I am deeply saddened by the collapse today of a multi-storey building under construction in Eastleigh, a busy commercial and residential area of Kenya's capital, Nairobi. The building, believed to be about 18 storeys high, came down with many people feared trapped beneath the rubble. Nairobi police chief Issa Mohamud said more than 10 of its upper floors were still being built. Rescue efforts were hampered when police fired tear gas to disperse crowds after looting broke out at the site, as officers worked to clear the area and give emergency teams access. The surrounding high-rise buildings have made the work even harder. Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja said the building had no occupation certificate, warning that this may have cost lives. Building collapses are a recurring problem in Nairobi, and county officials have been accused of failing to inspect sites properly and make sure developers follow safety rules. An audit of nearly 15,000 buildings by the National Building Inspectorate found that 72.3 percent were unsafe and 4.8 percent were very dangerous. My thoughts are with the families waiting for news of their loved ones, and with the rescue teams working through the rubble.

Perhaps this comes from a lack of understanding on your part. Nkosi is not a Christian word. It means Lord, and it speaks of the same Creator that others call God or Allah. Allah, God and Nkosi all point to one Creator, and the Creator does not belong to any denomination. Religion is a human construct. The Creator is not.

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Malawi is leaderless at the moment. President Peter Mutharika has been in South Africa for more than two weeks on what officials call a "private visit", with no reason given and no date set for his return. It is his fifth such trip since he returned to office last year. He is there seeking medical treatment. Back home, Vice President Jane Ansah, who was elected on the same ticket as the President, is being pushed aside by his inner circle. She has been kept out of serious meetings, her office has been stripped of key responsibilities, and those around the President have made it plain that they do not want her to become president when the inevitable happens. We have seen this before. It is the Bingu wa Mutharika and Joyce Banda drama all over again. In 2012, the late President's inner circle tried to block his Vice President from taking over after his death, and Malawi was pushed to the edge of a constitutional crisis. It is sad to watch a country repeat the same mistakes. Malawians deserve to know who is running their country. bbc.com/news/articles/cmx28e…

Ova So by Koffee is my number one tune out of Jamaica, and England, for 2026. The track was produced by British producer Cadenza, who built it on a sample of Reggie Stepper's dancehall classic Drum Pan Sound and laced it with a touch of The Tennors' 1967 ska tune Ride Yu Donkey. The result is a rich blend of reggae, dancehall and ska, old foundation sounds dressed for a new generation. Drum Pan Sound was first released in 1990 and was produced by the legendary hit making duo Steely and Clevie, the pair who helped carry Jamaican music into the digital age. I spoke to Cadenza two days ago, and he told me that, sadly, there is no vinyl pressing of Ova So yet. Vinyl collectors will have to wait a little longer. Ova So by Koffe; piped.video/SHit0QmKq_o?si=Le_I…🔥🔥🔥 It sampled from; Ride Yu Donkey by The Tennors; piped.video/NdHpM0zMZT8?si=rzF_… And Drum Pan Sound by Reggie Stepper; piped.video/I9RtfbQgEVY?si=Y7kg…

Zambia has slipped further on the global rule of law ladder. In the 2026 World Justice Project Rule of Law Index, released this week, the country's overall score fell to 0.44, placing it 108th out of 143 countries, down from 103rd last year, when it scored 0.45. The drop in score may look small, but the five-place fall in the rankings tells a more worrying story, and it continues a downward trend that has been building for several years. Chapter One Foundation, a Zambian civil rights organisation, has warned that Zambia is among the countries that have suffered a sustained five-year decline in at least one of the three key safeguards against authoritarian rule, namely constraints on government powers, open government and fundamental rights. For a government led by Hakainde Hichilema, who came to power in 2021 promising to restore constitutionalism and respect for civil liberties, these findings should serve as a serious warning that the promise of 2021 is slipping away.

At current prices, a single Starlink kit costs $349, which means 500 units would come to just $174,500. On the entry level plan of $55 per unit a month, the subscription for all 500 units would be $27,500 a month, or $330,000 a year. Even on the top residential plan of $130, the bill would be $65,000 a month, or $780,000 a year. In the first year, the entire package would cost somewhere between roughly $504,500. It is therefore ridiculous for the American Ambassador to South Africa, Leo Brent Bozell III, to suggest that a sovereign country should break its own laws in exchange for 500 Starlink units for schools, a gift worth less than half a million dollars a year at its cheapest, and less than a million dollars at its most expensive. Surely I am sure South Africans don’t see themselves so cheap, and South Africa's laws are not for sale, and certainly not at that price. The level of insult coming from this American ambassador and Elon Musk is staggering. It carries the old colonial tone that says: "Accept being ripped off, you are African. How dare you reject a gift from the man who regularly lies to the world that there is a genocide in your country?" After what Starlink did in Ukraine, one does not even feel the need to debate such a paltry offer of 500 kits to the most industrialised economy on the continent. South Africans have their grievances with their government, but I do not believe they would ever trade their dignity for Starlink. The offer itself is an insult. SpaceX investor Ross Gerber, of Gerber Kawasaki, said that he is "disgusted…from a humanity perspective" by the restrictions placed on Starlink in Ukraine. He also warned of the damage to the company's standing: "…they've given everybody a reason not to use Starlink, that Starlink isn't reliable for national security for anybody but Trump."

This man is a crook. He cancelled his trip to Uganda because of Ebola. If he were a real prophet, he would have gone there, because that is exactly where real power is needed. Instead, he is now coming to South Africa to con the gullible and the desperate out of their money. A man of God does not run away from the sick. He runs towards them.

Total lawlessness! What a tragedy to watch, knowing that those responsible will get away with murdering human beings, looting and destroying property. Lives lost, livelihoods wiped out, and yet nobody will be held to account. Just another day in KwaZulu-Natal.

Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni, standing next to his grandson, the next in line to rule once his father, the army chief General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, has had his turn as president 🤣🤣🤣 In Uganda, the presidency is not won at the ballot box, it is passed down at the family dinner table.🤣🤣🤣 Succession politics African style!

What surprises me about the beatings and killings of foreign nationals in South Africa is that the police keep promising to investigate, yet everyone knows who stands at the front of these violent campaigns. It is Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma, the leader of March and March, and she continues to get away with it. One begins to feel that those in power are more interested in populism than in upholding the rule of law. For months, we have watched Ngobese-Zuma travel across South Africa, stirring up crowds in ways that predictably end in violence, and not once has she been arrested. In any other country, she would be behind bars by now for the chaos she has unleashed on the South African body politic. Instead, populist demagoguery is being rewarded by politicians hoping to harvest votes, while the country is dragged down the drain by the actions of one person. It is widely known which politicians and which foreign organisations are funding her. South Africa has a secret service, and if ordinary people know these things, the State Security Agency certainly knows them too. Yet nothing is done. Those in authority pander to uneducated mobs, unemployable clowns who roam the streets lying that foreign nationals are taking their jobs, and beating up Africans and killing them like what happened yesterday. It is disgusting. Now another life has been lost. The group responsible is known to be part of an organisation, and still I can bet you that Ngobese-Zuma will not be arrested.

An Al Jazeera undercover documentary that places Zimbabwean cleric Uebert Angel alongside Britain's far right has claimed its first scalp. The British Conservative Party yesterday suspended Jack Ross, a former election candidate and party member, after the film showed him discussing the cost of hiring contract killers and offering to broker the services of a far-right activist with alleged paramilitary links. The investigation, Contract Killers and the Far Right, began in 2021 when an undercover reporter joined Turning Point UK, an independent offshoot of the American right-wing group Turning Point USA. Ross is the organisation's chief executive and stood as a Conservative candidate in 2023. Angel, whom President Emmerson Mnangagwa appointed ambassador-at-large and special presidential envoy to Europe and the Americas in March 2021, is linked in the film to a £2,600 payment for a staged demonstration meant to create the impression that people in Britain supported lifting sanctions against the Zimbabwean government. The rally was organised in Glasgow during the COP26 climate summit in 2021. Al Jazeera says Ross acted on behalf of the Zimbabwean government when he arranged the demonstration, and undercover footage shows him agreeing to pay Allan Nesbitt thousands of pounds to organise it. The broadcaster describes Nesbitt as a convicted violent criminal with links to the Ulster Volunteer Force, a proscribed terrorist organisation, and to British far-right networks. It was Ross who introduced the undercover reporter to Nesbitt, a Glasgow man, and told him that for the right price, Nesbitt and his contacts could arrange anything from beatings and slashings to stabbings, shootings and murder. In another secretly recorded meeting, Nesbitt allegedly offered to arrange the killing of a fictitious business rival through his paramilitary connections, displayed firearms and claimed that money from contract killings could buy weapons for the UVF. The Conservative Party confirmed that Ross's membership had been suspended with immediate effect pending an investigation, while Police Scotland said it would review the documentary for possible criminality. Ross has denied the findings, saying his recorded comments were not meant seriously. Al Jazeera says the other parties featured in the investigation did not respond to its requests for comment. This is not the first time Angel has been caught on Al Jazeera's hidden cameras. In 2023, the broadcaster's Gold Mafia series showed him offering undercover reporters posing as criminals a scheme to bring large amounts of unaccounted cash into Zimbabwe under diplomatic cover in exchange for gold, while he and his associate Rikki Doolan claimed the arrangements had higher approval. His lawyer, Lovemore Madhuku, later said Angel had decided to play along after realising the investors in the documentary were not real. Three years on, the man President Mnangagwa sent to sell Zimbabwe to the West is back on screen, this time in the company of men who speak openly about the price of a life.

Times are indeed changing in global politics, and so is the way Britain looks at Zimbabwe. Who would have thought that the Speaker of Zimbabwe's Parliament, Advocate Jacob Mudenda, would receive a special mention in the belly of the beast, the House of Commons, the very citadel of British political power? Two things explain this shift. First, Britain has changed its attitude towards Harare because there is no meaningful opposition to speak of. Second, since the 2016 Brexit vote, Britain, much like President Trump's administration, has become far more interested in trade and investment, and only talks politics when its own interests are directly affected. It is called realpolitik. President Mnangagwa's administration has also moved to address issues that troubled London for years. It agreed to compensate white farmers who lost their land, and, unlike the Mugabe administration, it has toned down ZANUPF's anti-British rhetoric. There are still members of the British Parliament who are vehemently opposed to ZANUPF rule, but they now sit on the fringes of a policy that the new British Ambassador, Gill Lever, has framed around trade, investment and people-to-people links. What does this mean for the opposition? You only get recognised if you exist and are organised. Today's opposition is built around personalities, where one individual stands in for opposition politics instead of an institution, as the MDC once was. Until that is fixed, Britain will keep tightening its embrace of ZANUPF, for as long as ZANUPF does not stand in the way of British interests. The tragedy of Zimbabwe's opposition personalities is that they tell their supporters what they want to hear instead of what they need to hear. Lies, empty promises and delusions galore. It is no small feat for Mnangagwa to send a cross-party parliamentary delegation into the heart of Britain's Parliament, led by none other than the Secretary General of ZANUPF, who is also the Speaker of Zimbabwe's Parliament. Whichever way you look at it, this is a diplomatic win for him. Instead of pretending that these things are not happening, the opposition should be asking itself hard questions. How did things get so bad that ZANUPF now controls the narrative in the way we are watching unfold before our eyes? If you really want to understand the depth of this story, consider this. The Speaker who presided over the recalls of elected opposition MPs, the Speaker who presided over the Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment (No. 3) Bill (CAB3), and the Speaker who oversaw its passage into the Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment (No. 3) Act (CAA3), was warmly welcomed in the British Parliament. That is how far the opposition has lost the narrative. It is loud on social media, but absent from the corridors of global power where decisions are made.

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There are many people out there running scams using the names of well-known people, and I have become one of their targets. Several of my followers, and a friend, have sent me messages asking about something called "Nezetronixpro", which some are also calling "Nitrophonex". The scammers are linking this so-called income app to me. They are even using AI to create fake interviews, made to look as if I am speaking to a television station and promoting it. Please do not fall for this. It is a scam. These schemes have become so common that everyone should know them by now, yet I keep receiving messages from people asking how to register. Many of them are struggling civil servants and ordinary people simply trying to survive the cost of living. That is exactly who these criminals are targeting. I am not involved with Nezetronixpro or any similar app. I have never promoted any investment or income scheme. If you do not see it on my official page, it is not from me. It is a scam.

Al Jazeera's Investigative Unit yesterday broadcast Contract Killers and the Far Right, a documentary film that links the British far right to Zimbabwe's political elite. The film alleges that Jack Ross, chief executive of Turning Point UK, who stood as a Conservative Party candidate in 2023, acting on behalf of the Zimbabwe government, paid thousands of pounds to Allan Nesbitt to organise a fake rally in support of lifting UK sanctions on Zimbabwe. Nesbitt, a convicted violent criminal with links to the Ulster Volunteer Force, a Northern Irish loyalist paramilitary group, was filmed offering to have people killed for money. The investigation began in 2021, when an undercover Al Jazeera reporter joined Turning Point UK, an offshoot of the American right-wing group Turning Point USA. Ross has denied the claims completely, saying nothing he said was meant seriously. piped.video/zNXMcgFAlKI

Today, I want to pay tribute to Mad Minox (Godfrey Chafudzika) one of the founding pillars of sound system culture in Zimbabwe. He set up Silverstone Sound in Mbare, his home, and built it into one of the biggest sound systems in the country. Playing reggae and dancehall, Silverstone brought a fierce competitive edge to the culture that simply did not exist before. Anyone who was there will remember that a clash between Silverstone and Jah B's Stereo One was a mighty dancehall event to savour. People would talk about it for the whole week that followed. I remember when Mad Minox walked into my office in 1992, when I was a journalist at Horizon magazine. He had just set up the sound system and had come back from Canada, where he lived and where I believe he still lives. He came with General Bernard (Bernard Kamoto), and the two of them had so many stories to share. I hear that General Bernard is now in England. Today, I salute my brethren and a true sound system icon of Zimbabwe, Mad Minox. You can’t talk about sound system culture in Zimbabwe without talking about Mad Minox. More life King.

There are crooked CIO operatives in Zimbabwe who are approaching politicians and feeding them false information about me. This must stop. To any politician in Zimbabwe who is approached by a CIO officer claiming to have information about me, know this: you are being swindled. Do not give them money, favours or anything else in exchange for so-called information about me. I am an open book. I do not make deals behind closed doors, and I have nothing to hide. Do not allow yourself to be fleeced on that basis. They are going around telling politicians that they have information about who I am speaking to and the meetings I am holding, then demanding money in exchange for this so-called information. Let me make this clear: they are lying to you. They have no such information about me, and they are using these claims to extract money from you. Do not be fooled or manipulated into paying for fabricated intelligence. They are selling you lies and taking your money for nothing. To those running this scheme, consider this your final warning. The next time it happens, I will publish your names on my timeline. Stop it now.