news

The Brikama Area Council gave money to help people in the West Coast Region. They shared 28 million dalasi between 28 different areas. Each area will receive one million dalasi this year, which is more than last year's amount of five hundred thousand. The Council Chairman, Yankuba Darboe...

Two important groups in The Gambia joined hands to help the country make more money. The Arab-Gambia Islamic Bank and the Gambia Revenue Authority met in Banjul last Thursday to work together. The head of the Revenue Authority, Mr Yankuba Darboe, is happy about this teamwork. He said that when...

A court has given a man named Abubacarr Jarra a very long punishment. He will spend ten years in prison because he did something mean with private pictures of a woman. Jarra took a phone belonging to a woman named Awa Sumareh. He found private pictures of Awa on the phone and shared them with...

A special art show took place at Alliance Francaise in Banjul. Two talented artists, Enora Lalet from France and Lena Nian from The Gambia made beautiful pictures of five Gambian women. The artists lived and worked together for a month in a special house called the Musa Ngum Artists' House...

Zimbabwe is taking big steps to fight against medicines that don't work anymore. These medicines used to help sick people and animals, but they have stopped working because people used them incorrectly. Many people died in 2019 because medicines couldn't fight their infections. The country...

Many people came to say goodbye to Sam Nujoma at a sports field in Eenhana. They wanted to remember their first president at a special service. Thomas Mathews traveled far from his home in Tsumeb. He spent two days going to different places where people remembered Mr Nujoma. Yesterday, he went...

Sophia Shaningwa from the Swapo party shared special memories about Sam Nujoma in his village, Etunda. She remembered meeting him last October when he asked her to keep the party safe. He wanted people to stay together because some others wanted the Swapo to lose their power. She promised to do...

Many people from Namibia must stay in prisons far away from home. Right this moment, sixty-nine Namibians live in prisons across southern Africa because they broke different laws. At the same time, Namibian prisons hold 465 people from other countries. Most of these people come from nearby...

A hospital in Oshakati told their doctors and nurses they can't use their phones when they work. The person in charge, Mr Ruben Kanime, made this rule because he thinks phones make workers spend less time helping sick people. Mr Kanime wants phones used only for very important things at the...

The government wants to help schools by making new money rules. Teachers need good pay, but schools also need books and other things to help children learn. Right now, the government spends most of its school money on paying teachers, which means there isn't much left for important things like...

Many people came to say goodbye to Sam Nujoma at Andimba Toivo ya Toivo Airport in Ondangwa. Mr Nujoma was the first president of Namibia, and people loved him very much. His body traveled from Windhoek to his home village, Etunda, in the Omusati region. People arrived at the airport very early...

A man named Innocent Nyahodza worked for a company in Harare that sells food and cleaning supplies. His job required him to collect money from people who bought these things from the company. The company trusted him to manage their money, but something went wrong. Between January and February...

The leaders of South Africa couldn't agree on their big-money plan for 2025, which worried many people. They had to change the date when they would tell everyone about this plan. Mr Enoch Godongwana was supposed to talk about how South Africa would spend its money on Wednesday at 2 o'clock. The...

Zimbabwe wants to help make our world cleaner and healthier by using special money called green bonds. These green bonds work like normal money, but they can only be used to build things that help the environment. This includes making clean energy from the sun and wind or building houses that...

A special group of people said a music star named A$AP Rocky did nothing wrong. The people looked at a fight he had with another person in 2021. When they told him he was free, Rocky jumped into the crowd and hugged many people. Rocky said thank you to the people who helped save his life...

Today, people in Zimbabwe celebrate their young people. The special day helps everyone remember how important young citizens are for making the country better. The day happens every year on February 21. President Mnangagwa will meet with many young people in Bulawayo. More than 20,000 young...

A teacher named Irene worked at a school far away in Zimbabwe. She wanted to leave because the school had no power. She felt bad asking people to charge her phone, so at night, she used candles to see in her house. Everything changed when the school received solar power. Irene decided to stay...

Russia wants to make December 14 a special day. They asked the United Nations to remember people who suffered when other countries took over their lands. Many countries in Africa had tough times when foreign countries ruled them. Russia helped these countries become free. Russia cares about...

A religious leader named Madzibaba Ishmael wanted his friends to speak in court before he did. The judges said no, which upset him. He asked a bigger court to help him because he thought everyone had the right to let others speak first. The government workers disagreed with Madzibaba Ishmael...

A group tried to stop some people from buying a big sugar company called Tongaat Hulett. The group asked a special court in Durban to help them. The court said no and told them they would need to pay money to bring this case. The people who wanted to buy Tongaat belong to a team called Vision...