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Opposition leader Mark Golding went off at a press conference and basically said the JLP government has no clue what's happening in western Jamaica after Hurricane Melissa wrecked the place. PNP reps claim relief distribution is messy and uncoordinated, with supplies sometimes going to people...

Sex workers operating on Port Henderson Road in Portmore are freaking out because they lost touch with coworkers who moved west to St James and Westmoreland chasing better money. The women relocated to spots like Mt Salem and Savanna-la-Mar but their phones went dark when Hurricane Melissa...

Former Miss World 1993 Lisa Hanna is catching heat on Instagram after posting videos from New York, where she gets dressed for business meetings. The 50-year-old Jamaican ex-politician shared clips that racked up over 13k likes, with one showing her topless in a long shirt before pulling on...

Rwanda just dropped the contraceptive access age from 18 down to 15 without needing parents to sign off, and activists are calling it a massive W even though the government catches heat for being authoritarian on other stuff. Teenage pregnancy sits at five percent there, but feminist groups...

World Bank officials showed up at the gender ministry and basically gave Uganda props for dropping the age requirement for elderly cash assistance from 80 down to 65. Regional director Daniel Dulitzky said this was a massive policy win and pushed Uganda to build a national registry so they can...

The East African Court of Justice threw out an appeal from environmental groups trying to stop the crude oil pipeline project over climate and human rights concerns. Judges said the case missed the 60-day filing deadline under regional laws and backed the earlier dismissal from 2023. Four...

EU chief Ursula von der Leyen gave The Observer an interview before the big Africa and Europe meeting in Angola, where she basically said both continents need each other more than ever despite the world getting messier since their first summit 25 years back. Brussels is pumping serious cash into...

Stats bureau dropped survey results showing citizens are way more confident about courts and prosecutors compared to seven years back, with trust jumping from somewhere in the 60s up past 80 percent for most legal institutions. The human rights commission basically doubled its approval rating...

Former Tororo Municipality lawmaker Sanjay Tanna is hanging up his political jersey and backing his kid, Shyam, for the parliamentary seat as an independent. The elder Tanna held the spot for two terms between 2006 and 2016 under NRM before stepping back, and he told supporters at a campaign...

Retired Supreme Court judge Esther Kisaakye is basically calling the tribunal investigating her a total sham and says Museveni set it up after she already bounced from the bench. She dropped a massive document laying out 25 reasons the whole thing is unconstitutional, pointing out she retired...

Amama Mbabazi is finally ready to spill the actual tea about the Kabamba barracks raid that kicked off the NRA bush war back in the 80s. The former prime minister dropped some correction receipts at the anniversary launch, saying 44 fighters attacked with just 27 guns instead of the 40 or 41...

Scholars who literally worked on Uganda's constitution are calling the whole thing cursed from day one because the process was basically rigged. Mwambutsya Ndebesa coordinated researchers for the Constituent Assembly and told everyone at Makerere that the thing got amended 119 times in just 10...

Doctors at Aga Khan are basically screaming that Uganda's diabetes problem is spiraling because everyone keeps crushing junk food and skipping the gym. The hospital said lifestyle garbage like obesity and ultra-processed snacks combined with booze and zero exercise is pushing cases higher, while...

Uganda's student association just told random youth groups to back off after some outfit called Sauti ya Vijana tried claiming they run things. Wilson Mugazhu and his crew held a presser saying UNSA answers to students only and warned people against getting bamboozled by wannabe pressure groups...

Uganda's aviation boss just wrapped up a regional meeting at Speke Resort, where she basically flexed about how the country crushed its latest safety audit and told neighbors they need to work together on making air travel less of a hassle. Olive Birungi Lumonya dropped stats showing Entebbe...

NUP is saying cops shot some guy in both legs while he was waving at Bobi Wine's motorcade rolling through Kayunga District, which just adds to the whole mess between opposition candidates and security forces during campaign season. Joel Ssenyonyi dropped footage showing supporters hauling the...

Bobi Wine is claiming the election commission and cops are basically rigging things against him while heading out to campaign stops in Kayunga, saying police have been tear-gassing his people and breaking up rallies without any real reason. He went after the EC chairman for staying quiet about...

Uganda's U17 squad absolutely demolished Djibouti 6-0 and punched their ticket to the semis after wrapping up group play with nine points and a massive goal differential. The Cubs banged in 20 goals across four matches while only letting two slip past them, which put them through as runners-up...

Uganda's netball squad kicked off their Celtic Cup run with a blowout against Namibia at the Emirates Arena, winning by 27 goals after absolutely dominating the second half. The She Cranes kept things tight early, but then flipped the switch and built a double-digit cushion by halftime before...

Doctors Without Borders just pulled out of a hospital in Darfur after RSF troops straight up executed one of their workers outside the facility and wounded four others. The group is refusing to send people back until the paramilitary goons promise they can actually do their jobs without getting...