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Young women in Matabeleland South are getting hammered by HIV at rates higher than anywhere else in Zimbabwe, and a health official is pointing straight at poverty as the main culprit. The National Aids Council guy for that province said broke girls are ending up in sketchy relationships with...

People in Nkulumane are telling wannabe politicians to ditch the party gear and campaign noise as they gear up for a special election to replace their dead representative, Desire Moyo. The local development committee chair, Andrew Ndlovu, said voters want actual progress instead of empty...

Bulawayo city council members are catching heat for obsessing over the town clerk's contract while their city falls apart around them. Christopher Dube's deal might get pushed all the way to 2030, even though Mayor David Coltart is against it and residents are pissed that basic services keep...

Norman Mapeza just signed a two-year contract to coach Scottland FC, the freshly minted league champs who just canned their title-winning manager because apparently winning isn't enough when you've got bottomless pockets. The 53-year-old legend inked the deal at sponsor Wicknell Chivayo's fancy...

CAPS United just brought in Takesure Chiragwi to run their squad after they limped to ninth place last season. The guy's coming from Ngezi Platinum, where he had a rough time that ended with the league suspending him and hitting his wallet for smacking one of his players. He'll be working with...

The NetOne boss who got hauled in on fraud charges just got cut loose after a magistrate said prosecutors had zero evidence tying him to anything shady. Raphael Mushanawani walked out of court after his legal team convinced the judge that anti-corruption investigators literally didn't understand...

Guinea-Bissau's military just installed General Horta Inta-a as their new junta boss after booting out President Umaro Sissoco Embaló following a sketchy election where both candidates claimed they won. The deposed leader bounced to Senegal on a government-chartered flight while the army banned...

Workers at the KP Snacks factory in Billingham voted to strike after management dumped extra responsibilities on them without bumping their wages. The GMB union says 85 percent of process operators backed the walkout, and the plant cranks out Hula Hoops plus McCoy's and Pom-Bears. KP responded...

Revolut just hit a 75 billion dollar valuation after letting employees dump shares to some massive investors like Nvidia's venture arm, and the fintech company basically leapfrogged Barclays in terms of what it's worth on paper. The secondary sale let workers offload up to a fifth of their...

JP Morgan just dropped plans for a massive office tower in Canary Wharf that will cost around three billion pounds and fit 12,000 workers when it finishes construction. The building gets designed by Foster and Partners, and it becomes the biggest office space in Britain when completed...

The International Court of Justice dropped an advisory opinion saying countries have to actually follow through on Paris Agreement promises, and former UN climate guy David Boyd thinks this changes everything at the negotiating table. The ICJ shot down the argument from rich nations that climate...

A UN specialist is pushing Portugal to beef up protections for people with albinism after finding the country lacks targeted legislation for this group. Muluka-Anne Miti-Drummond wrapped up her visit and pointed out that Portugal needs better data tracking across healthcare, schools, and job...

Georgia's acting district attorney just yeeted the election interference case against Trump and his buddies by saying the whole thing got too messy to prosecute. Peter Skandalakis filed paperwork claiming the legal hurdles would drag this out until at least 2031, and he wasn't convinced the RICO...

Amnesty International dropped reports saying governments and big fashion companies are making bank while garment workers get screwed out of basic union rights across India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. The organization checked out 20 factories and found bosses constantly threatening...

Human Rights Watch is telling Thailand to back off from prosecuting Murray Hunter, an Australian reporter who got slapped with criminal defamation charges for trash-talking Malaysia's Communications and Multimedia Commission. The rights group says Thailand is basically doing Malaysia's dirty...

Browne Jacobson partner Bridget Tatham is taking over as president of the Forum of Insurance Lawyers, which represents about 8,000 legal professionals across the UK and Ireland. She's been grinding at the firm since 2002 and handles gnarly cases involving occupational disease, plus brain and...

Law firms are throwing cash at fund finance lawyers because the market's about to explode from 1.2 trillion to over 2.5 trillion by the end of the decade. Gibson Dunn grabbed Duncan McKay from Fried Frank to run their fund finance group in New York, and Paul Hastings snagged Jennifer Passagne...

The UK legal industry just dropped its nominations for the Women and Diversity in Law Awards, and 250 people, plus firms, made the cut. Nominees range from junior lawyers to heavy hitters competing for Woman of the Year, and they need to submit their actual entries by early December for the...

Chido Dzinotyiwei is building Vambo AI to get African languages into artificial intelligence systems, and she's making sure ChiShona, IsiNdebele, and IsiZulu get proper representation in the algorithms that run business and communication tech. The Zimbabwean entrepreneur grew up bouncing between...

A filmmaker from Costa Rica and Catalonia named Kokopelli is running this platform called ATAEC that links up artists fighting climate change across different continents. She's been working with Bulawayo artist Fisani Nkomo and indigenous business owner Makhosi Mahlangu from Lupane, and they're...