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Tanzania's ruling party ran internal votes to pick who gets to lead cities and districts for the next five years, and CCM councillors across the country chose their mayoral and council chair candidates. Dormohamed Issa kept his Mbeya mayor nomination after beating two opponents with 28 votes...

Tanzania just landed a $640 million farming deal that's supposed to create over 100,000 jobs in the next decade. Pan-Tanzania Agriculture Developments Limited grabbed 62,000 acres in Kilwa District, where they're setting up cassava farms and an industrial park to process stuff for Chinese and...

Local government bigwigs in Tanzania are pushing hard for better neighborhood tracking systems because knowing who actually lives where makes everything from security to basic services way easier to handle. Peppino Sudi from Ubungo District says the old ten-cell leader system for tracking...

Two city councillors from Chinhoyi nearly got locked up after calling someone a prostitute on WhatsApp, and Ruth Chikukwa plus Jacqueline Zenda each had to cough up $350 or face three months behind bars. They got busted under Zimbabwe's Cyber Security and Data Protection Act when Linda Sauramba...

Zimbabwe's national rugby squad finds out who they face at the expanded 2027 World Cup when organizers run the draw in Sydney. The Sables locked their spot by beating Namibia to win the Rugby Africa Cup after sitting out global competition since 1991, and they join South Africa as the...

Econet Wireless Zimbabwe is throwing what they're calling a massive tech expo at Harare International Conference Centre that runs for three days starting next week. The whole thing goes by Future-Ready Tech Synergies, and the telecom giant wants to show off AI, IoT, 5G, and cloud stuff while...

Seven college kids walked free after new security camera footage showed their classmate Lorna Kathambi Karani actually died trying to parkour between balconies at Harmony Plaza Apartments in Ngara. Dennis Kariuki Gitonga, Louis Osiro, Lucy Mora, Ali Kabwana Kamaku, Precious Kendi Mutembei...

Nairobi cops are looking into a guy who fell 14 floors from a Kilimani apartment balcony on Kindaruma Road and landed dead on a car roof with both legs shattered. Guards heard the impact, and witnesses say he dropped from a rented place after getting into it with his 48-year-old girlfriend...

Kenya's Public Service Commission started grilling over 13,000 shortlisted grads for 7,000 government internship slots that pay actual money for a year. The whole thing kicked off with Paul Famba running the show across 13 regional spots, and they're wrapping interviews by week's end before...

Interior CS Kipchumba Murkomen told political thugs and whoever bankrolls them that the government's coming for everyone with zero favoritism. He brought this up at a chief's graduation thing in Embakasi after some nasty violence went down in Nairobi, saying anyone rolling around with machetes...

Kenya's central bank put up two long-term government bonds for auction with pretty sweet rates attached. The 30-year paper offers 12% while the 25-year one comes with 13.924%, and bidding closes early next week. Both are reopened securities that mature way out in 2041 and 2046, and they're...

The ICC wrapped up its Kenya investigation after years of being front and center in the country's political drama. The prosecutor's office called it quits on active probing, but there's still unfinished business with two people they're hunting down for allegedly messing with witnesses. Those...

Police are investigating a church brawl in Kariobangi North that left six people hurt and set off a political blame game. Former Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua says cops and hired thugs attacked the PCEA Church congregation with gunfire and tear gas during a service for a winning ward...

Three government workers at Kenya's main airport got busted trying to shake down an agent who helps people move to Middle East countries for work. Benson Ouma Okello, Esther Njoki Gakuru, and Denis Marias all worked for the Labour Ministry at JKIA, and they apparently wanted 34,000 shillings to...

EACC busted a bribery ring at the Kenya Institute of Highways and Building Technology in Kisii after instructors Philip Dawa and Fidel Omondi allegedly forced students to cough up cash to pass their driving tests. The anti-corruption squad raided the campus and grabbed Omondi with a fat envelope...

Kenya's High Court is letting bus companies and government officials keep talking things out after transport operators sued over a ban that stopped them from using gas stations as passenger pickup spots in downtown Nairobi. Justice Chacha told both sides to chill while they hash out a deal, and...

Tanzania's president came out swinging about how her cops handled election protests, and she basically said they had to get rough because people were trying to storm police stations and grab weapons. Samia Suluhu Hassan told a crowd that protestors were going after government buildings and...

Kalonzo Musyoka shut down rumors that Wiper handed every single Nairobi seat over to Rigathi Gachagua's Democracy of Citizens Party for the next election cycle. The Wiper boss said people are spreading fake drama to mess with their coalition plans and make it look like he's beefing with...

Kura engineers walked a 13-kilometer stretch of Outering Road with Eastlands residents after locals petitioned about busted streetlights and trashed guardrails, making the highway sketchy. Justus Onyinkwa from Kura admitted that vandals keep ripping out underground power cables faster than crews...

Ruto and Musalia Mudavadi are heading to Washington because Trump is getting Rwanda and DRC to finally sign a peace deal for Eastern Congo. The agreement wraps up work that the East African Community and the Southern African Development Community have been grinding on for years. Kagame and...