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The former parliament speaker, who was around when the Special Prosecutor's office got created, is calling for the whole thing to get nuked because he thinks it turned into a power-tripping mess that breaks basic legal rules. Aaron Mike Oquaye went off about how the agency arrested activist...

Some anti-corruption activists are telling lawmakers to chill out after a bunch of MPs started pushing to kill off the Special Prosecutor's Office and hand everything back to the Attorney General. Edem Senanu from the Citizens Movement Against Corruption said scrapping the agency would be...

A 21-year-old unemployed guy is heading to trial later this month after allegedly shanking a firefighter with a screwdriver because water from the hose got him wet while crews were putting out a house fire at Adjiriganor. Sampson Azumah supposedly had the tool hidden in his waist bag, stabbed...

Two people died after a minibus driver tried passing another car on the Accra-Kumasi Highway and slammed head-on into a Honda Pilot coming the other way. The Toyota Hiace lost control during the sketchy overtaking move near Anyinam, and the crash left both rides completely wrecked with...

Ghana's president flew into Qatar to speak at the Doha Forum, where he will kick off a session about education during crises and then hop on a panel discussing how to grow African economies without leaving people behind. John Dramani Mahama landed on a government jet loaned by the Qataris and...

Ghana's tourism booking platform is actually getting real traffic from international travelers paying for stuff through the site, but the government agency supposed to market it just announced plans to build a completely separate app that does the exact same thing. The digital marketplace...

A traditional chief in Sunyani told a teachers' conference that parents need to stop dumping all the responsibility on schools since kids spend way more time at home than in classrooms. Odeefour Ogyeamansan Boahen Korkor II was speaking at the National Association of Graduate Teachers gathering...

A traditional leader in Ghana gave props to the government's Big Push road program while agreeing to run the country's annual farmer awards thing happening in Ho. Togbe Afede XIV said better roads would help rural growers get their crops to market faster and cut down on wasted produce. The guy...

Jamaica's tourism minister told a crowd in Florida that the island should be good to go for visitors by mid-December after Hurricane Melissa wrecked the western side back in October. Edmund Bartlett was hanging out with tourism officials and diaspora groups in Broward County, saying hotel...

The guy who ran St. Lucia's opposition party just quit after getting absolutely wrecked in the election for the second time in a row. Allen Chastanet was the only United Workers Party candidate who managed to keep his seat while the ruling Labour Party grabbed 14 out of 17 spots in parliament...

The Jamaica Stock Exchange is paying respects to Alvaro Alonso Casserly, a business heavyweight who died after spending decades shaping corporate boards and community groups across the island. The guy sat on the JSE board for over a decade and basically never left the Jamaica Central Securities...

The US Secretary of State told a bunch of countries they need to throw more cash and troops at the Haiti security mission because Kenya can't handle the gang crisis alone. Marco Rubio was hanging out with Kenya's president at the State Department and basically said if just a handful of nations...

Antigua and Barbuda's prime minister told parliament the country pulled off a massive financial turnaround with a primary surplus hitting $254.9 million and an overall surplus of $116.3 million while presenting the 2026 budget. Gaston Browne said the government went from drowning in debt to...

The UK just rolled out a new framework that lets its overseas territories hammer out formal Partnership Compacts, and the British Virgin Islands might actually use this to get a better deal on how much London can meddle in local stuff. These agreements would spell out what both sides have to do...

Bill Clinton flew into Jamaica to check out the wreckage from Hurricane Melissa, a massive Category 5 storm that slammed the western part of the island and killed over 40 people while racking up more than a trillion Jamaican dollars in destruction. The former president met with government...

A magistrate in Soroti told the relatives of Dr. Godfrey Egwau to bring a legitimate death certificate by mid-month because the local council paperwork they turned in wasn't enough to make things official. The doc passed away at a cancer hospital in Kampala after getting hit with medical...

Hajji Bruhan Sserunga stood up at a rally and told everyone Museveni deserves another term despite his son Mubarak Munyagwa running against the president under a different party. The elder Sserunga helped NRA fighters back in the day and says he respects what the current government has...

Coach Paul Put named his 30-player roster for AFCON Morocco with nine guys coming from Uganda Premier League squads. Vipers playmaker Allan Okello cut along with teen sensation James Bogere, who turned heads at the U17 World Cup with Uganda Cubs. KCCA keeper Charles Lukwago got recalled despite...

A taxi tried passing a Fuso truck on the Kampala-Jinja highway near Bulumagi village, then panicked when oncoming traffic appeared and swerved straight into the truck it was overtaking. Both vehicles flipped after impact, and the Fuso spilled its cargo of booze all over the road. Driver Ntabazi...

Mulago National Referral Hospital surgeons pulled off Uganda's first laparoscopic radical prostatectomy on a 73-year-old dude, using tiny incisions and a camera instead of slicing him wide open. Lead urologist Badru Ssekitooleko said patients normally drop over 100 million shillings flying to...