The National Aids Council met with chiefs from Mashonaland East today at Macheke. They told these tribal leaders about their new program called "Not in my Village." NAC wants these respected community heads to help fight HIV and AIDS where they live. The chiefs can reach people regular health workers might miss.
During this meeting, NAC staff asked the leaders to talk about HIV prevention with their communities. They explained how important local authority figures are when spreading health messages. Chiefs hold special power to change behaviors among rural families. All the traditional leaders promised they would fully support what NAC plans to do.
Two guys from Zimbabwe will spend five years in jail after cops caught them with illegal tobacco. Samuel Nkomo, age 38, and Jesphat Aaron Mawire, age 46, faced a judge at the South Africa Commercial Crimes Court last Thursday. Police found them with R8 million worth of stuff they shouldn't have had. The pair broke the rules about what you can bring into South Africa.
Police stopped their white truck last September on Dendron Road near Polokwane. The officers searched the vehicle as part of a regular road check. Inside, they found 908 boxes of hookah tobacco wrapped in plastic. According to the marks on the packages, this tobacco came all the way from Turkey.
When police asked for papers showing they could bring this tobacco into the...
Harare magistrate Munashe Chibanda found Takudzwa Munyawarara guilty last week. The court sentenced him for cheating Mandy Mvukwe, who runs Garwe Restaurant, out of $48,000. He promised to buy mobile toilets from China but never delivered them. Munyawarara claimed he never did anything wrong during his trial.
The judge initially sentenced Munyawarara to 18 months in jail. Six months were reduced for good behavior, and another six months were reduced if he paid back all the money by April 15. He must stay behind bars for six months, no matter what. The case started when Mvukwe wanted to start renting portable toilets at events.
Last May, Mvukwe talked with Munyawarara about her business plan. He said he could import toilets from China...
ASUS fixed a big problem with their PCIe Q-Release system on the ROG Crosshair X870E Apex motherboard. They changed the Q-Release Slim design because it damaged GPU PCIe connectors over time. Users on Reddit and Bilibili noticed scratches and shared pictures of the issue. ASUS first said this happened naturally after taking out and putting in graphics cards about 60 times.
The company later took out the metal bracket that caused all the scratching. Outside experts checked the new design and found it barely touches the sensitive PCIe parts anymore. This matters a lot because high-end graphics cards have tiny electrical contacts that break easily. Even small scratches can mess up how these expensive parts work in your computer.
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Colorful added a new motherboard to their lineup without making a big announcement. You can find the Battle-AX B850M-E WIFI V14 on their Chinese website right away. This microATX board measures 244 mm by 235 mm and works with AMD's Ryzen 7000, 8000, and 9000 chips. The company built it around the AMD B850 chipset for budget-minded PC builders who want just the basics.
The board includes two DDR5 memory slots that can handle up to 96 GB of memory. Each slot accepts a 48 GB stick and can reach 7600 MHz speeds when pushed beyond normal limits. You'll also find two M.2 slots for fast storage—one supports PCIe 5.0 x4, and the other runs at PCIe 4.0 x4 speeds. For expansion cards, it offers a PCIe 4.0 x16 slot plus an extra PCIe 4.0 x4 slot...
The court pushed back the bail hearing for Dr. Kizza Besigye and Hajji Obeid Lutale Kamulegeya to April 11. Prosecutors told Judge Rosette Kania they needed extra time to read through all the papers from Besigye's lawyers. These two men have sat in Luzira prison for more than three months already. The judge ordered both sides to hand in their written arguments by March 31.
Prosecutors Richard Birivumbuka and Joseph Kyomuhendo asked for a delay because they face many cases next week at the International Crimes Court. They wanted two weeks extra time, but Judge Kania thought that was way too long. She told them to finish their work by next Wednesday instead. The court did allow Besigye's friends from parliament to stand as his guarantors...
According to researchers from Makerere University, half of young women working at mining sites caught a sexually transmitted infection last year. The team talked with 810 people at gold mines across Kassanda, Mubende, Busia, and Namayingo areas. Professor Betty Kwagala headed up this project, which examined health and money problems for people living in small mining camps. They checked how these communities lived before and after COVID-19 hit the country.
The research team found many health issues beyond just STIs. Several women suffered from health problems because they touched mercury at work. COVID-19 made life harder for young women, who then took more risks with their safety. About 28 percent of women said they had sex with...
An Oxford Crown Court found Judge Lydia Mugambe from Uganda guilty of modern slavery. She brought a housemaid to England but never paid her for any work. The court will decide her punishment on May 2, and she might go to jail for life. Mugambe studied law at Oxford University, and many people thought she was one of the best judges in Uganda.
She misused her power as a judge to help the young woman travel to England. She wrote down that Uganda's High Commissioner John Leonard Mugerwa would be the woman's boss at work. This broke British immigration rules. Mugambe promised to help Mugerwa with a court case back home if he played along. The Uganda government protected Mugerwa from facing charges in Britain.
After thinking about the case...
The Uganda Police detective showed videos in court yesterday that captured Henry Katanga's last hours alive at his home. Detective Enock Kanene played the footage for Judge Rosette Kania Comfort. These videos came from security cameras at Katanga's large house in Mbuya.
The recordings show Katanga driving up to his house around 8 p.m. on November 1, 2023. He parked his white Toyota Prado Land Cruiser before walking through the kitchen entrance. He wore blue pants and a white shirt with short sleeves. The detective told the court someone turned off all cameras at 7:14 a.m. the next morning. When cameras started recording again at 8:48 a.m., house workers looked scared and rushed around.
Camera footage shows the family gardener, George...
