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South African President Cyril Ramaphosa called it unfortunate that Trump is blocking his country from the Miami G20 gathering after some beef about how last week's summit went down in Johannesburg. Trump skipped the whole thing based on bogus claims about white farmers getting massacred and...

Tanzanian designer Agusta Masaki landed in Nigeria to rep her country at the Africana Royal Elegance Collection fashion show happening through the weekend. She told reporters this is huge for her career and she gets to flex Tanzania on the global stage while celebrating women everywhere from Dar...

Tanzania's central bank just dumped 25 million bucks into the forex market through an auction because everyone keeps wanting dollars and they needed to keep things stable. The sale pulled serious interest from commercial banks, who actually bid for 28.5 million total, with 18 out of 21 banks...

Tanzania's tourism minister rolled out a special museum exhibit about the TAZARA railway that connects Tanzania and Zambia, saying it helps people understand what the country's founders built back in the day. Ashatu Kijaji said the train line from 1970 shows how Africa and China worked together...

Tanzania's basically calling out the European Parliament for scheduling a whole hearing about alleged human rights violations and post-election violence without even letting the government explain its side first. Their embassy in Brussels fired off a diplomatic note saying this whole move...

Tanzania's legal affairs minister swung by the parliamentary drafting office and basically told everyone to step up their game because President Samia wants actual results from government workers. Zuberi Homera reminded the staff that they're literally shaping laws that affect millions of...

Tanzania's getting hit with what analysts are calling a coordinated pressure campaign from Western powers who claim they're defending human rights but might actually be trying to control the country's politics. The government says foreign-funded NGOs and diplomats are stirring up trouble while...

Tanzania's ambassador to the UAE met up with the speaker of their parliament to talk about getting their countries to play nicer together. Lt. Gen. Yacoub Hassan Mohamed and Mussa Azzan Zungu hit up the embassy in Abu Dhabi and basically mapped out how to get both parliaments working closer on...

Tanzania's getting major props for being one of the first African countries to actually use these international accounting standards called IPSAS. Some advisor from Zimbabwe named Amon Dhlimayo was hyping them up at this big accountants meeting in Ghana with like 2,000 people from 55 countries...

Tanzania keeps getting scholarship hookups from Algeria for its young people who want to study various subjects, according to Suzan Kaganda. She's the Tanzanian High Commissioner stationed in Zimbabwe and met up with Mohamed Seoudi, who reps Algeria there. The two diplomats basically talked shop...

A massive fire ripped through multiple apartment towers in Hong Kong's Tai Po area, killing at least 44 people and becoming the city's deadliest blaze since 1962. The inferno started on bamboo scaffolding outside the Wang Fuk Court housing complex and spread like crazy because of green...

UN Women is calling out the massive spike in online abuse targeting women and girls as AI makes harassment way easier to pull off, while most countries still have zero legal framework to actually deal with it. Tanzania has laws scattered across different acts that kinda sorta address cyber...

CCC interim secretary general Sengezo Tshabangu posted that Parliament is totally cool with letting Mnangagwa stick around past his term limit and even extending legislative life if it helps citizens down the road. His take dropped right when ZANU-PF-aligned civic groups started pushing for...

Opposition leader Jameson Timba from the CCC is pointing to fresh Afrobarometer numbers showing that most Zimbabweans do not trust the election commission and basically hate the idea of extending Mnangagwa past 2028 without an actual vote. The survey shows less than 8 percent of people have full...

President Mnangagwa told the country that Supreme Court judge Felicia Chatukuta should be a role model after she passed away from cardiac arrest at 63. The president gave her a state-assisted funeral and said her four decades in law showed total commitment to justice and integrity that left a...

Trump just dropped a post on Truth Social saying South Africa is getting blocked from the Miami G20 summit and losing all US financial support after they refused to hand over the presidency to an American embassy rep at the close of their summit in Johannesburg. He went off about human rights...

Zimbabwe's central bank says it has cleared all outstanding foreign exchange debts and stacked up a billion bucks in reserves as the country prepares to ditch the US dollar by 2030. RBZ deputy governor Innocent Matshe told mining industry people that the transition plan is on track after...

Ubisoft just confirmed that Assassin's Creed Shadows is dropping on Switch 2, and the devs basically had to gut the engine to make it work. Project Lead Programmer Bruno said they stripped out ray-traced global illumination in favor of baked lighting solutions and dialed back almost everything...

Amazon dropped Black Friday deals on prebuilt gaming rigs that dodge the nightmare of buying RAM and SSDs separately at triple the normal cost. Budget hunters can grab an Acer Nitro 60 with a Core i5 14400F and RTX 5060 setup for just $799, which brings 16 gigs of DDR5 and a terabyte of storage...

Epic CEO Tim Sweeney thinks Steam forcing devs to tag games that use generative AI is pointless because he believes pretty much every future title will rely on these tools anyway. The disclosure requirement came up after an Unreal Engine dev complained about the tags and Sweeney jumped in to...