Africa's entire postal playbook is getting a digital-era rewrite as delegates from across the continent converge on Uganda for a major two-week conference.
PAPU conference kicks off in Uganda
The 11th Pan-African Postal Union session runs from March 16 to 28.
Regulators, operators, and policymakers are all attending.
Digital transformation of postal services is the central theme.
E-commerce, logistics, and financial inclusion top the agenda.
Uganda flexing its postal modernization cred
Ibrahim Bbosa says parcel tracking is Uganda's big showcase.
Multiple countries have already visited Uganda to benchmark systems.
Uganda's licensing regime is apparently unique on the continent.
A national digital transformation roadmap targets 2040...
A proposed salt tax would hit food manufacturers whose products blow past sodium limits, with revenue funneled straight into public health programs.
Moyo pitches the salt-tax framework
Obadiah Moyo floated sodium caps on processed food products.
Manufacturers exceeding limits would face escalating excise taxes.
Consumers themselves would not get taxed under his proposal.
Revenue would bankroll blood-pressure screening and clinic education.
Health risks driving the push
Excessive salt intake significantly raises blood pressure.
That cascade leads to kidney disease, stroke, and heart failure.
Moyo currently advises the National Men's Forum for Economic Development.
His former role as health minister lends the pitch some credibility...
ZANU-PF just told its Masvingo members to start tracking every NGO in the province for signs of political meddling.
Mudenda's marching orders at the PCC meeting
Jacob Mudenda pushed for active NGO surveillance in Masvingo.
He accused some organizations of hiding behind humanitarian work.
Mudenda framed their political involvement as regime-change plotting.
His speech happened at the Robert Mugabe School of Education.
Legal muscle backing the crackdown
The PVO Amendment Act became law on 11 April 2025.
It grants the state sweeping audit and suspension powers.
Governance and human-rights groups face the biggest exposure.
NGO activities must align with national development goals, apparently.
Zimbabwe's entire education supervision network is basically dead in the water because district and provincial offices cannot even afford toilet paper.
Offices running on fumes, literally
District and provincial education offices are shutting down nationwide.
Zero stationery, toner, fuel, water, or electricity exists.
School inspectors are desk-bound with nowhere to go.
Some staffers just stopped showing up entirely.
BSPZ workers caught in a financial freeze
Better Schools Programme Zimbabwe accounts got frozen by the Treasury.
Alleged fund abuse by education officers triggered that move.
BSPZ workers have gone unpaid since October 2025.
Parent payments are basically keeping administrative functions alive.
Field inspections...
Six armed robbers dressed up as cops are shaking down residents in rural Zimbabwe, and the same white Nissan Navara keeps showing up at every hit.
Fake cops running a fuel-accusation scam
Six guys are impersonating officers across Buhera and Hwedza.
Their go-to move accuses victims of illegal fuel sales.
A white Nissan Navara with plates AFK5642 ties them together.
One suspect visibly carried a holstered pistol each time.
Blessing Gutu got hit first
Blessing Gutu lost US$190 at Mutiweshiri Business Centre.
Robbers claimed they represented some high-ranking office.
They cornered him in a bedroom behind his shop.
Gutu reported the theft to the Dorowa Police Station afterward.
The second victim within 30 minutes
Blessing Nyamurova...
An alleged serial killer just casually described eating human flesh and selling body parts to healers during a prison visit from Zimbabwe's First Lady.
Zvitsva's confession to Auxillia Mnangagwa
Anymore Zvitsva admitted to cannibalism during the visit.
He sold a victim's breasts for ritual purposes.
Auxillia Mnangagwa met him at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison.
Zvitsva remains wheelchair-bound from his arrest shooting.
How the first killing allegedly went down
Zvitsva broke into a home hunting for food initially.
He returned later, and a confrontation spiraled violently.
His victim fought back hard with an axe.
Retrieving his phone became the motive for murder.
Body parts fueling a dark economy
Zvitsva murdered his niece after...
A 72-year-old woman survived an axe blow and being set on fire, only to die from her injuries a month later in hospital.
Mpofu's brutal attack on his stepmother
Mpofu struck Christine Ncube with an axe at her Lupane homestead.
He then torched her inside the kitchen hut.
Ncube was 72 and reportedly his stepmother.
Witnesses found her alive but critically burned.
How the case unraveled fast
Mpofu literally called his brother to confess afterward.
Ncube survived initially but died a month later.
NPA evidence placed the attack on 17 May 2025.
The High Court Circuit at Hwange handled proceedings.
Mpofu's version versus the evidence
His defense blamed a verbal argument over grain chores.
Mpofu claimed a burning log caused an accidental...
A full-blown misconduct tribunal just landed on a Zimbabwean High Court judge accused of cooking judgments and dodging investigations.
Mnangagwa greenlights the Katiyo probe
Emmerson Mnangagwa appointed a tribunal targeting Justice Katiyo.
Gross misconduct allegations triggered the whole process.
JSC recommended the investigation back in October 2025.
Statutory Instrument 54 of 2026 formalized everything.
What Katiyo allegedly pulled off
Never Katiyo reportedly dropped a ruling before its scheduled date.
He allegedly fabricated advocate submissions that never happened.
Katiyo supposedly changed a judgment date after complaints surfaced.
His rescission move looked like an investigation-dodging attempt.
More red flags on the judge's...
A call to ditch the job-seeker mindset just hit Ghana's youth, with the Minority Leader arguing that creators will shape the country's future more than applicants.
Afenyo Markin's keynote at Beyond the Degree 2026
Alexander Afenyo Markin spoke at Saturday's conference as the keynote.
His core message: Ghana needs job creators, not just seekers.
Overstretched institutions cannot absorb every new graduate.
Rising graduate numbers make entrepreneurship even more critical.
Sectors and mindset shifts he spotlighted
Agriculture, manufacturing, and digital innovation got name-checked.
Technical skills and the creative economy were highlighted.
Building businesses automatically generates employment for others.
Gates, Jack Ma, and Jobs were...
