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The district boss in Kabale came back to his office and found it literally locked with signs telling him to bounce, which kicked off a massive fight between him and the local chairman. Ronald Mutegeki is catching heat from Nelson Nshangabasheija over calling meetings without permission and...

Somalia's getting hammered by another massive drought and the UN is basically sounding the alarm that millions of people are about to run out of food. After the rains failed four years straight, water sources dried up across Puntland and other regions, forcing families to bail to camps while the...

Uganda's legal education system is getting a massive shakeup after officials announced exam results and confirmed plans to split up how lawyers get trained and tested. About 1,578 people passed the bar entrance test out of 2,277 who showed up, but the training center can only handle 1,500 spots...

Uganda and Kenya just had their first Joint Border Commission meeting since 2019, with officials from both sides sitting down in Jinja to hash out trade bottlenecks and security stuff at their shared crossings. The two countries do over $1.2 billion in yearly business together, but people keep...

Centenary Bank teamed up with Good Forests Foundation and local government to drop 5,000 fruit and timber trees around Kasese District as part of their climate push. The bank already hit 60,000 trees planted countrywide this year and wants to reach 70,000 total by next year. They also threw 60...

Uganda's agriculture minister Frank Tumwebaze told people to chill about arguing over what to call the famous long-horned cattle that both his country and Rwanda claim. The beef started after some online users went hard, saying the cows with horns stretching over two meters belong exclusively to...

Uganda just scored a massive W as Donald Rukare became the first African ever to run Commonwealth Sport after getting elected during their General Assembly over in Glasgow. The guy already heads up the Uganda Olympic Committee and Commonwealth Games Uganda, bringing over three decades of...

URA just handed Buhimba United Saints an absolute beatdown with a 7 to 3 thrashing at Hamz Stadium under new boss Edward Golola. Joseph Ssemujju got things rolling with a sick solo goal, Nelson Senkatuka banged in a free kick, and Denis Luzige Kisiriko made it three before halftime. Buhimba...

UDA locked down another ward seat when 23-year-old Vincent Kiplimo Rutto crushed his opponents in the Chemundu/Kapng'etuny race. The kid whose dad was the previous MCA before dying pulled in almost 4,000 votes, while his nearest competition barely scraped together a couple of hundred...

UDA's Mpusia Amos pulled off a win in the Purko Ward race after the previous guy, Simon Saitoti, died earlier this year. He grabbed 2,805 votes while his main challenger, Sanare from DCP, got 1,522 and ODM's Naikuni managed just 298. Turnout hit over 80 percent with nearly 3,900 people showing...

One guy already won his seat before anyone else even started voting because nobody bothered running against him. Reuben Kigen Tobosei locked down the MCA spot for Tembelio Ward after the electoral commission officially declared him the winner when zero opponents stepped up to challenge him...

Cops broke up a bunch of dudes who rolled up to a polling spot in Siakago while ballots were getting counted. The crowd started yelling anti-government stuff and edging closer to the entrance before officers scattered everyone and kept things chill so vote tallying could keep rolling. Earlier...

Kenya's electoral body walked through what goes down after polls shut and explained how ballots get handled from counting to final results. Presiding officers crack open the boxes while everyone watches and sort votes into piles before tallying them out loud. Staff record everything on Form 35A...

Kenya's electoral commission dropped a statement saying ballot boxes get cracked open right in front of everyone once voting wraps up at 5 pm. The presiding officer handles the whole count at each station while agents and media watch the tallying happen live. Results hit the public portal after...

Kenyan cops grabbed eight people and confiscated a bunch of sketchy weapons during a security sweep near Bungoma ahead of some local elections. Officers stopped a vehicle in the Sikusi area on the Chwele-Bungoma road and found machetes, clubs, and metal rods inside. The suspects got hauled to...

Zimbabwe might actually hit single-digit inflation for the first time since 1997 if Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube gets his way. The guy told Parliament that the rate should drop to around 10 percent before the year wraps up and could dip below that threshold early next year. Annual inflation...

Zimbabwe got a new army boss when Lieutenant General Asher Walter Tapfumaneyi took over from General Emmanuel Matatu, who moved up to run the whole defense force. Defence Minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri watched the handover go down and said both guys fought in the liberation war as teenagers...

Zimbabwe's First Lady, Auxillia Mnangagwa, showed up at John Tallach High School in Umguza District to check out what kids are doing with trash under her waste recycling program. The school won a national competition for turning garbage into stuff they can sell while keeping their campus clean...

Three guys working for Harare City Council got killed at the Morton Jaffray water plant near Norton while doing something on an old clarifier that wasn't being used anymore. The city says they're looking into what happened and the cops showed up to check things out. The water supply isn't...

Zimbabwe just rolled out a health insurance thing that costs people basically nothing and gives them access to clinics. The Community Health Equity Fund started up in Hopley and lets residents pay one dollar to sign up plus two bucks every year after that. Members get free checkups at government...