The Kenyan president and his cabinet just went on an appointment spree, filling up a bunch of government boards and university councils. Ruto kept Winfrida Ngumi running the highways authority for another year, while the education minister dropped like 20 different people into various university positions across the country.
The transport guy made some moves at different road agencies, and the information minister added four fresh faces to the Media Council. Housing picked up six new trustees for some slum upgrading fund, but the trade ministry actually fired someone from the anti-counterfeit board. All these changes kicked in right away, according to the official government notices.
Zambian lawmakers just booted Tasila Lungu from her parliamentary gig because she kept skipping work after her dad, the former president Edgar Lungu, died. She represented Chawama in Lusaka but has been stuck dealing with court battles over in South Africa about where to bury her father. The current president wanted to bring the body back for a state funeral, but the family is fighting that because the dead guy apparently said he wanted the president nowhere near his corpse.
Parliament gave her two weeks off to grieve, and then she asked to work remotely while the burial mess got sorted out. The speaker shot that down and said virtual meetings are not the same as actually showing up. Critics are calling the government hypocrites for...
Pipeline Estate sits right next to Nairobi's airport, and it looks like absolute chaos with all these cramped high-rise apartment buildings jammed together. The whole neighborhood got built up over the past couple of decades when developers threw up cheap rental units for people moving into the city. Each building has like 200 to 300 tenants crammed in there.
Researchers spent time talking to folks living in these spots and found that dudes and women handle stress completely differently. The guys feel this intense pressure to provide money for their families, so they cope by hitting bars, cheating on their partners, or getting aggressive. Meanwhile, women just feel exhausted all the time and mostly deal with it by staying inside...
Greatman Music and Alice Karonga were feuding on Facebook, exchanging nasty words.
Some sketch Facebook account posted this whole sob story pretending to be Larry Madowo, claiming Tanzanian officials wanted him dead and asking people to send money to some random bank account. The CNN reporter shut that down real quick, saying it was completely fake.
The bogus post showed up after Madowo did this investigation about Tanzanian cops allegedly killing protestors who were mad about their recent election results. The government over there got pretty heated about his reporting and held press conferences trashing it, but they never actually said what parts were wrong. The European Parliament even voted to potentially cut funding to Tanzania because of what the report showed.
Madowo has been getting trolled hard by people...
Kenya Pipeline Company just snagged the top spot as Company of the Year, pulling in a 7.1 excellence score. The state-owned pipeline operator beat out everyone else by crushing it across stuff like productivity, innovation, leadership, and environmental responsibility. Their productivity numbers jumped from 3.09 to 4.37, and the government labor department called that pretty wild.
The company has been branching out beyond just moving fuel around. They started getting into fiber optic cables by using their existing pipeline setup to help with internet connectivity. KPC also teamed up with Boma International School of Hospitality to train people for jobs in tourism, and the tourism minister showed up to make it official. Managing...
Trump just dropped that he's gonna pardon Juan Orlando Hernández, the ex-Honduras president who got nailed on drug trafficking charges and sentenced to 45 years. The guy helped move massive amounts of cocaine into America, but apparently got treated unfairly, according to Trump's social media post.
The timing is pretty wild since Honduras has an election coming up this weekend. Trump's backing the conservative candidate Nasry Asfura and trashing the other two guys running, calling one of them basically a communist. Hernández used to lead the same party as Asfura before getting extradited and convicted by a New York jury.
Meanwhile, the current Honduran leader, Xiomara Castro, has been buddy-buddy with Cuba and Venezuela, which Trump...
Some wild gossip started making the rounds that Burna Boy supposedly kicked his mom, Bose Ogulu, out of her manager role. The whole thing blew up after ChaftsAfrica posted what they claimed was the singer's Instagram story about it, and random people on social media started spreading it around.
His sister Nissi shut that down real quick, though. She called it straight-up fake news when someone asked her about it online. The rumor popped up right when Burna Boy was getting roasted for not selling enough concert tickets.
Kiddwaya from Big Brother Naija says his father, Terry Waya, was the one who found Banana Island over in Lagos. The reality show contestant dropped this tidbit during a podcast appearance, and he admitted he had no clue about it until someone brought it up while he was traveling.
Terry Waya calls himself a billionaire with money spread across real estate, farming, and hotels. More people started paying attention to him after his kid showed up on the reality program back in 2020.
