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Ugandan presidential candidate Mugisha Muntu from the Alliance for National Transformation warned that the country is heading toward a massive blowup if authorities keep ignoring poverty and using security forces for political games. The retired major general said during a debate that military...

Uganda's Works and Transport Ministry opened up part of the Karuma-Kamdini highway after nearly a month of closures from embankment damage caused by heavy rainfall. The section got wrecked when nonstop rain triggered a collapse about 1 km from the Karuma-Olwiyo/Pakwach junction, and authorities...

Gender activist Rosa Namises threw cold water on the uptick of women getting elected as regional councillors across Namibia, saying the whole thing looks more like political maneuvering than actual progress. Women grabbed seats in Ohangwena, Oshana, Omusati, Khomas, Kavango East and West...

Police over in the Zambezi region are looking into a break-in at the Bush Baby shop in Katima Mulilo after thieves jacked N$59,000 from eight gambling machines. The crew cut through the roof to get inside, then snipped alarm wires before busting open the jackpots and grabbing the cash. Cops have...

Health minister Esperance Luvindao dropped an update about multiple disease outbreaks hitting Namibia after measles cases popped up around Opuwo and cholera got confirmed near Grootfontein. The measles situation spread to 11 districts with 564 suspected cases and 198 confirmed infections, plus...

Angola's president, João Lourenço, basically picked a side at the seventh EU-African Union Summit in Luanda by signing off on language that takes shots at American trade policy. The declaration complains about tariff chaos and unstable trade moves while hyping up Europe as the stable partner...

William Minnie just became one of the youngest councillors at Mariental after getting elected through the Landless People's Movement at 23 years old, and he says his game plan centers on getting jobs for young people and fixing broken municipal services. His priority list hits youth employment...

Namibian Correctional Service confirmed they're holding 10 kids at Evaristus Shikongo Correctional Facility alongside adult prisoners, but Assistant Commissioner Salmi Hangula insists the juveniles stay in separate units the whole time. The breakdown includes two sentenced Namibian minors, five...

Independent candidates cleaned up in Namibia's Kavango regions during recent council elections, and political analysts say it happened because parties keep picking favorites instead of actual talent. Re-elected independent councillor Paulus Mbangu from Rundu Rural says voters are getting tired...

UNICEF and UNAIDS dropped some grim projections ahead of World AIDS Day, saying kids with HIV keep getting shafted on testing and treatment. If funding gets slashed in half, models show 1.1 million more children could catch HIV by 2040, and 820,000 could die from AIDS-related stuff. Even keeping...

More than 900 people are dead across Sri Lanka, Indonesia, and Thailand after massive flooding and landslides tore through the region, and rescue teams are still hunting for hundreds who went missing. Sri Lanka got hammered the worst by Cyclone Ditwah, with the death count hitting 334, and parts...

Africycle in Zomba just dropped 12 bikes worth K4 million to Faith Organization Shine Relief, and the gear is going straight to kids who have to trek forever to get to class. Suzen Zidana from Shine Relief said the donation showed up at the perfect time because orphans and teen moms they support...

Destiny College of Leadership and Development Studies in Balaka District handed out degrees and certificates to 203 graduates on Monday, and the main message from speakers was pretty clear: stop waiting around for jobs and start making them instead. Principal Bishop Andrew Mankhanamba told the...

Anthony Masamba from Malawi's Parliamentary Committee on Health told a bunch of policymakers and health people in Salima that the country needs to stop just talking about women's reproductive rights and actually do something about it. The Mchinji North East rep pointed out that Malawi keeps...

Promoter Patson Chimbodza managed to book both Jah Prayzah and Winky D for a New Year's Eve face-off at the National Sports Stadium's Hockey Stadium, and people are already calling it the show of the year. The two biggest names in Zimbabwean music have hardcore fan armies that constantly argue...

CDEDI just went off about billions of kwacha getting wasted on the Lumbadzi greenhouse project while the country got basically nothing back for it. Executive Director Sylvester Namiwa dropped receipts about how the previous government dropped USD 5 million on an Israeli company called Inosselia...

Nonku Williams and her boyfriend, Lungani Rammaledi, got into a cooking battle at his place, and the Real Housewives of Durban star posted the whole thing online for everyone to see. He made steak with lamb and veggies while she cooked fish with garlic cream sauce, and they had gospel music...

Prince Kaybee posted a thirst trap showing off his arms, and Lasizwe slid into the replies, asking the DJ out on a proper date while promising it would not turn into content for his YouTube show. The house music producer actually said yes and dropped a heart emoji back at him, which got the...

Lynn Forbes showed up to court in Durban and locked eyes with the two brothers accused of murking her son AKA and his friend Tibz outside a restaurant nearly two years back. Siyabonga Gezani and Malusi Dave Ndimande got dragged back from Eswatini after getting nabbed at a rental house in...

Influencer Nadia Jaftha got engaged after her partner pulled off a surprise proposal, and she posted pics showing herself looking shocked while flashing the ring. The content creator captioned everything with a line about saying yes to her favorite chapter, and the comment section filled up with...