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Zimbabwe has been sitting on roughly 85 million dollars it yanked from government worker paychecks to cover microfinance loans, and that pile has been collecting dust for five months straight. CBZ affiliate Red Sphere Finance stopped issuing any new loans to civil servants after the government...

Masvingo cops grabbed some Mirror reporters who went to check out water pipe damage at a disputed property tied to provincial minister Ezra Chadzamira, but the trespassing charges flopped after a three-hour detention. Police then pivoted to investigating whether the newspaper's Toyota Aqua...

Zimbabwe President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa just hooked up the Zanu PF old-timers with 10 Ford Everest SUVs at some ceremony, and he threw in laptops plus Apple gear for the party propaganda crew. The Elders Council has former bigwigs like Sydney Sekeramayi running point, and they basically...

Zimbabwe wants cops to actually crack down on people messing with their phones behind the wheel after way too many crashes got blamed on distracted drivers. Deputy Minister Joshua Sacco and a bunch of transport stakeholders met up in Harare for a workshop thrown by the Traffic Safety Council and...

Some dude in Zimbabwe basically ransacked his brother's place and grabbed a grinding mill plus four animals after finding out the guy knocked up his wife, but Chief Makoni's court said that whole vigilante compensation thing was bogus. Michael Dzomba got dragged to the community court by his...

Nicholas Zakaria, the guy who fronted Khiama Boys and went by Madzibaba, died from diabetes complications at a hospital in Chitungwiza at 69 years old. His funeral is happening at some family spot in Chiweshe, and the entire Zimbabwe music scene showed up at his place to pay respects. Alick...

Zimbabwe bumped 28 army guys from Major to Lieutenant Colonel at some ceremony in Harare, and the brass made it clear this was about future potential rather than just past performance. Brigadier General Christopher Rangwana told the newly promoted officers that President Mnangagwa picked them...

A Bulawayo councillor from Zanu-PF named Josiah Mutangi got nailed for scamming street vendors out of their cash by promising them legal spots to sell stuff, and the judge handed him 490 hours of community service at the local cop shop. His partner in crime, Janet Zhou, pulled 450 hours at a...

A Kenyan woman got roasted by her mom after wiring home 5,000 shillings, and the whole thing blew up online when someone posted the audio. The mother basically told her daughter to reverse the transfer because it was useless, and she even said to stop calling home entirely. The daughter had...

National Assembly Speaker Moses Wetangula joined other political figures at Mazeras High School in Kwale County to honor former legislator Denar Joseph Hamisi Tui at his burial. Senate Speaker Amason Kingi praised the deceased as someone who fought for integrity and land rights, while Deputy...

The Climax Coach driver told investigators he had no choice but to take the head-on collision with Cyrus Jirongo's Mercedes after the politician pulled out from a gas station on the Nakuru-Naivasha Highway without yielding. Kamau Githinji was hauling 65 passengers from Nairobi toward Busia when...

Education CS Julius Migos dropped the 2025 Kenya Junior Secondary Education Assessment scores and told everyone they can grab results through the ministry portal at selection.education.go.ke/my-selections or text the assessment number to 22263 for 30 shillings. Students need to punch in their...

President Ruto posted about losing his friend, former Lugari MP Cyrus Jirongo, who died after his car slammed into a bus at 3 a.m. along the Nairobi-Nakuru Highway in Karai near Naivasha while he was driving alone. The president called him a relentless businessman and politician who never backed...

ODM secretary general Edwin Sifuna dropped a statement mourning former Lugari MP Cyrus Jirongo after the politician died in a head-on collision with a bus while driving solo back to his rural home around 3 a.m. along the Nairobi-Nakuru Highway near Karai in Naivasha. The party called him an...

Kenyan cops grabbed the guy they think strangled Seth Nyakio Njeri after tracking him down to a cereal shop near the Uganda border, where he was hiding out. The 23-year-old daughter of a Kirinyaga politician turned up dead at a Thika estate back in October after her family lost contact with her...

Kenya's Social Health Authority just hired 82 new principal officers to beef up operations while the country rolls out its social insurance program after running a competitive recruitment process that kicked off mid-year. The biggest chunk went to county-level registration, compliance, and...

WTO boss Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala hit Forbes' 100 Most Powerful Women list for the eighth time, landing at number 92 while repping as the first female and first African leading the organization since her appointment back in 2021. She posted about the recognition on X and said the role means pushing...

Heineken dropped its festive season lineup at the Nigerian Breweries press event, with three major activations hitting Abuja and Lagos. The beer brand locked in sponsorship deals for Detty Dec Fest running through the end of the month, Davido's 5ive Alive Tour at Eagle Square in Abuja, and...

Omoni Oboli snagged YouTube Nigeria's Content Creator of the Year award for 2025, and she posted about getting the call from the platform telling her the algorithms proved she captured hearts. The actress thanked her partner Tomi Adeoye, plus her team and fans she calls besties, for pushing her...

University of Benin Vice-Chancellor Edoba Omoregie announced that former VC Adamu Baikie died at 94, and the school sent condolences to his family while calling him a distinguished educator who shaped academic institutions across Africa. The guy ran UNIBEN from 1978 through 1986 and became the...