A wrongful stock-theft conviction just collapsed after the allegedly stolen oxen turned up alive somewhere else entirely.
Chrispen and Taurai Sanyatwe walk free
Chrispen and Taurai Sanyatwe spent four years locked up for supposedly stealing two oxen in Tikwiri Village, Rusape.
Their September 2021 trial handed down 10 years, with one year suspended.
Chrispen was a serving cop at Rusape Rural Police Station when arrested.
Key defence witnesses were never called to testify at trial.
Fresh evidence blows the case apart
Diana Murombe, the complainant, later confirmed via sworn affidavit that her cattle had been found in Mutambira Village.
Physical descriptions she gave at trial did not even match the recovered animals.
Defence lawyer...
Over three million dollars in court-ordered payback from a goat-scheme fraud remains completely untouched, and prison time could get longer.
Moses Mpofu and Mike Chimombe dodge restitution
Moses Mpofu and Mike Chimombe, both jailed for defrauding a Presidential Goat Pass-On Scheme, owe a combined US$3,024,315.24.
Mpofu got 22 years, with four of those conditional on coughing up US$2,060,250.60.
Chimombe landed 17 years, and two are tied to repaying US$964,064.64.
Zero dollars have reached the government so far.
How the US$87 million scam worked
Blackdeck Livestock and Poultry Farming scored an US$87 million goat-supply contract using fake ZIMRA and NSSA certificates.
Rural food-security programs for vulnerable groups were the...
A streaming platform is getting axed because hemorrhaging cash every year finally caught up with it.
MultiChoice pulling the plug on Showmax
MultiChoice, owned by CANAL+ SA, is killing off Showmax after a full operational review.
Massive yearly financial bleeding made keeping the service alive untenable.
Board-level sign-off greenlit the shutdown amid a brutal streaming landscape.
Nobody is getting laid off, and staff will get transition support.
CANAL+ is betting big on a new platform
A fresh, built-from-scratch streaming service targeting African and global audiences is in the works.
Premium content and tech upgrades remain spending priorities for CANAL+.
Strategic tie-ups will keep reinforcing its grip on African entertainment...
A five-year deal between Smart Africa and Gabon's digital ministry plants a new digital skills academy inside the country's existing innovation hub.
MoU details
Smart Africa and Gabon's Ministry of Digital Economy signed at MWC Barcelona 2026.
The agreement establishes the Smart Africa Digital Academy in Gabon.
Gabon Innovation Centre will host and implement the program nationally.
What the academy targets
Citizens and public officials get digital skills training.
E-learning platforms and capacity-building programs form the core delivery model.
Strategic partnerships with donors and service providers back the effort.
Strengthening Gabon's broader digital ecosystem is the five-year goal.
A mobile-first investment platform built on M-PESA just snagged the GSMA GLOMO award for Best FinTech and Digital Commerce Innovation at MWC 2026.
Ziidi's GLOMO win
Safaricom and Huawei jointly took home the award for the Ziidi Wealth Platform.
Their mobile money collaboration stretches back over a decade in Africa.
Ziidi launched in 2025 as a money market fund service in Kenya.
Huawei co-developed the solution and serves as a strategy partner for M-PESA.
Why Ziidi blew up
Entry threshold sits at just 100 Kenyan shillings, roughly $0.77.
Full M-PESA integration means instant returns and anytime withdrawals.
Interest accrues daily and gets credited at midnight for full transparency.
Traditional funds covered about 300,000 Kenyans...
Triple honors from Ookla landed on MTN Nigeria's lap at MWC26 for dominating speed and experience metrics across the region.
Speedtest awards breakdown
MTN Nigeria grabbed the fastest 5G in Western Africa from Ookla.
Best Mobile Network in Nigeria was another win for them.
Best Mobile Video Experience rounded out the hat trick.
Yahaya Ibrahim represented MTN Nigeria at the ceremony.
MWC26 presence
Celebrations are running all week at Hall 2, booth 2i28.
Ookla framed the awards as proof of top-tier connectivity commitment.
Uplink speeds are getting a massive industry push as GSMA targets 20 Mbps baseline with 1 Gbps peak to unblock mobile AI at scale.
GigaUplink initiative revealed
GSMA launched the GigaUplink network initiative at MWC26 Barcelona.
Ubiquitous 20 Mbps uplink with 1 Gbps peak is the target metric.
Resolving the uplink bottleneck is framed as critical for mobile AI.
A companion white paper dropped alongside the announcement.
White paper highlights
Data transmission and network-service synergy are the scaling hurdles.
GigaUplink, deterministic latency, and agentic networks form the fix.
Industrial data backhaul and AI device interaction are key use cases.
Immersive entertainment rounds out the opportunity set.
Industry voices at the...
Three foundational projects under TM Forum's AI-Native Blueprint just dropped, giving telecom operators a shared playbook for scaling AI beyond isolated pilot programs.
AI-Native Blueprint launches
TM Forum kicked off MODaaS, DPLM, and Agentic Interactions Security.
All three tackle fragmented data, inconsistent model ops, and missing governance.
The blueprint debuted conceptually at DTW Ignite 2025.
Long-term industry-wide value could hit hundreds of billions of dollars.
Heavy-hitter membership roster
AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, and Telstra are all contributing members.
Google, Huawei, Dell, and Salesforce represent the tech side.
China Telecom, China Unicom, and Telenor add global carrier weight.
Accenture, PwC, and SAS bring...
Ghana's first shared 5G backbone just went commercially live, with a wholesale-only model designed to stop operators from wasting money on duplicate infrastructure.
NGIC goes live
Next Gen InfraCo Limited launched full commercial 5G operations in Ghana.
Accra, Kumasi, and Tamale are the first locations on the network.
Phased nationwide expansion is already in the pipeline.
NCA confirmed all regulatory and technical requirements were satisfied.
Wholesale-only architecture
NGIC operates as a neutral-host platform for licensed mobile operators.
Retail carriers plug into shared infrastructure rather than build their own.
CEO Tenu Awoonor framed it as moving from 5G ambition to execution.
COO Neyi George Andah stressed the need for...
