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  1. Munyaradzi Mafaro

    Tanzania earns top marks, public finance goes global

    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...
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    Algeria backs Tanzanian youth, scholarships spark new ties

    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...
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    Hong Kong blaze tragedy rises, bamboo scaffolding under fire

    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...
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    AI-fueled online abuse surges, Tanzanian women left exposed

    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...
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    Parliament backs term extension, one-party calls stir outrage

    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...
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    Zimbabwe term-extension plan slammed, poll shows trust crisis

    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...
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    Justice Chatukuta hailed for integrity, Zimbabwe honors her legacy

    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...
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    Trump bars South Africa from G20, Ramaphosa won’t budge

    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...
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    Zimbabwe preps for mono-currency, RBZ claims forex fears over

    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...
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    Assassin’s Creed Shadows trims visuals, Switch 2 plays catch-up

    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...
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    RTX 50 and RX 9000 gaming PCs dip, RAM pain dodged for now

    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...
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    Steam’s AI disclosure debate heats up, Sweeney shrugs at tags

    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...
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    RDNA 4 GPUs crash below MSRP, upgrade fever hits wallets

    Amazon just dropped prices on AMD's RDNA 4 lineup below retail, and people probably should not sleep on these deals before component costs mess everything up. The RX 9070 XT from PowerColor is sitting at $599 when it normally goes for around $650 to $700, and that card can basically max out...
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    Intel Xeon 696X leaks, Granite Rapids hits core jackpot

    Intel's upcoming Xeon 696X workstation chip just got leaked with 64 cores and boost speeds hitting 4.6 GHz on the Granite Rapids platform. The processor showed up in SiSoftware benchmarks running on an AdLink rack system and posted a 46 percent performance jump over the current flagship Xeon...
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    Dying Light - The Beast patch lands, parkour gets beastly

    Techland dropped Update 1.4 for Dying Light: The Beast and finally added ray tracing to the PC version after cutting it from launch. The patch brings ray-traced lighting alongside shadows and reflections to make Castor Woods look way better, plus it fixes over 70 visual bugs that were messing...
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    Assassin’s Creed Shadows cuts DLC plans, future left vague

    Ubisoft associate game director Simon Lemay-Comtois told YouTuber JorRaptor that Claws of Awaji is probably the final major expansion for Assassin's Creed Shadows, even though the game has been one of the few wins for the publisher lately. The studio originally wanted to drop multiple...
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    Japan game approvals at risk, trade tensions hit reset

    Niko Partners is warning that Japan might be about to get absolutely wrecked in the Chinese gaming market because geopolitical beef between the two countries keeps getting worse. The analytics firm pointed out that Japanese games make up around 30 percent of all foreign titles that get approved...
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    Samsung’s NAND slashes power, rivals left scrambling for charge

    Samsung researchers just dropped a paper in Nature about ferroelectric transistor tech that slashes NAND flash power draw by 96 percent, which is kinda bonkers when you think about how much juice data centers and phones are gonna need as AI stuff keeps growing. The team of 34 people figured out...
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    Gaming handheld prices jump, countdown to wallet pain begins

    OneXPlayer is jacking up prices on its APEX gaming handheld by $200 across every single config because DRAM and SSD costs keep climbing. The Chinese company dropped the announcement on X and said buyers have 96 hours to lock in the current pricing before the increase hits. The APEX is their...
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    Moore Threads eyes mega-IPO, hype outweighs horsepower

    Moore Threads is about to drop what might be the biggest domestic GPU IPO Shanghai has ever seen, pulling in over 4000 retail investor subscriptions and trying to raise $1.1 billion. Western outlets are hyping them up as the NVIDIA of China, but anyone who actually knows their GPU specs can tell...
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