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Museveni just scrapped every fishing lake committee in the country. The President ordered the Chief of Defence Forces, Muhoozi Kainerugaba, to immediately dissolve all landing site management committees on Ugandan lakes. This move aims to ease tensions with fishermen after many complaints. The...

A Ugandan security boss wants a law to stop daytime drinking. The Minister for Security, Jim Katugugu Muhwezi, called for a new bylaw to regulate alcohol consumption nationwide. He spoke on Christmas Day at Kasoroza Church of Uganda in Rukungiri District, calling the drinking rate alarming...

South Sudanese immigrants are suing to keep their protected status. Four individuals and a non-profit organization filed a lawsuit in Boston federal court against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. They are challenging the termination of Temporary Protected Status for South Sudanese...

Uganda just slammed the brakes on Starlink gear at the border. The Uganda Revenue Authority issued an immediate restriction on importing and clearing Starlink satellite internet equipment. A customs memo from December 19 mandates that any shipment of this technology now needs an authorization...

A top Ugandan cop says a messy family feud has nothing to do with him. The Director of Criminal Investigations, Assistant Inspector General Tom Magambo, flatly denied any link to a property dispute between educationist Prof. Badru Kateregga and his wife, Jolly Shubaiha Kateregga. His name had...

A whole church leadership bench is clearing out in 2027. The Church of Uganda announced that its Archbishop, Stephen Samuel Kaziimba Mugalu, will retire on August 14 that year, along with six diocesan bishops. The church's communications officer, Sadiiki Adams, made the announcement on Christmas...

An electoral showdown in Rukungiri just got a Christmas Day sermon. The political fight in the municipality is superheated, with Henry Tumukunde facing a tough challenge from opposition candidate Ingrid Turinawe Kamateneti of the People's Front for Freedom. The whole race is tangled up with...

Malawi's music scene got hit with a gut punch. Five members of Eli Njuchi's Hive Band died in a wreck at Senzani in Ntcheu on the M1 road. They were heading to Lilongwe for his show. The dead are drummer Raphael Chitsonga, guitarist MacFarlane Banda, road manager Vincent Mkwinda, pianist Wilfred...

Some Zomba kids just swapped dead ends for paychecks. A group of young people, once stuck with no clear path forward, is now talking about how learning a trade changed everything. They finished skills training at the One For All Organization Technical College in Zomba. Their turnaround started...

Malawi's power boss just scored a legal win against the government. The High Court in Blantyre stopped a forced transfer of the Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi, or ESCOM, CEO Kamwamba Kumwenda. The government tried to move him to a teaching job at the Malawi University of Business and...

Kolisi flexes a complicated family holiday. The Springboks rugby captain, Siya Kolisi, posted photos and videos from a Christmas vacation on Alphonse Island with his siblings and his two kids. This came after the children had already done Christmas stuff with their mom, Rachel Kolisi. The former...

The internet is trying to yeet Nicki Minaj back to Trinidad. An online petition calling for the rapper's deportation has gone viral, racking up thousands of signatures in just hours. It cites her recent erratic behavior, specifically her alleged harassment of Beyoncé and Jay-Z, also known as the...

They gave her the full makoti treatment again, a decade later. Media personality Zandile Khumalo posted a video showing women from the Gumede family dressing her in traditional bridal attire, marking her continued acceptance as a daughter-in-law after ten years of marriage. She expressed deep...

Nicki Minaj got a legal threat for Christmas, and now they say she's banned from the Met Gala. Reports claim Roc Nation sent the rapper a cease and desist order on Christmas Day, telling her to stop mentioning Jay-Z, Beyonce, or the company itself. Following that, online gossip stated she was...

Dude lost his job and found his sense of humor. South African media personality Sol Phenduka made a sarcastic post about life after Kaya FM fired him, claiming times were tough in a written message on Christmas. The attached video told a different story, showing him casually getting ice cream...

They finally gave the Queen of Disco her due. Donna Summer was posthumously inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame at a ceremony in West Hollywood, an honor she always wanted for her writing. The event was hosted by songwriter Paul Williams, who called her one of the all-time greats. Her...

Well, that explains all the ghosting. The entire premise of dating apps is a lie, with most users not even being single. Research indicates a staggering 65 percent of people on these apps are already married or in a committed relationship. That fact alone breaks the whole system. These...

Influencer gets a rock for Christmas, and this one felt earned. Jordyn Woods is engaged to basketball player Karl-Anthony Towns, with the couple announcing it through romantic Instagram photos showing the proposal. The images captured the whole moment, from Towns on one knee to Woods showing off...

Gym bros, your prayers for a gains-giving menu have been answered. Chipotle rolled out its first-ever high-protein lineup in the US and Canada, basically just giving in to customer demands after some viral suggestions online. Their new stuff has protein counts hitting as high as 81 grams. The...

They're back to needing a calculator and a miracle. Zimbabwe's national team, the Warriors, is staring down another early exit after a 1-1 draw with Angola left them at the bottom of their group. They only have one point, forcing a must-win scenario in their final match against South Africa...