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The Warriors' coach is already doing the math after a brutal opening loss. Zimbabwe's national team boss, Marian Marinica, says they need to grab four points from their next two games to have any shot at the knockout rounds. This comes after they fell to Egypt two to one in Agadir, a match where...

A whole family is clinging to trees on a submerged river island right now, and the official response appears to be a shrug. Five people have been stuck on the Thekwane River in Ndolwane, near Plumtree, since Sunday. They were trying to get home after harvesting mopane worms, using a donkey cart...

Another brutal morning on the Harare to Mutare road. A massive Benz truck smashed head-on into a Nissan Note near the 119-kilometer marker. Police confirm three people are dead, all of them in the smaller car. The driver and two others in the Nissan died right there at the scene. A fourth person...

Unreal. The absolute gall of these people. Parliament dropped almost four hundred grand in public money, specifically three hundred seventy two thousand and change, to renovate the private Borrowdale house of Senate President Mabel Chinomona. This was not for official business. This was for her...

Just when you think local government cannot get more dysfunctional, we get a masterclass in grift. Paramedics for the Harare City Council are under a microscope for allegedly stealing ambulance fees. The basic charge for a city ambulance ride is thirty U.S. dollars. These crews are supposed to...

Of course, a major agri-scheme gets busted because someone finally did a site visit. A thirty-year-old Harare man, Blessing Benhura, is sitting in jail until next January over a wild fertilizer and seed scam targeting the Agricultural Rural Development Authority, known as ARDA. Prosecutors say...

Just when you think municipal corruption cannot get any more blatant. The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission, ZACC, is apparently looking into the Kwekwe City Council. The issue is vendor money that seems to have vanished into thin air. The mayor there, Albert Zinhanga, confirmed the probe...

Here we go again. The human cryptocurrency that is Wicknell Chivayo is back on the feed, this time playing philanthropic sugar daddy. The controversial businessman, known for his flashy giveaways to ZANU-PF allies, just dropped a massive gift on former ZTV news anchor Oscar Pambuka. The haul...

A Zimbabwe radio station called ZiFM Stereo had to clarify a whole thing after their show The Rush, hosted by MisRed, did some audience vote called the Rush Awards. The vote named opposition figure Fadzayi Mahere the overall winner. This did not go over well with some people online, specifically...

A Zimbabwean rights activist posted pictures of huge piles of lithium bags ready for China, asking if his country is actually the biggest donor to Beijing. Farai Maguwu, who runs the Centre for Natural Resource Governance, showed minerals staged for export from Kamativi in Matabeleland North. He...

President Museveni called the new Hoima City Stadium a major win for the country's economic planning and sports future. At the opening event, he credited the project's success to careful strategy and local involvement, specifically thanking the family of the late Rujumba for providing the land...

Meat costs in the capital are ticking upward for the holidays, but not by much. At the main city abattoir, beef is going for around fourteen thousand shillings a kilo, just a thousand or two more than recent weeks. That is a lot cheaper than the wild price jumps seen last Christmas, when...

Cops in Nakasongola are looking for a driver who killed two people and took off. The victims were riding a red Bajaj Boxer motorcycle along the road near the army barracks when a faster vehicle smashed into them from behind. Both men died right there. Police named them as David Semanda, who was...

A government minister is pushing for a calm holiday and election season. Princess Hellen Namutamba, the Tourism and Heritage Minister for the Busoga region, told people to celebrate Christmas peacefully and stay united. She also happens to be part of the team mobilizing support for President...

A prominent religious leader is pushing a message of calm and careful behavior during the holidays and the coming election cycle. Dr. Moses Odong, who heads the National Fellowship of Born Again Pentecostal Churches, told people to drive safely and focus on family time. He framed life itself as...

A fintech company called NALA just got the green light from Uganda's central bank, picking up two key payments licenses. This gives them three total approvals in the country now, putting them in a small club of operators allowed to work deep inside the national payment system under official...

A Ugandan high court just threw out a case trying to claim land from the national Muslim council. Justice Isah Sserunkuma in Masindi dismissed the suit because the people bringing it, led by a guy named Francis Tuhwerize, had zero paperwork to back up their story about buying the property. They...

NUP leader Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu is promising to give people their lake back. At a rally in Busaabala, he told supporters a future government under him would reopen public access to Lake Victoria and its landing sites for local communities, which he says have been taken away. He...

The Christmas rush in downtown Kampala is a story of two totally different scenes. On one side, transport is absolutely booming. Fares out of the city's bus parks have jumped by at least ten thousand shillings as everyone tries to get to their villages, with extra vehicles not even meeting the...

The national exam board is warning schools about scammers. Uganda National Examinations Board, or UNEB, says people pretending to be on its security committee are targeting head teachers and school directors. These fraudsters are asking for cash, promising they can bump up student grades or get...