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Trump went off on social media, saying he wants to completely halt migration from developing nations after some Afghan guy got blamed for killing a National Guard member in DC. The president claimed hundreds of thousands of Somali refugees basically took over Minnesota and said he plans to yank...

Zimbabwe just slapped a 15-percent withholding tax on offshore digital payments starting next year, and Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube said it fixes the problem of foreign platforms dodging local taxes while homegrown businesses get hit with full VAT charges. Banks and mobile money services will...

Former Special Prosecutor Martin Amidu dropped a lengthy tribute honoring Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings after her sudden death, calling her the only real female hero to come out of Ghana's revolutionary period. He praised her fierce loyalty to her late husband, Jerry Rawlings, and credited her...

Guyana just shipped out its second batch of hurricane relief gear headed for Jamaica after Melissa tore through the island and left families scrambling for shelter. The MV Falk loaded up with enough materials to rebuild 200 roofs plus mattresses, water tanks, and rice before pulling out from the...

Trinidad and Tobago's prime minister said the US is setting up radar equipment in Tobago to track drug trafficking and boost airport security after she walked back her earlier claim that all American Marines had left the country. Kamla Persad-Bissessar admitted some troops stuck around to help...

Jamaica pulled in 32,000 cruise tourists across eight ships after Hurricane Melissa hammered the island, and Tourism Minister Edmund Bartlett told stakeholders in Ocho Rios that another wave of the same size is hitting next week. The government is hyped because cruise lines kept their routes...

The New Democratic Party absolutely demolished the Unity Labour Party by grabbing 14 out of 15 seats in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and Dr. Godwin Friday just got sworn in as the new prime minister after ending Ralph Gonsalves' 25-year run. The outgoing leader only managed to keep his seat...

The feds hit two guys from Guyana with charges over a scheme that allegedly cost their government around 50 million dollars through dodgy gold exports. Nazar Mohamed and his son Azruddin ran a gold business that shipped product through Miami and Dubai, but prosecutors say they gamed the system...

The Uganda Cancer Institute just dropped some concerning stats about prostate cancer, which is increasing among men and becoming the top diagnosis in that category, while also ranking as a major killer. Dr Fred Okuku from UCI said guys are showing up way too late when the disease has already...

Uganda just opened a massive starch processing facility in Namasagali that cost around 50 million bucks, and President Museveni showed up to cut the ribbon with his wife. Dr Matthias Magoola built the thing under Dei BioPharma on over 5,000 acres, and it turns cassava into pharmaceutical-grade...

Police and Bobi Wine's camp are throwing completely different stories about what went down at campaign rallies in Iganga District. Cops say opposition supporters were chucking rocks at officers and wrecking patrol vehicles during events for presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi, and they...

Tax authorities grabbed one of the big players in Kampala's sketchy phone market after busting a massive shipment that could pull over 500 million shillings when they finish tallying up dodged taxes and fines. The haul turned up 4,371 devices ranging from basic Nokias to Samsung Galaxy units...

A fire ripped through a furniture shop and wooden lodge in Kajjubi Zone over in Ndeeba, and three people got burned beyond recognition after getting trapped inside when the blaze spread from the workshop. Firefighters showed up and stopped it from eating up the whole neighborhood, but the damage...

Trump just dropped orders for a massive review of green card holders from 19 countries after some Afghan guy who came in under a Biden-era program allegedly carried out a shooting in DC. The list hits places like Sudan, Somalia, Congo, and Burundi, with the White House saying they want to audit...

Uganda finally got one back against Tanzania after dropping their last two matchups, and they did it with a solid bowling performance that had their rivals folding for just 54 runs at the Asian Institute of Technology Ground. The Victoria Pearls made the chase look easy even after losing three...

The EU just put the brakes on 156 million euros headed to Tanzania for 2026, and they're not playing around after what went down during the latest election cycle. President Samia Suluhu Hassan supposedly grabbed 98% of the votes while her party swept everything, but the opposition called it...

A tribunal in Mbarara just dropped compensation rulings for two families whose relatives got killed by cops over a decade ago, and the government's on the hook for 160 million shillings total. The first family scored 80 million after their son, a motorcycle taxi driver, caught three bullets...

UPPC Entebbe and Kitara both grabbed wins on the road, and they're sitting on 13 points each, trailing SC Villa by just a couple. UPPC went to BUL's spot and put up a 2-0 result after Ambrose Kigozi bagged two goals in the second half. That loss made things worse for BUL, which just had its...

Uganda kept rolling at the Celtic Cup with another big win over Northern Ireland at the Emirates Arena in Glasgow. The She Cranes put up 72 points against their opponents' 46, and captain Mary Nuba said the team wanted to come out hot from the jump and basically did exactly that. They grabbed a...

South Sudan is hemorrhaging around 5 tons of gold every year through smuggling routes that run into Uganda and Kenya before the metal ends up in Dubai refineries, and a SWISSAID report says the entire operation bypasses any official oversight or tax collection. Tens of thousands of miners are...