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Mohamed Salah just wrapped up another assist for Liverpool against Brighton before heading to Morocco with Egypt's national squad, and South Africa, Angola, and Zimbabwe are basically sweating bullets because the guy might go nuclear at AFCON while trying to pump his transfer value before...

South Africa's taxi council in Limpopo is calling out fake patrol squads shaking down travelers near the Beitbridge border crossing. Chairman Ngwepe Lesiba Frans said these bogus crews stop private cars, force people into different vehicles, demand cash, and chase drivers in ways that get folks...

The energy regulator dropped off a bunch of sunscreen and protective gear for people with albinism after running charity golf tournaments in Bulawayo and Harare that pulled in over 16,000 dollars plus some local currency. ZERA's boss, Eddington Mazambani, said giving folks with albinism proper...

Zimplow just offloaded some property called Dagenham for 3.2 million bucks, and the company wants to pump that cash back into parts of the business that actually make money instead of sitting on real estate that does nothing. CEO Willem Swan told shareholders the deal lets them boost liquidity...

Zimbabwe's finance minister told local business owners to quit singling out Chinese entrepreneurs during a budget meeting in Bulawayo after some guy from the grain millers group wanted the government to crack down on foreign competition. Mthuli Ncube basically said calling out specific...

Harare dropped 879 smart water meters in Warren Park 1, and residents are apparently hyped because they finally get to pay for what they actually use instead of dealing with sketchy billing. The capital already got 20,000 meters from suppliers, and another 40,000 units are supposed to show up...

Zimbabwe's corruption watchdogs and government agencies kicked off a two-day workshop in Harare to crunch numbers for their annual SADC accountability report. The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission is running the show alongside the courts, prosecutors, police, and civil society groups like...

The ruling party's women's wing got together at headquarters in Harare to map out what they want to tackle next year, and Secretary Mabel Chinomona ran the session with national executives plus provincial heads from all ten regions. The group wants to review how the president's economic programs...

A mine shaft caved in near Pickstone Mine outside Chegutu, and rescue teams pulled out five bodies while more artisanal miners remain stuck underground. The local district coordinator confirmed the collapse happened at Chegutu-Alisha Mine, but he kept details pretty tight about what went down...

INTJ Software just dropped AudioBench for Mac, and the whole point is letting people wire up audio signal chains without touching any code. The company says everyone from total newbies to DSP nerds can drag modules around to build custom processing setups and watch what happens to the sound in...

Klevgrand dropped their wildest plugin yet, and Parrot basically chops up live audio into tiny bits before looping them through a step sequencer that can spit out anything from light groove tweaks to total digital chaos. The thing grabs sound on the fly, lets you mess with pitch and volume for...

A bunch of opposition party leaders from POLAD just announced they want back into Zanu PF after spending years outside the ruling party. The group's acting spokesperson, Welcome Shumba, told a crowd at party headquarters in Harare that 17 political outfits are ready to rejoin because they...

Zimbabwe's president is wrapping up the year with his final cabinet session at State House in Harare as the government shifts gears from its first national development plan to the next phase. The economy apparently hit 6.6 percent growth, and they just wrapped up their best wheat harvest ever at...

Econet Wireless Zimbabwe wants out of the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange, and the telco plans to break off its towers and real estate into a separate company called Econet Infrastructure Company Limited before listing that new entity on the US dollar-based Victoria Falls Stock Exchange instead. The...

Artists Rights Enforcement Corporation is going after Dionne Warwick in federal court, saying the 85-year-old legend is trying to dodge payments that could hit millions of dollars. The firm claims it set up the deal that let Doja Cat sample Walk On By for Paint the Town Red back in 2023, and it...

Mirelo, a Berlin startup, just closed a $41 million seed round from Index Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz to build AI models that generate sound effects for videos. The company was founded by CJ Simon-Gabriel and Florian Wenzel, who both did AI research at Amazon Web Services Labs before...

Uganda just threw a whole day-long workshop where almost 40 current and retired athletes got schooled on money management, business fundamentals, and keeping their heads straight after competitive careers wind down. Stanbic Business Incubator teamed up with Legends Marathon to run sessions...

Zimbabwe's opposition heavyweight Nelson Chamisa basically told the ruling party they can shove their constitutional amendments where the sun doesn't shine after ZANU-PF tried pushing through plans to keep President Emmerson Mnangagwa in office past his term limit. The former Citizens Coalition...

Uganda's police spokesperson, Rusoke Kituuma, told reporters his officers keep trying not to gas crowds but reminded everyone that cops have legal authority to break up rowdy political gatherings when safety gets sketchy. He confirmed security forces grabbed a priest recently after the military...

DFCU Bank showed up at the Best Farmers Awards 2025 to flex about its 11-year investment in Ugandan agriculture while the event handed out prizes to the country's top producers. Chief retail officer Annette Kiconco talked about how the sector employs most of the workforce and drives GDP, while...