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Sudanese refugee women based in Uganda are begging African leadership to step in and stop the bloodbath back home, where sexual violence has become a tactical weapon against civilians. Rayan Abdallah Mohammed from Darfur spoke at an International Conference on the Great Lakes Region workshop in...

Burundi says the AFC/M23 rebels lobbed explosives over the border into Chibitoke, and Foreign Minister Edouard Bizimana is not having it. The spillover happened right after regional peace talks wrapped up in Washington, where Burundian President Évariste Ndayishimiye signed an accord but warned...

Four people died when three cars slammed into each other on the B1 highway about 33 kilometers south of Otjiwarongo after rain made the road slick. A sedan lost control and veered into oncoming traffic, hitting a pickup truck head-on, before a Corolla rear-ended the sedan hard. The victims were...

Simonis Storm economist Almandro Jansen says rental costs in Namibia are cooling slightly to 4.8% annually, but major cities like Windhoek, Swakopmund, and Walvis Bay still face serious affordability problems because new housing supply barely moves, land development drags, and construction...

A key witness who spilled the beans at the Madlanga Commission got gunned down in Brakpan with his family watching, and political parties are losing it over the total failure to keep him safe. Marius van der Merwe had recently testified against suspended Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Police Department...

A group of 17 Western embassies in Tanzania is pushing authorities to hand over bodies from post-election violence to families and free political prisoners. The missions claim credible evidence points to extrajudicial killings, forced disappearances, and hidden corpses after President Samia...

Flex Commodities out of Dubai just fired up bunker fuel operations at Walvis Bay in Namibia through a partnership with GAC Investment CC called Flex GAC Namibia. The move is part of their West Africa expansion play and gives the port another refueling stop for ships cruising the South Atlantic...

Scammers are weaponizing AI to pull off pig-butchering schemes, which are basically long-con frauds where they fake friendships or romantic relationships before draining victims financially. Standard Bank Namibia compliance head Roxzaan Witbooi warns that these predators slide into DMs on social...

A bunch of economists dropped a new think tank called the Namibia Institute for Economic Policy because they say the country keeps fumbling its natural resource advantages. Co-founder Rowland Brown pointed out that minerals, fish, wildlife, and fresh oil and gas discoveries have not actually...

Namcor partnered up with ReconAfrica and BW Energy to drill the Kavango West 1X exploration well on petroleum exploration license 73, and they hit paydirt with oil and gas discoveries in the Otavi carbonate formation. The well pulled roughly 400 meters of hydrocarbon section with 64 net meters...

Gandja Iyambo took over as mayor of Okahao Town Council and said the group will stick to honesty, teamwork, and getting stuff done while keeping communication open across party lines. He told councillors to drop the ego trips and work together instead of letting political differences mess up...

Martha Imalwa just got tapped to keep running Namibia's prosecuting authority for another year after her term wrapped up, and President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah made the call based on what the Judicial Service Commission recommended. She has been holding down the prosecutor general spot since...

Swapo party members grabbed the top spots at Katima Mulilo Town Council after Kabende Kabende and Charity Matongo-Mabuku got sworn in as mayor and deputy mayor by magistrate Davy Kambinda. The management committee ended up stacked with Swapo people, while opposition councillors from the National...

A Namibian rally driver lost his appeal after getting convicted for six murders tied to a crash that killed three German tourists and three of his own passengers near Henties Bay. Jandré Dippenaar got 15 years behind bars when the Swakopmund Regional Court found him guilty of murder instead of...

Namdia and Namibian cops teamed up after thieves walked off with N$349 million worth of diamonds from the company's Windhoek office during an armed heist. Interim CEO Lelly Usiku said the partnership fixes security holes across handling, storage, and transport while getting both sides to share...

Rheecious Isaac Luweya from Chichiri Secondary School in Blantyre took first place at the 54th International Letter Writing Competition held at Likangala Secondary School in Zomba, beating out Allan Nkhoma from Likangala and Favour Kalirani from Loyola Jesuit in Kasungu. MACRA acting director...

African Parks just handed over a K122-million health post to Mzimba District in the Mgoza area under Traditional Authority Khosolo, and people there were basically hiking 24 kilometers to get basic medical help before this was dropped. Official David Nangoma said keeping communities healthy...

Malawi gave out awards to businesses backing Vision 2063 during a ceremony in Lilongwe that tried to hype up private-sector investment as the backbone of national development plans. Secretary for Industrialization Wiskes Nkombezi said the government needs companies to keep putting money into the...

Parliament shut down after a five-week run where opposition leader Simplex Chithyola Banda basically roasted the DPP government for fumbling the economy and dodging his questions after President Peter Mutharika's big speech. He went after them for dragging their feet on farm supplies during...

Collins Mtika from Malawi Red Cross Society is fighting back after officials tossed his complaint against Susan Thindwa, who won a Council Member spot for the Mzuzu Division. He claims she never explained what happened to over MK300,000 from a flag campaign, and he says that should have blocked...