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India upgraded its Kabul mission to full embassy status and let the Taliban assign diplomats to their Delhi posts after Afghanistan's acting foreign minister visited. Mawlavi Amir Khan Muttaqi showed up to discuss humanitarian projects like maternity centers and cancer treatment facilities, and...

Thailand's prime minister told reporters his military would keep bombing Cambodian positions until the threat disappears, and he pushed back against claims that both sides agreed to halt fighting. Anutin Charnvirakul posted on social media that operations would continue despite Donald Trump...

Tanzania's National Sports Council teamed up with the football federation and Blueberry Travels to organize group flights for supporters heading to Morocco for the AFCON tournament. Benson Chacha from NSC mentioned that fans kept asking about coordinated trips, so they picked a travel company to...

Fadhil Nkya grabbed his fourth straight win at the Lina PG Tour Pro-Am event after finishing the 72-hole competition in Morogoro with a plus-16 total. The Dar es Salaam Gymkhana Club player beat clubmate Rajab Iddy by three strokes and has already banked 27.2 million shillings this season, which...

Tanzania's tourism sector pulled in $3.92 billion by May and finally overtook gold exports as the country's biggest foreign-currency generator. The expansion created 1.5 million direct jobs and another million across the supply chain, with companies like Altezza Travel growing from ten employees...

A 79-year-old guy from Ijumbi Ward just handed over some land and a building to the Tanzania Police Force without asking for anything back. Prosper Rweyendera donated in Muleba District, and Senior Assistant Commissioner Blasius Chatanda showed up to accept it. The regional commander praised the...

Coast Region officials got told to ditch the red tape and back President Samia Suluhu Hassan's 100-day promises after she got sworn in back in November. Regional Commissioner Abubakar Kunenge gathered district bosses, council chairs from all nine councils, and department heads to check progress...

A truck with busted brakes plowed into a group of motorcycle taxi drivers chilling on the roadside near the University of Dodoma, and five bodaboda riders got killed, while one person ended up in the hospital. The driver of vehicle T 824 EKS bounced right after smashing into the group before...

Tanzania's Vice President Emmanuel Nchimbi showed up at former Peramiho MP Jenista Mhagama's place in Dodoma to pay respects after she died at 58. He said the ex-health minister spent years repping her constituency while pushing development across the Ruvuma Region and working with the ruling...

Tanzanians are hyping up the government's security push after some post-election chaos back in October messed with the country's reputation as a stable spot in the region. Professor Humphrey Moshi from the University of Dar es Salaam said the whole thing was a wake-up call that peace keeps the...

Diamond Trust Bank Tanzania bumped profits by half to 13 billion shillings during early 2025, while assets hit 1.89 trillion, mostly because they doubled down on small and medium businesses instead of chasing big corporate clients. CEO Ravneet Chowdhury said the bank gets in early with SMEs that...

Airtel Tanzania just dropped three new cell towers across Morogoro and Kilimanjaro to patch up dead zones that have been killing business and emergency comms for years. Morogoro scored two spots in Gairo District at Magoweko ward and Kihonda VETA, while Kilimanjaro got one at Sanya Juu in Hai...

Tanzania is letting people snag birth certificates in 48 hours through a new digital system that works on phones or computers. The Registration, Insolvency and Trusteeship Agency rolled out the platform to make things easier nationwide, and Constitution Minister Dr Juma Zuberi Homera said the...

President Ruto basically told everyone to chill about the US health deal, saying Kenya's data stays locked down under local laws. He mentioned the Attorney General went over everything super carefully to make sure Kenyan regulations control any info that gets collected, and he's not letting...

NTSA is warning people about a fake website called Mverified that's been scamming Kenyans who need vehicle documents. The authority said the site doesn't belong to them, and they're telling anyone who got hit to file a police report since multiple people probably already lost cash. The real...

Kenyan lawmakers are pushing for immediate legal clarification on the Defense Cooperation Agreement with the UK after finding out the British Army Training Unit has been operating without proper legal backing. The committee led by Belgut MP Nelson Koech said the 2015 deal expired back in 2021...

Kenya's planning to show off the cops who just got back from Haiti by having them march in the Jamhuri Day parade after wrapping up their 18-month deployment. Inspector General Douglas Kanja said the 230 officers landed back home earlier this week, and a fresh crew already touched down to take...

Senator Okiya Omtatah went to court trying to block a massive health deal between Kenya and America that drops 208 billion shillings into Kenyan health systems over five years. He's saying the whole thing got signed without anyone asking the public or getting Parliament's thumbs-up, which...

Willis Raburu is dragging two companies to court over a festival deal gone sideways, and he wants 10 million shillings for the mess. His firm Steizon handled promo and event logistics for the Furaha City Festival that went down last year, cranking out 60-plus reels, over 100 posts, hitting a...

Kasmuel McOure said his Broad-Based Youth Front is gonna start hitting up the government straight-up instead of going through politicians who ghosted them during last year's street protests. He called out some leaders who are trying to worm their way back into youth stuff without actually...