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Zimbabwean reporter Blessed Mhlanga went back behind bars Wednesday because the judge needed extra time to decide about key evidence. His defense team asked for videos and electronic recordings the police used when they charged him with stirring up public violence. They believe these materials...

Jacob Mudenda, who leads Zimbabwe's Parliament, rejected plans for coal mining inside Hwange National Park. A Chinese company named Sunny Yi Feng had asked permission to search for coal in the Sinamatella area of the park. Mudenda suggested they find another location since plenty of coal exists...

South African businessman Patrice Motsepe grabbed another term as head of African football yesterday. Nobody challenged him at the big meeting in Cairo, Egypt. Motsepe runs the Confederation of African Football and will stay boss for four more years. His family controls one of Africa's major...

South Africa happily backed a Malawi court decision yesterday that ordered Shepherd and Mary Bushiri to come back and face criminal charges. The pair ran away from South Africa in 2020 after courts let them out on bail during their fraud and rape trials. Nobody knows exactly how they escaped the...

Congo plans to meet with M23 rebels for peace talks next Tuesday. The Angolan government announced yesterday that both sides agreed to meet on March 18. They'll talk directly to each other in Luanda, the capital of Angola. President João Lourenço from Angola will serve as the peace broker...

Zimbabwe received great news when Knowledge Musona agreed to play soccer for them again. The star player stepped away from international games back in 2022 but just decided to help his country try for its first World Cup appearance ever. He brings valuable skills from his current team...

Police caught four men from different countries trying to steal gold from Chinese smugglers. The courts charged these guys Tuesday with planning to rob someone carrying gold across the border. The group included a man from Singapore, one from China, and two guys from Sierra Leone. They stood...

Missing environmentalist Nadia Vongai Mabvirakare turned up alive on March 10, 2025. People walking by found her scared and hurt in Dangamvura, Mutare. Rights activist Abigail Mupambi shared this news Tuesday. Mabvirakare had vanished five days earlier during her work on a big tree project. Her...

Police seized 3,900 kilograms of industrial hemp from a warehouse in Msasa, Harare, on March 9. They arrested three people during the raid at Ameyang Investments on Citroen Road. The national police spokesman, Commissioner Paul Nyathi, said these people face charges of unlawful possession...

Justice Minister Kubayi told parliament that South Africa has 32,557 sex criminals on the national registry. Courts might add another 10,456 names soon. The government planned to share this list publicly last month on February 28. Legal rules forced officials to wait because the Sexual Offences...

Angola wants to set up face-to-face talks between Congo and the M23 rebels backed by Rwanda. These meetings might happen within days. The Congo government has always said no to talking with M23 before. We still don't know if they'll show up this time. A person who speaks for Congo's president...

Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II tells his lawyers to sue Land Minister Sam Mayanja about Kaazi land claims. Christopher Bwanika, the Buganda attorney general, slams Mayanja for telling officials to shut down the Buganda Land Board, which runs the king's property. Bwanika calls these moves illegal and...

Soldiers beat up National Unity Platform (NUP) officials and reporters during their visit to a Nameere home in Kawempe North. The team went there because someone told them people inside were marking ballots before election day. David Lewis Rubongoya from NUP learned about this possible cheating...

The new Dune game hits your screens on May 20. Funcom just put out a video that shows off the massive planet Arrakis. They call it Dune: Awakening and it marks the first time players can team up in an open-world survival game based on this famous sci-fi setting. The game takes inspiration from...

Samsung made good progress with their new 2 nm Gate-All-Around process last month, according to industry insiders. After they reportedly scrapped an older 3 nm project late last year, the South Korean team likely started working extra hard. People thought the Exynos 2500 processor would use that...

Intel just hit a big milestone with its 18A chip technology. According to a LinkedIn post by Intel manager Pankaj Marria, they started making test wafers for their customers to check out. This marks version 1.0 of their design kit, which customers already use to test custom chips. Employees...

ASUS brings many AI solutions to CloudFest 2025. They showcase equipment with Intel Xeon 6 processors, NVIDIA GPUs, and AMD EPYC chips. Their display includes software platforms that work with these machines. ASUS aims to provide complete AI systems for companies that need easy setup from edge...

8BitDo made a new Bluetooth controller that looks like the classic N64 design. They fixed the shape to feel better in your hands during long play sessions. The stick uses hall-effect technology with the same gate pattern and rubber cap as before. This ends the problem of loose sticks that break...

Over 700 games work with RTX tech, with new titles adding NVIDIA DLSS, Reflex, and ray-traced effects every week. Players experience better PC gaming on GeForce RTX systems. DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation appears in more than 100 games and apps, making it spread faster than any previous...

GeForce NOW added a bunch of Blizzard games to their cloud service. You can play these games anywhere on the Internet. The lineup includes Heroes of the Storm, Warcraft Rumble, plus three games from the Warcraft Remastered series. These makeup part of eleven fresh games hitting the platform...