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The Mo Ibrahim Foundation (MIF) today launched its IIAG Series 2023 Report, “The Power of Data for Governance: Closing data gaps to accelerate Africa’s transformation,” in Accra.

Only three African countries (Egypt, Mauritius, and Seychelles) have a death registration system that registers at least 90 per cent of...

Days like today. when they've had a moment, they've been sampling and listening to the sea as part of a research project with portsmouth university. we have probably collected, i think, 43 microplastic samples, 86 edna samples, and at the same time we've taken some recordings. so we've probably got several terabytes worth of sound data for them to analyse. the rowing has been non—stop, so sleeping has been in shifts at either end of the boat. there's three of us in here. we just literally are like sardines. and if you move, everybody has to move. this has not been an easy challenge. navigati...

Will there be substantive change on these issues? matt mentioned one there about raising the age, something the president expressed support for but then backed off after his meeting with the nra. you've had some steps, safe schools funding, looks like bump stocks are going to get banned. but do you think again, charles, that it didn't really make a difference or at least hasn't made a difference yet in terms of real substantive gun legislation changes? >> well, i take issue with that. i believe that it has, right. in the omnibus bill, one of the things i've been harping on forever is that the ...

Negotiate great deals. but for people who care about data integrity, they don't consider the numbers a swamp. >> we have had tremendous advantage in this country because of the credibility of our data and the credibility of our policies because they were based on sound data. if we were to sacrifice that, i think we pay a tremendous cost. >> reporter: so, jim, government data crunchers are also worried about the trump administration cutting their budgets. surprisingly little federal money actually goes into data collection as it is. it represents less than 1/5 of 1% of the federal budget accord...