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Zimbabwe's central hospitals just got hooked up with some legit emergency room gear like fiber-optic video laryngoscopes and multi-parameter monitors, according to Dr. Jonah Kasule at Chitungwiza Central Hospital. The equipment drop also brought blood warmers, fluid infusion pumps, and syringe...

Zimbabwe came back from the RUFORUM Annual General Meeting in Gaborone feeling pretty good about itself after locking down some solid partnerships with other African universities. The summit brought together academic bigwigs and researchers to figure out how colleges can help fix the continent's...

Simeon Petrov got arrested during the Sofia protest chaos while carrying 30,000 leva in cash, but he says the police totally misunderstood the situation. Cops found the money with street names written on notes and assumed he was paying rioters, but Petrov claims those streets are where his...

Some dude named Iliyan Barzev got his license yanked after speed cameras caught him going over the limit in the emergency lane on Trakia highway, but his engine had seized up, and he was literally just trying to get off the road without causing a massive pileup. Traffic police in Stara Zagora...

Social psychologist Rosen Yordanov told Radio Focus that extremist groups linked to the president and sketchy oligarchs basically hijacked what started as a legitimate protest. He says right-wing Euro-Atlantic political parties are actually sabotaging eurozone entry despite their TikTok...

Drivers heading through the Blagoevgrad region had better brace themselves for some highway chaos. The Road Infrastructure Agency says a chunk of the Struma highway between the 132nd and 145th kilometer marks is getting patched up, and that means single-lane traffic with speeds capped at 90...

Interior Minister Daniel Mitov is facing lawmakers today to explain how police handled the massive budget protests in Sofia—both during and after the demonstrations. Mitov will walk deputies through how security was set up for the protest and the marches that followed. He's also expected to...

Unions and employers are sitting down today to hash out the details of the new budget process. The Finance Ministry has called everyone back for another meeting on Friday. Yesterday, parliament unanimously voted to pull the draft budget—a move that came after Monday's massive protests. The...

The forecast calls for overcast skies and fog across most of the country, with rain hitting the extreme west and northeast overnight. Temps will drop to between 2 and 7 degrees, with Sofia sitting around 3 degrees and the Black Sea coast staying warmer at 5 to 10 degrees. Daytime highs will...

Nassau Cruise Port just dropped $50,000 to help Caribbean maritime students, with half going toward general education funding and the other half specifically for kids who got wrecked by Hurricane Melissa. The company launched a new scholarship named after their CEO, Mike Maura Jr., and this...

A 48-year-old guy from Diego Martin got hit with seven charges after cops say he posted death threats on Senator Amery Browne's Facebook page. The dude allegedly wrote stuff about shooting the senator in public and sending people after his kids, plus he dropped a racial slur in there. Browne...

Caribbean Airlines is axing four routes and shutting down its Barbados hub operations after deciding the flights weren't making enough money. The carrier confirmed it's dropping service to Tortola and San Juan starting mid-January, and the Barbados-based planes and crew are getting moved back to...

Sandra Graham just got tapped to run the Jamaican Women Pinnacle Awards Committee for the next two years, and she's bringing over 40 years of government communications experience to the gig. The veteran consultant previously worked as press secretary for two Jamaican prime ministers, and she'll...

Uganda's election season started out weirdly chill in September when eight presidential candidates got nominated, with President Yoweri Museveni facing off against Robert Kyagulanyi (Bobi Wine) and six others. The Electoral Commission was hyped about the peaceful vibes, but that lasted about...

Justice Simon Byabakama laid down the law at Electoral Commission headquarters in Kampala, warning candidates and voters that Uganda's 2026 general elections will be tightly regulated. The EC chair confirmed that ballot printing is underway with both international and local companies, while...

Uganda's economy is basically stuck in neutral right now. The country's factory and power station price increases held at 1.2 percent through the latest annual period, but that flat line hides some sketchy stuff happening underneath. Producer prices keep dropping, and demand looks pretty weak...

Gold hit its highest price ever at over 4300 dollars per ounce back in October, and Uganda made 4.2 billion from exports during the last financial year. The problem is that the country has zero gold stockpiled, even though the central bank keeps saying it wants to start buying. Bank of Uganda...

ICC prosecutors confirmed Joseph Kony is still breathing somewhere in Central Africa, which basically kills off years of rumors about the LRA commander being dead. Senior trial lawyer Leonie Von Braun told reporters the court has intel proving he's alive, and they would have ditched the...

Frank Ntwali got slapped on a terrorism financing list by Rwanda's Financial Intelligence Centre this month, and the opposition leader says the whole thing is fake. The Rwanda National Congress chairman has been living in South Africa for over 20 years, but Kigali keeps going after him anyway...

Bishop Serverus Jjumba from Caritas Uganda told young people they need to stop having kids they can't take care of because vulnerable children keep flooding in asking for help. He dropped this at a fundraising dinner at Hotel Africana in Kampala, where organizers wanted 200 million shillings for...