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Political analyst Arman Babikyan told Bulgarian National Radio that Peevski and Borisov are still playing hot potato with the budget and who actually runs things. He thinks the BSP leader's recent statement was basically Peevski sending messages to Borisov through back channels, since nobody...

PP-DB reps told journalists the draft budget needs to get pulled back. DSB leader Atanas Atanasov said whoever submitted this thing has to yank it during their morning meetup, then do the whole legal song and dance with the Tripartite before bringing it back for parliament's first reading. Asen...

Vasil Pandov from the Continue Change-Democratic Bulgaria coalition is taking Slavi Trifonov to court after the There Is Such a People party boss accused him of stirring up violence during protests. Pandov said both Trifonov and Delyan Peevski are running coordinated smear campaigns against him...

Four municipalities in Blagoevgrad are still under disaster status after heavy rain caused rivers to jump their banks and trash infrastructure plus private property. Sandanski got hit the hardest with villages like Novo Delchevo, Dzhigurovo, and Leshnitsa dealing with flooded homes and streets...

Former economy minister Nikolay Vassilev told bTV the 2026 budget is not actually dead but sitting in limbo while politicians hash out revisions. He said Bulgaria keeps pretending to run 3% deficits but really starts at 5% and ends up hitting 8%, and the country needs to ditch deficit spending...

Professor Kurtev founded Bulgaria's colon cancer screening program, and he basically said people will show up for testing when they get clear info about what it does and why it matters. The problem is the government has not committed resources or political will to make screening happen at scale...

A bunch of SUVs with Pleven plates just shut down Dondukov Boulevard by the Opera House, and the whole area turned into a parking lot. Trams are stacked up in both directions, and cars are gridlocked because the vehicles blocking traffic are apparently heavy enough that cops cannot move them...

The Bulgarian Socialist Party is threatening to bail on the government if anyone messes with the social benefits packed into next year's budget. Ivan Takov from BSP confirmed the party will walk if the income policy gets touched after GERB leader Boyko Borisov yanked the 2026 budget following...

Former Bulgarian president Rosen Plevneliev said Boyko Borisov made the smart call by pulling the 2026 budget after protests hit the Triangle of Power area. The ex-leader watched the whole thing go down and noticed most of the crowd was legit young people showing up for real reasons, even though...

Bulgaria is about to get slammed with one of the wildest winter stretches in 15 years, and weather nerds at Meteo Balkans are pointing at the polar vortex split as the main culprit. Early parts of the month are looking dry but cold, with fog sitting heavy over the plains and temps barely...

Bulgaria's parliament is about to vote on whether to accept another EUR 250 million loan from the European Investment Bank, and the cash is basically going straight into covering the country's share of EU-funded projects. The money gets split across transport infrastructure, environmental...

ITU and Senegal's telecom regulator just locked in a deal at the big telecoms conference in Baku to help young women get into digital commerce. Cosmas Zavazava from ITU and Dahirou Thiam from ARTP signed off on the partnership, which sets up training programs and digital tools for women...

UNICEF and TECNO Mobile are back for round two of their Learning Passport thing in Nigeria, and this time they're scaling up teacher training across six states. The whole point is getting educators comfortable with digital tools so kids can actually learn something useful instead of just staring...

Mastercard teamed up with AXIAN Group to roll out virtual cards, physical cards, and merchant payment tools across Tanzania, Madagascar, Togo, Comoros, and Senegal through the Mixx and MVola apps. The setup lets people pay from their phones, check live exchange rates, and cancel sketchy...

South Sudan's ICT Ministry is trying to make mobile and internet bills cheaper after sitting down with Zain's CEO to hash out why communication costs are so high in the country. Minister Ateny Wek Ateny basically said affordable internet matters for schools, businesses, and getting people online...

Botswana Telecommunications Corporation just connected 61 villages that were basically off the grid, and it's part of a massive government push to wire up over 500 rural spots under the SmartBots Village Connectivity project. These places had almost zero broadband infrastructure or even reliable...

CadRemit just scored an International Money Transfer Operator license from the Central Bank of Nigeria, and that puts them in the club with other CBN-regulated payment operators. The fintech company can handle inbound international transfers for Nigerians getting cash sent from overseas, which...

The Port of Douala just locked in a deal with INNOVENDI to roll out hybrid 4G/5G networks and Smart Port tech across its facilities in Bonabéri. Cyrus NGO'O from PAD and Joel MONEFONG from INNOVENDI signed off on the partnership, which gets fully funded by the private side without government...

Zimbabwe just hit foreign tech companies with a new withholding tax that's about to make your Bolt rides and Starlink internet more expensive. Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube dropped this in the budget to replace the old VAT setup, and it covers everything from ride-hailing apps to satellite...

AMD has a couple of new workstation GPUs showing up in driver files, and they're called the Radeon AI Pro R9700S and R9600D. Driver mentions usually mean hardware is close to shipping, but AMD hasn't said anything official yet. The R9700S looks like the beefier option for mid-range workstation...