the Milano Cortina 2026 Paralympic Winter Games in partnership with AI language company Camb.ai

The service will run across all competition days, allowing viewers to stream all six Paralympic Winter Games sports on Eurovision Sport with real-time subtitles. The Games open on Friday and run through March 15.

Camb.ai will supply contextual speech-to-text transcription for both live and catch-up coverage, which the organizers said would support accessibility without altering the editorial integrity of broadcasts.

Eurovision Sport Managing Director Alan Fagan said the aim was to make the Games available to “the widest possible audience,” by scaling up digital accessibility across every event on the platform.

The initiative forms part of the EBU’s most extensive digital coverage of a Paralympic Winter Games to date and complements member broadcasters’ linear output.

It also reflects a wider industry push to make live sport easier to follow for viewers watching without sound, people with hearing impairments and audiences consuming content on demand.

Camb.ai’s Chief Technology Officer Akshat Prakash said the company was proud to deepen its partnership with Eurovision Sport, describing the platform as a leader in applying new technology to sports coverage.

The two organizations began working together in 2024, when they delivered what they described as Europe’s first AI-powered real-time translated sports commentary during European Athletics events.