A masked dude with a gun snatched a six-year-old kid and grabbed cash from a doctor's house in Njeru Municipality after ambushing the family late at night. The attacker waited for Dr. Ndiwalana Mbuga Moses to pull into his driveway, then forced him and his watchman, Byaruhanga Michael, plus the...
KCCA grabbed the league lead after beating Mbarara City at Rwamanja Stadium in Kamwenge. Coach Brian Ssenyondo got back from the U-17 World Cup stuff and watched Herbert Achayi nail a header off Joel Sserunjogi's corner to open the scoring. Mbarara's Muhammad Kanyike linked up with Gaddafi...
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni hit up Kiruhura District, pushing locals to ditch traditional cattle methods and switch to zero-grazing systems that could stack thousands of animals on land currently holding just 130 heads. The president dropped examples of farmers crushing it on tiny plots...
Uganda's top military guy, Muhoozi Kainerugaba, sat down with Belgium's ambassador Hugues Chantry at the Special Forces headquarters in Entebbe to talk about ramping up security ties. Kainerugaba briefed the Belgian crew on Uganda's military moves across the region, from fighting ADF militants...
Ugandan military dropped artillery on a couple of ADF camps in eastern Congo and claims they wrecked the hideouts while taking out militants. The strikes went down in Mambasa territory near Babunga and below the Epulu River as part of the joint Operation Shujaa mission with Congolese forces...
Namibia's Electoral Commission told losing candidates to accept voter decisions after the regional council and local authority races wrapped up. Chairperson Elsie Nghikembua said unsuccessful politicians need to respect what people chose and keep helping build the country instead of sulking...
Senegal's prime minister and a former Nigerian leader both reckon the military takeover in Guinea-Bissau was basically theater. Ousmane Sonko and Goodluck Jonathan claim President Umaro Embaló staged his own removal with army help to dodge election results he might have lost, but neither guy...
Swapo grabbed eight council spots in Windhoek, which beats the five they had before the latest voting went down. The Independent Patriots for Change dropped from four seats to three, while Affirmative Repositioning and the Landless People's Movement each kept one position after holding two...
Cops in Ondangwa grabbed a doctor named Fillemon Nakanduungile for allegedly being involved in the attack on prosecutor Justine Shiweda. Deputy commissioner Fredrick Ndjadila said the suspect got hauled before a magistrate and bail got shut down. The hit on the 30-year-old prosecutor went down...
Jacob Zuma's daughter Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla bailed from parliament after cops started looking into claims she tricked 17 South African guys into becoming Russian mercenaries for the Ukraine war. Her half-sister dropped an affidavit saying Zuma-Sambudla and two other randos promised security...
Zimbabwe's Public Service Commission got caught letting 66 teachers keep their government paychecks after winning council seats in the 2023 elections, which straight-up breaks the constitution. The country's legal framework requires civil servants to bounce from their jobs when they take...
Zimbabwe's military boss, Valerio Sibanda, just retired, and political watchers think President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa orchestrated the whole thing to strengthen his grip on power. Analyst Ricky Mukonza figures Sibanda will jump into politics as a weapon against Vice President Constantino...
Mike Arnold, who used to run Blanco as mayor, went off on Tinubu for putting Reno Omokri on the ambassador shortlist. The Texas politician has beef with Omokri going back years over claims he downplays Christian persecution back home. Arnold dropped a Facebook rant calling the president deaf...
Senate President Godswill Akpabio told people at a church event in Uyo that divine intervention completely changed his life, and he wants Nigerians to get serious about serving God wherever they end up. The guy described himself as the highest-ranking Christian in government and said he belongs...
Nigeria's resident doctors wrapped up their month-long walkout after the government signed off on some promises. The strike yanked about 11,000 doctors out of 91 teaching hospitals around the country and trashed healthcare access for a solid month. Dr Shuaibu Ibrahim from NARD said they...
Goodluck Jonathan rolled up to the Presidential Villa in Abuja after getting yanked out of Guinea-Bissau when the military decided to stage a coup. Presidential spokesman Bayo Onanuga confirmed the ex-president linked up with Tinubu following his safe return. Jonathan had been over there leading...
Adamawa State officials went around Yola shutting down businesses that stayed open during the monthly cleanup time. They dumped out food from street vendors, killed cooking fires under bean cakes, and flipped tables where people were selling stuff. The state requires everyone to stay home and...
Abia State's governor, Alex Otti, met with Jewish community leaders and basically told them his government doesn't play favorites with any religion. The Commonwealth Jewish Council president, Clive Obe, brought up how Saturday elections make it rough for Sabbath observers to participate, but...
President Tinubu told everyone his government wants to totally overhaul the country's security setup and make the police force way more professional. The Nigeria Police Academy in Kano just pushed out 1,187 new cadets who finished their degrees and training. Tinubu's guy, George Akume, showed up...
Kaduna Governor Uba Sani wants Nigeria to set up a unified North-West Theatre Command that merges two army divisions to share intel better and wreck criminal operations across state lines. He pitched this at a Senate security hearing, and he pushed for extending the Lake Chad task force to cover...
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