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Cops broke up a bunch of dudes who rolled up to a polling spot in Siakago while ballots were getting counted. The crowd started yelling anti-government stuff and edging closer to the entrance before officers scattered everyone and kept things chill so vote tallying could keep rolling. Earlier...

Kenya's electoral body walked through what goes down after polls shut and explained how ballots get handled from counting to final results. Presiding officers crack open the boxes while everyone watches and sort votes into piles before tallying them out loud. Staff record everything on Form 35A...

Kenya's electoral commission dropped a statement saying ballot boxes get cracked open right in front of everyone once voting wraps up at 5 pm. The presiding officer handles the whole count at each station while agents and media watch the tallying happen live. Results hit the public portal after...

Kenyan cops grabbed eight people and confiscated a bunch of sketchy weapons during a security sweep near Bungoma ahead of some local elections. Officers stopped a vehicle in the Sikusi area on the Chwele-Bungoma road and found machetes, clubs, and metal rods inside. The suspects got hauled to...

Zimbabwe might actually hit single-digit inflation for the first time since 1997 if Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube gets his way. The guy told Parliament that the rate should drop to around 10 percent before the year wraps up and could dip below that threshold early next year. Annual inflation...

Zimbabwe got a new army boss when Lieutenant General Asher Walter Tapfumaneyi took over from General Emmanuel Matatu, who moved up to run the whole defense force. Defence Minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri watched the handover go down and said both guys fought in the liberation war as teenagers...

Zimbabwe's First Lady, Auxillia Mnangagwa, showed up at John Tallach High School in Umguza District to check out what kids are doing with trash under her waste recycling program. The school won a national competition for turning garbage into stuff they can sell while keeping their campus clean...

Three guys working for Harare City Council got killed at the Morton Jaffray water plant near Norton while doing something on an old clarifier that wasn't being used anymore. The city says they're looking into what happened and the cops showed up to check things out. The water supply isn't...

Zimbabwe just rolled out a health insurance thing that costs people basically nothing and gives them access to clinics. The Community Health Equity Fund started up in Hopley and lets residents pay one dollar to sign up plus two bucks every year after that. Members get free checkups at government...

A Harare family rolled up to Chief Mutasa's court asking for help because they think some spiritual curse has them locked down. The Mugayi siblings told the chief that none of them can stay married and one sister hit her 40s without ever getting hitched, while everyone keeps getting sick. They...

Budiriro locals are hyped after cops finally raided a sketchy spot at Current Shopping Centre that had been operating as both a drug den and a brothel. The shutdown happened after residents flagged the mess during some anti-drug campaign, and when authorities rolled through, they found the place...

A Zimbabwean court told Karoi Town Council they blew their chance to fire their acting town secretary because they took way longer than the law allows to wrap up his disciplinary case. The judge said the council broke the mandatory 14 working day deadline under some 2006 statute and also...

Zimbabwe's finance minister dropped a new tax that hits people pulling US dollars out of banks. The government wants to push everyone toward digital payments because physical American cash makes up most transactions and lets people dodge taxes easier. Individual withdrawals under $500 monthly...

Eight miners died after floodwater rushed into an illegal shaft beneath a Penhalonga residence when heavy rainfall hit the area. The victims were working underground at a home on Rizende Road in Redwing Mine when water from a connected tunnel system trapped them. Recovery teams spent two days...

A Harare magistrate just tossed fraud charges against NetOne's chief executive engineer, Raphael Mushanawani, after prosecutors claimed he ran a sketchy US$1.2 million scheme. Regional magistrate Marehwanazvo Gofa said the company knew about every system upgrade he handled and there was zero...

A primary school teacher from Selbourne got busted for jacking cash from her ex and landed herself doing community service hours at Wilkins Hospital instead of straight prison time. Patricia Yusufu swiped over five grand from Mike Charles, and magistrate Nyaradzo Manokore handed down a suspended...

Zimbabwe cops are calling that Ecobank heist from October an inside operation after figuring out the perpetrators had help from security personnel at the company. Commissioner Paul Nyathi dropped the update while explaining that authorities are grinding to get the Vumbunu brothers extradited...

Morogoro District Commissioner Mussa Kilakala just told everyone at a regional trade fair that keeping the country stable matters way more than people realize since development basically dies without it. The fair runs at Jamhuri Stadium and pulls together government offices, NGOs, and business...

Zanzibar Electoral Commission boss George Kazi told stakeholders that running elections properly requires everyone to pitch in rather than dumping everything on his organization. The review session happened in Pemba at Makonyo Hall after their general election wrapped up, and Kazi said the...

People living across six regions near Lake Victoria are pretty stoked after hearing the government finally stopped dragging its feet on the Ngono River project. Former Agriculture Deputy Minister David Silinde told Parliament the feasibility studies are done, and contractors are getting lined up...