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A major media group is struggling because the government won't pay its bills. Alpha Media Holdings, the private company that publishes NewsDay, Zimbabwe Independent, The Standard, and Southern Eye, claims government departments owe it roughly four hundred thousand US dollars in unpaid...

A kid and a man drowned trying to get a plastic bottle. Two people, a five-year-old boy and a thirty-one-year-old man, died after falling into a deep water-filled pit in the Mzila Compound area of Kwekwe. Police confirmed the Christmas Day tragedy occurred when the child tried to retrieve an...

An entire neighborhood has to buy its own power transformer. Elderly residents in the Tynwald and Stordford areas of Harare, around eighty households, have been without electricity for nearly a month after vandals stole a critical transformer. Ward Councilor Denford Ngadziore highlighted that...

Another arrest was made in a high-profile farm murder case. An additional suspect named Ephraim Alphas appeared in Harare court on murder and armed robbery charges related to the killing of businessman Joseph Mutangadura. This brings the total number of people arrested to eight. The incident...

China's embassy honored a late Zimbabwean war hero. The Chinese Embassy in Zimbabwe released a statement commemorating General Josiah Magama Tongogara on the anniversary of his 1979 death. They described the former liberation commander as a towering figure whose strategic foresight was central...

Zimbabwe cops arrested three guys for an eight-dollar mugging. Police in Harare detained two men and a teenager, identified as Motion Garisai, Edmore Garisai, and Christian Obey Keresai, for allegedly robbing a nineteen-year-old woman named Tariro. The incident happened on Stoney Road in the...

UN experts say UK hunger strikers need protection. United Nations human rights experts called for the immediate safeguarding of eight pro-Palestine activists on hunger strike in the United Kingdom prisons since early November. The group includes individuals named Qesser Zuhrah, Amu Gib, Heba...

Najib Razak got slammed with a massive fine and prison time. A Malaysian High Court convicted former Prime Minister Najib Razak on multiple charges related to the 1MDB financial scandal. Justice Collin Lawrence Sequerah found him guilty on four counts of abuse of power and twenty-one counts of...

A judge blocked the feds from deporting a digital hate researcher. A federal judge in Manhattan temporarily stopped the Trump administration from arresting or removing British-born lawful permanent resident Imran Ahmed. Judge Vernon S. Broderick of the Southern District of New York granted a...

Postgrad students are sleeping in a parking lot at UCT. A group of University of Cape Town postgraduate students, mostly pursuing master’s degrees, are currently living under a gazebo in a campus parking lot after being evicted from their residence rooms. This situation stems from unpaid student...

South Africa got pounded by another holiday storm. Severe thunderstorms ripped through northern KwaZulu-Natal, specifically hitting the Amajuba and Umzinyathi districts hard. Areas around Utrecht, Dannhauser, and Newcastle saw widespread damage to houses from heavy rain and hail. Local...

Holiday drive turns deadly in Mpumalanga. A head-on collision on the N4 toll road killed seven people and left a single survivor hospitalized with serious injuries. The crash happened between the towns of Machadodorp and Belfast, specifically in the Dalmanutha area near the Berg en Dal monument...

A military patrol in Mpumalanga ended in a fatal flood. A South African National Defence Force vehicle was swept from a bridge over the Nkomazi River near Komatipoort. One soldier's body has been recovered. A second service member from 9 South African Infantry Battalion remains missing after the...

A U.S. airstrike in Africa just got the whole sovereignty debate raging again. The Economic Freedom Fighters, a South African political party, slammed recent American military action in Nigeria. These air strikes, ordered by President Donald Trump, hit Islamic State targets in Sokoto State on...

A former South African president just told Africa to ditch the dollar. Jacob Zuma gave a speech in Accra, Ghana, at the University of Professional Studies, where he pushed for a single continental currency. He said reliance on the American dollar weakens the continent. Zuma argued that around...

Tax tech is apparently crushing it this year. The Tanzania Revenue Authority collected over 8.97 trillion shillings in the first quarter of the fiscal year, beating its target by six percent. This growth is linked to digital tools like Electronic Tax Stamps and the Fuel Marking Programme. These...

A vocational training project is getting kids jobs. The VEMA project, run by the VETA College in Mwanza with Plan International and Belgian Development Cooperation support, is teaching skills to marginalized youth. VETA Mwanza Principal Engineer Henry Kasele said it started in March 2024, aiming...

Educating girls is a major focus for getting the country ahead. In Tanzania, coordinated efforts between the government and the civil society group HakiElimu aim to tackle barriers keeping girls from school. Their Gender Equality Transformation in Education Project, known as MMUKE, works on...

The women's golf union wants members to run for office. The Tanzania Ladies Golf Union called on female golfers to collect nomination forms for its upcoming leadership election. TLGU President Queen Siraki encouraged interested women to participate fully in the process for the 2026-2028 terms...

Sports can supposedly bring everyone together, according to a president. Zanzibar President Hussein Ali Mwinyi opened the AFED Sports Festival Zanzibar 2025 at the Maisara Sports Complex in the Urban West Region. He stated that sport is a powerful force for uniting communities and nations. This...