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Former National Police chief Vasil Vassilev told BTV that authorities knew the protest would draw massive crowds and that violent groups would show up looking to fight cops, but officers still let things get out of hand. He said the troublemakers who smashed up DPS-NN and GERB offices were...

Ivaylo Mirchev from We Continue the Change-Democratic Bulgaria accused the police and the ruling coalition of deliberately pulling security during massive protests in Sofia, which let agitators start fights near the DPS-Novo Nachalo headquarters on Vrabcha Street. He called both the interior...

The government pulled back its 2026 budget proposal after protests hit the streets, but officials say the process is just on pause until social partners and the state can hash out a deal. GERB's leader signaled he might give ground on dividend taxes and insurance caps, which employers have been...

Massive crowds hit the streets in Sofia, Plovdiv, Varna, and Burgas last night, demanding the government pull back its 2026 budget proposal. The capital saw the biggest turnout with protesters camping outside government buildings for hours, yelling at officials to step down. Things got messy...

A Bulgarian opposition leader is calling out what he thinks was a staged setup at recent anti-government rallies across Sofia and other major cities. The co-chair claims authorities deliberately left protesters unprotected near a monument, allowed agitators to cause chaos, and even cut power to...

A prosecutor from Chipinge got slapped with a 12-month sentence for messing with a rape victim's statement to help out the accused rapist. The regional prosecutor and a defense attorney allegedly rewrote the facts to claim the 13-year-old girl and her uncle weren't related and had consensual...

A Chinese dude got busted in Harare for allegedly running an illegal money transfer scheme and dodging the country's currency rules. Authorities say the guy was taking cash from clients and sending it to China without going through official banking channels or getting Reserve Bank approval...

Zimbabwe's anti-corruption watchdog just dropped its second major strategy to fight graft over the next five years. The commission held a workshop to validate the plan, which targets mining, government contracts, schools, and data systems as the riskiest areas for shady dealings. The strategy...

The Asantehene just wrapped what people are calling the most productive Bawku peace talks yet, and he's about to drop his findings with President Mahama any day. Otumfuo Osei Tutu II got Kusaasi and Mamprusi reps together at Manhyia Palace, and both sides apparently left feeling good enough that...

Ghana Communication Technology University just pushed out over 2,100 graduates, with most of them coming from the computing and IT programs. Vice-Chancellor Emmanuel Afoakwa talked up the school's expansion plans, which include an eight-story lecture complex dropping before the year ends and a...

Ghana's National Peace Council is basically drowning under a mountain of unresolved disputes while running on fumes, and Chairman Emmanuel Fianu went on TV3 to air out all the problems. The organization has 83 people on staff when they actually need 400 just for regional work, and close to 1,000...

The head of Adepa Teachers' Credit Union is telling members to stop treating loans like free money and actually save instead. Dorothy Adentwi-Hayford went off at their anniversary event about how people keep taking out loans without any plan to pay them back, which is tanking the whole system...

This Prempeh College grad named Tetteh Edward Jr just crushed WASSCE with a 6 aggregate for the second time in his academic career, and he's asking companies and donors to bankroll his medical school dreams. The kid already pulled the same score back at Baptist JHS in Ashanti Mampong, and he's...

After almost ten years stuck in legal purgatory, Gregory Afoko just walked out of an Accra courtroom because the system basically gave up on prosecuting him for the acid attack that killed NPP regional chairman Adams Mahama back in 2015. The judge pulled the plug after watching the trial get...

The widow of highlife legend Daddy Lumba is taking her fight to the appeals court after getting shut down at the High Court level. Akosua Serwaa wanted recognition as his sole legitimate wife, and her lawyer, William Kusi, says they're filing the paperwork to challenge the ruling that tossed her...

An NPP communications guy named Awal Mohammed went on JoyNews and basically flipped the script on why WASSCE results tanked this year. Math scores absolutely cratered, with only about half of the 461,000 test takers managing to pass, and that's the worst it's been in four years. English dropped...

St. Lucia Labour Party looks set to run the government again after early tallies showed them crushing the United Workers Party by roughly 8,000 votes while officials kept counting ballots. The preliminary numbers had SLP sitting at 27,156 against UWP's 19,009 across the 17-constituency race that...

Jamaica's murder count might drop below 700 cases for the first time in nearly four decades after Prime Minister Andrew Holness told everyone his government dropped over 90 billion dollars into security forces since taking power. The PM gave props to police and soldiers who stayed active during...

Trinidad's PM Kamla Persad-Bissessar went nuclear on the opposition after they started freaking out about American radar gear spinning at the Tobago airport. She straight-up accused the People's National Movement of taking drug cartel money and pushing anti-US talking points, while PNM's Tobago...

A bunch of international lenders just dropped a massive aid package worth $6.7 billion to help Jamaica bounce back from Hurricane Melissa's destruction. The coalition includes CAF, CDB, IDB Group, IMF, and World Bank, throwing in emergency cash, sovereign loans, grants, and private sector money...