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The EU dropped 20 million euros on Gambia to juice up secondary schools and get more teachers trained with extra focus on girls and disabled students. Higher Education Minister Pierre Gomez said the cash hits right when they're turning Gambia College into a proper university and upgrading all...

Gambia just rolled out a National Madrassah Board to get Islamic school grads into universities and technical programs after years of them getting locked out of higher education. Higher Education Minister Pierre Gomez said the board fixes problems with broken infrastructure and curricula that...

A Gambian guy, Momodou Wurry Jallow, and a Sierra Leonean dude, Kaaba Yankee, both got slapped with 100k dalasi bail after getting pinched for allegedly jacking solar panels from the NAWEC plant in Jambur. Each needs two Gambian co-signers and they both said they didn't do it when they rolled up...

A crew from 4H Norway just wrapped two weeks checking on their partner org 4H Gambia, and said the youth and women empowerment work is looking solid. The Norwegian visitors sat in on the annual meeting in Farafenni, where everyone went over reports and locked in plans for next year, while the...

Gambia just wrapped up reviewing its plan to wipe out Peste des Petits Ruminants by 2030 after the African Union helped fund a weekend workshop. The disease hammers sheep and goats hard and basically wrecks the income for smallholder farmers who depend on those animals for cash and food...

Varna Mayor Blagomir Kotsev is getting sprung on 200k leva bail after his lawyer, Ina Lulcheva, argued the prosecution had nothing new since August and keeping him locked up was basically just harassment. The court agreed he doesn't need to stay in custody anymore since it's not serving any real...

Vazrazhdane councilors are raising hell over a 60 million leva heating network project in Sofia's Druzhba neighborhood after their audit found around 40 million leva missing from the books. Party chairman Deyan Nikolov says Toplofikatsiya Sofia can't explain where the money went and their...

Police ran up on former Malawian president Lazarus Chakwera at his spot in Area 10, Lilongwe, yesterday, hunting for four German Shepherds that apparently got jacked from State House. The whole thing was about some dogs. People are saying this petty stuff is exactly why African leaders won't...

BSP leader Atanas Zafirov just dropped an ultimatum on his coalition buddies from GERB, and There Is Such A People. He said his party's gonna bounce from the government if they gut all the social stuff from the revised 2026 budget. That means no wage hikes, no pension bumps, and no maternity...

Environment Minister Manol Genov thinks they can still get Budget 2026 passed before the year ends, after Borisov told the PM and Finance Minister to pull it back. He says this is just continuing the same process rather than starting fresh, and MPs might need to work through Christmas to get it...

Kornelia Ninova from Rebellious Bulgaria went off on Facebook after Borisov said the government was pulling back Budget 2026 to redo it. She called out all the ministers and deputies who kept saying this was the only budget that could work, and asked what had changed since they were all pushing...

Council for Economic Analysis secretary Plamen Nenov told Bulgarian National Radio that the country needs gradual fiscal tightening since the economy is running hotter than its actual capacity, according to central bank numbers. The economist said raising VAT is not ideal because it would spike...

Sofia hosted the annual AFCEA TechNet conference, where three European Commission-funded defense projects got shown off. The FALCON system uses AI to catch high-level corruption by tracking luxury purchases and crypto transfers from government officials with suspicious connections. Biomarker...

Lyulin district mayor Georgi Todorov told the Sofia Municipal Council that trash problems are coming back hard after the last ten days turned into a dumpster fire, with heaps piling up again. The region has 1,500 bins that need emptying daily to avoid a full meltdown but the system is not...

Sofia's mayor, Vasil Terziev, got his municipal restructuring plan rejected for the second time after city council members from everyone except PP-DB and Save Sofia voted against it or abstained. The proposal wanted to add a deputy mayor position focused on urban planning plus create specialized...

GERB boss Boyko Borisov said talks with employers and unions are back on after the government yanked their budget proposal following street protests. Finance Ministry meetings kick off with business groups KRIB and BIA plus the two big labor unions Podkrepa and CITUB, to hash out details, with...

Western outlets like AP and EuroNews covered massive Bulgarian protests where around 20k people surrounded parliament to block lawmakers voting on the 2026 budget that jacks up taxes and social security payments. PP-DB opposition coalition organized the rally against spending that hits almost 46...

DPS-New Beginning boss Delyan Peevski flipped the script after protesters clashed with cops outside parliament by asking if beating police officers counts as democracy. The politician did not deny allegations that one of his MPs choked a PP youth member with coat hangers but fired back, asking...

Academician Nikolay Denkov said one of his PP associates got jumped outside parliament, and they are filing with prosecutors to strip immunity from MP Hamid Hamid who apparently smacked the guy. Kaloyan Darvov claims Hamid choked another associate with a coat hanger after getting mad about being...

Bulgarian Oil and Gas Association chair Svetoslav Benchev told NOVA NEWS that running something as massive as the Lukoil refinery would be a nightmare for the government since it basically controls the entire economy. The guy thinks the budget provision letting the state grab it is more like a...