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ASUS dropped another Mini-ITX board for AM5 socket builds, and this one rocks an all-white colorway for people obsessed with matching their entire setup. The ROG STRIX B850-I Gaming WIFI7 W keeps the same specs as the black version but swaps out the paint job. The board packs a 13-phase power...

Sony quietly tweaked the liquid metal cooling setup on newer PS5 and PS5 Slim units after people kept complaining about thermal paste leaking all over the place inside their consoles. The company borrowed the deeper groove design from the PS5 Pro, and the fix showed up on CFI-2100 and CFI-2200...

Moody's just smacked Liquid Intelligent Technologies with another credit downgrade to Caa2, which basically means the ratings agency thinks this massive African telecom company might struggle to pay back $620 million coming due next year. The kicker is that their Zimbabwean operation appears to...

Gambia Ports Authority put out a tender looking for a dredging outfit to dig out the Banjul access channel from 9.3 meters down to at least 11 meters, which would let bigger ships roll through. This marks the first time the port has ever tried something like this, and the authority says deeper...

Jacob Francis Sarr kicked off the Taranga Youth Foundation at a church in Kololi, basically trying to tackle mental health problems and give Gambian kids better options than risking their lives on boats to Europe. The guy got emotional about watching young people back home getting crushed by...

Goodluck Jonathan says Guinea-Bissau's president basically faked a military takeover to stop the election results from getting announced. The former Nigerian leader was monitoring the vote with the West African Elders Forum, and he thinks Umaro Sissoco Embaló staged the whole thing because the...

A prosecutor in Ziguinchor wants a sex worker locked up for two years, fined five million CFA francs, and deported after accusations she knowingly spread HIV. The case blew up on social media, and crowds packed the courthouse to watch the foreign national face charges. Defense lawyers tried...

Four dancers from Flex Fuzion Dance Academy made Gambia look good at the World Federation of Acrobatic and Dance Sports World Cup in Moscow. Mariama Camara, Kaddijatou Baldeh, Sanjaku Kamara, and Daniel Taylor competed against teams from 30 countries, and they grabbed sixth place globally with...

Benjamin Mkapa Hospital rolled into Singida with heart specialists to screen and treat cardiac issues in both kids and grown-ups, and people showed up in droves. Acting Assistant Director Rayhan Mbisso said the five-day camp brought cardiologists who can handle patients across age groups, while...

Russia's nuclear outfit Rosatom just got the green light to 3D-print parts for their RITM-200 reactor, and they cranked out a terminal box for pump gear as their first piece. This whole thing apparently draws on six decades of nuclear ship experience mixed with fancy modern design software and...

Zanzibar's president, Hussein Ali Mwinyi, told a Commonwealth Enterprise and Investment Council delegation that the islands are hunting for more business partners, especially in blue economy and tourism projects. These two sectors pull in about 30 percent of the GDP, and Mwinyi thinks there's...

Tanzania's former top judge, Mohammed Chande Othman, is heading up a nine-person team to dig into what went down during the October general election mess. The commission has six main areas to cover, starting with figuring out what kicked off the violence and what people were thinking when they...

A health specialist from the East Central and Southern Africa Health Community warns that antimicrobial resistance has become a massive systems-level threat affecting everything from medical care to food security across the region. Microorganisms are evolving to resist medicines, and infections...

Oryx Gas Tanzania wants to hit that government target of getting 80 percent of people switched over to clean cooking fuel by 2034, and they're upgrading their distribution setup to make it happen. Sales boss Shaban Fundi talked about their GESI YENTE promo that pulled over a million participants...

Algeria hosted a continental summit where African leaders pushed hard for colonial crimes to get officially labeled as crimes against humanity. President Abdelmadjid Tebboune backed the move to criminalize colonialism alongside slavery and apartheid, while delegates hammered out plans for...

Exim Bank Tanzania kicked off a two-month campaign pushing cashless payments with their Mastercard through point-of-sale terminals and online checkout. The promo runs until late January and drops weekly prizes of 100,000 shillings for five people, while monthly winners get 200,000 each. Grand...

Retired Chief Justice Mohammed Chande Othman says the independent commission he leads will dig into election violence across mainland Tanzania and track down what actually went down. He met with reporters in Dar es Salaam and promised victims will get heard while the investigation stays...

African leaders at a conference in Algiers want colonial-era crimes officially recognized and are pushing for reparations. Algerian Foreign Minister Ahmed Attaf said his country dealt with serious abuse under French rule, and he wants compensation plus stolen property returned through a legal...

President Samia Suluhu Hassan is meeting with Dar es Salaam elders at the Julius Nyerere International Conference Center, and she's set to give a speech that's basically about keeping the country locked in on peace and unity while pumping up its reputation at home and abroad. Regional...

Tanzania's government told Burundian refugees at camps that citizenship isn't happening, and they need to head back home since things have settled down there. Home Affairs Minister George Simbachawene laid it out at a meeting with Burundi and UNHCR reps, saying the camps aren't turning into...