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Pearl Bank is sending a purple-suited Santa mascot to branches across Uganda to vibe with customers and hand out festive cheer as part of their rebrand from PostBank. Marketing head Priscilla Akora said the mascot matches their corporate purple color scheme and represents their commitment to...

Kampala cops grabbed 25 people during a sting operation along the Northern Bypass near Double Q after they were caught yanking phones from drivers and passengers stuck in gridlock. Police impounded eight motorcycles that the suspects apparently used to pull off the heists, and they collected...

Mbarara University of Science and Technology busted someone pretending to be a pharmacy student after she spent who knows how long sitting in lectures and blending in with actual enrolled people. Jacinter Hamba was using a fake student number and claiming she belonged to the medicine faculty...

Police stopped Bobi Wine from hitting campaign spots in Nwoya and Amuru after he allegedly tried switching up his route and heading toward the Elegu border instead. Security forces say the NUP candidate ditched the agreed-upon rally location that his team previously confirmed with authorities...

Lawyer Dennis Paulo Kavuma launched Gravitas Leadership Institute this year to help young Ugandans figure out what they actually want from life and build some kind of plan around it. The program targets everyone from high schoolers to career switchers and retirees who need direction, mixing...

The Public Relations Association of Uganda handed out trophies at their ninth annual awards ceremony at Protea Hotel in Kampala, with 13 winners getting recognized for creative communication work. Association president Irene Nakasiita said the event celebrates people who pushed boundaries in...

Museveni rolled into Bundibugyo, promising a cocoa processing plant that he says will create jobs and turn the district into an industrial hub similar to Namanve, which employs 24,000 workers. The area produces over 70% of Uganda's cocoa exports, and the president claims investors are locked in...

UN human rights boss Volker Türk is sounding alarms over hundreds of dead civilians in Sudan's Kordofan region, where the Rapid Support Forces and Sudanese Armed Forces have been going at it since late October. At least 269 people got killed through airstrikes, shelling, drone hits, and...

Sudanese refugee women based in Uganda are begging African leadership to step in and stop the bloodbath back home, where sexual violence has become a tactical weapon against civilians. Rayan Abdallah Mohammed from Darfur spoke at an International Conference on the Great Lakes Region workshop in...

Burundi says the AFC/M23 rebels lobbed explosives over the border into Chibitoke, and Foreign Minister Edouard Bizimana is not having it. The spillover happened right after regional peace talks wrapped up in Washington, where Burundian President Évariste Ndayishimiye signed an accord but warned...

Four people died when three cars slammed into each other on the B1 highway about 33 kilometers south of Otjiwarongo after rain made the road slick. A sedan lost control and veered into oncoming traffic, hitting a pickup truck head-on, before a Corolla rear-ended the sedan hard. The victims were...

Simonis Storm economist Almandro Jansen says rental costs in Namibia are cooling slightly to 4.8% annually, but major cities like Windhoek, Swakopmund, and Walvis Bay still face serious affordability problems because new housing supply barely moves, land development drags, and construction...

A key witness who spilled the beans at the Madlanga Commission got gunned down in Brakpan with his family watching, and political parties are losing it over the total failure to keep him safe. Marius van der Merwe had recently testified against suspended Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Police Department...

A group of 17 Western embassies in Tanzania is pushing authorities to hand over bodies from post-election violence to families and free political prisoners. The missions claim credible evidence points to extrajudicial killings, forced disappearances, and hidden corpses after President Samia...

Flex Commodities out of Dubai just fired up bunker fuel operations at Walvis Bay in Namibia through a partnership with GAC Investment CC called Flex GAC Namibia. The move is part of their West Africa expansion play and gives the port another refueling stop for ships cruising the South Atlantic...

Scammers are weaponizing AI to pull off pig-butchering schemes, which are basically long-con frauds where they fake friendships or romantic relationships before draining victims financially. Standard Bank Namibia compliance head Roxzaan Witbooi warns that these predators slide into DMs on social...

A bunch of economists dropped a new think tank called the Namibia Institute for Economic Policy because they say the country keeps fumbling its natural resource advantages. Co-founder Rowland Brown pointed out that minerals, fish, wildlife, and fresh oil and gas discoveries have not actually...

Namcor partnered up with ReconAfrica and BW Energy to drill the Kavango West 1X exploration well on petroleum exploration license 73, and they hit paydirt with oil and gas discoveries in the Otavi carbonate formation. The well pulled roughly 400 meters of hydrocarbon section with 64 net meters...

Gandja Iyambo took over as mayor of Okahao Town Council and said the group will stick to honesty, teamwork, and getting stuff done while keeping communication open across party lines. He told councillors to drop the ego trips and work together instead of letting political differences mess up...

Martha Imalwa just got tapped to keep running Namibia's prosecuting authority for another year after her term wrapped up, and President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah made the call based on what the Judicial Service Commission recommended. She has been holding down the prosecutor general spot since...