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In what might become one of Hollywood's weirdest heists, E! News confirms that the custom Calvin Klein Collection dress made of over 6,000 pearls (that she just wore on Sunday) has been returned to The London Hotel in West Hollywood, where it was originally taken. The L.A. County Sheriff's Dept. stated that at approximately 3 p.m. today, West Hollywood Detectives received a call from a media representative, informing detectives they had received a call from an anonymous caller with information in regards to the stolen Calvin Klein dress. The caller advised detectives that it could be located in an abandoned bathroom on the second floor of the hotel. Detectives responded to the area mentioned in the call and located a black garment bag underneath the counter. Inside the garment bag was a white dress resembling the one worn on Oscar night by Nyong'o. TMZ, who first reported the story, said they were contacted by the thief who alerted them of the gown's return. The mystery...

Chart topping hitmaker Chameleone is one of the most successful artists in Uganda and across the East African region. The Wale Wale hitmaker has been in the game for close to two decades now and this has accorded him numerous awards and a huge bank account to live life on the fast lane. Born Joseph Mayanja, Chameleone is a car enthusiast and his parking lot is well packed with his favorite toys. He flaunted the guzzlers on social media while encouraging his fans to work hard. He stated, “Life life sweet life!!you can buy everything!!work hard. Only one thing you can never buy is u! You worthy millions of YOU.”

Yesterday afternoon, Mombasa policemen gunned down five suspected thugs along Moi Avenue, Tudor, after learning of their plans to rob a showroom in the area. A deadly thirty minute shoot-out ensued between the police and the armed gang with two pistols, three magazines and twenty five rounds of ammunition being found in the stolen car they were driving in. Speaking after the incidence, Mombasa OCPD Geoffrey Mayek said that he had received information of a vehicle carrying people who were terrorizing citizens hence acting immediately by trailing the suspects before they conducted their trade. Here are some photos of the lifeless thugs after their numbered days came to a sad end. Here is a short clip of the confusion and commotion the incidence brought to the area.

It seems that it is her time to shine because of late Huddah Monroe has not only been making great moves locally but internationally as well. On that note, Thee Boss Lady has flown all the way to Malaysia for business, leisure and pleasure as she likes putting it. Well, for the business part of it, miss Monroe will tonight be hosting the Aga Khan Awards Nomination Party at Club HQ in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Here is the poster of the event she has shared on instagram.

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THE government is determined to halve urban slums by 2025, according to Zanzibar Second Vice-President, Ambassador Seif Ali Iddi. Presiding over a two-day regional roundtable by the Institute of African Leadership for Sustainable Development (UONGOZI Institute) in Dar es Salaam, Ambassador Iddi said the government is working on a number of strategies to achieve the target. Facilitation of access to credit for urban real estate developers to improve the quality of housing, decreasing the cost of housing in urban and rural and creation of conducive environment for mortgages are some of the strategies the government is pursuing. Ambassador Iddi added the government is facilitating the establishment of Housing Cooperatives at village and district levels. “Critical to the success of these initiatives is the strengthening of the National Housing Corporation and the National Housing and Building Research Agency, where we intend to strengthen the skills for construction and management of human...

EVERY Saturday the Daily Blog carries a feature titled “In the Wild”. There would be an article telling us one thing or the other about animal behaviour in the wild savannah. I find these articles very educative as well as entertaining. So, this weekend, we savour how the writer delivers his message about the animal world. I have three articles in front of me carrying the following titles: “How catfish mysteriously benefit leopards” (10 January); “Serengeti annual migration best in the World” (31 January); and, “The Evolving Hippopotamus of African wetlands” (February 7). The articles are accompanied by fantastic photographs of animals doing this or that action. I like the photograph of mother and baby hippo apparently showing affection to each other. This is how the caption under this photograph reads: “The deadliest animal in Africa ‘offer a worm motherly’ kiss to its calf”. We are used to see adult birds feeding their young ones on worms but do young hippos, or adult ones for that m...

THE East African Community (EAC) Summit of Heads of State has vowed to urgently upscale implementation of relevant counter measures and directives to address current and emerging security threats in the region. In particular, the summit directed partner states to expedite implementation of interventions contained in the revised strategy for regional peace and security, as well as those in the counter terrorism strategy. The 16th Ordinary Summit held in Nairobi, Kenya on Friday, brought together heads of state of member states and saw President Jakaya Kikwete assuming the EAC Chairmanship from the host President Uhuru Kenyatta. According to a joint communique, the summit reviewed the current security situation in the region and also considered the security state in South Sudan. “The summit noted and welcomed the agreement on the establishment of the transitional government of national unity and also called for immediate and permanent ceasefire signed on February 1, this year, in Addis A...

PREMIER Mizengo Pinda has cautioned leaders of the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) against imposing candidates vying for leadership positions of their choice, but instead should leave the public to make their own choices. Mr Pinda issued the warning in Iringa where he is on a five-day tour of the region to inspect development projects. He said on different occasions when he made stops to address the public at Mlowa, Magozi and Kiwele villages in Iringa district. “This is an election year and it is a very important exercise for a democratic country like ours. Let us leave party members and the public to decide on who they want to lead them, they should not be influenced to elect leaders whom they do not want,” he said. He said that the candidates in question are for all posts from councillors to Members of Parliament (MPs) as well as those vying for the presidency. Meanwhile, Premier Pinda has urged Tanzanians to be God-fearing for the nation to have outstanding citizens for its prospe...

YOUNG Africans SC Head Coach, Hans Van De Pluijm has shown disapproval of his team’s performance at the Sokoine Stadium in Mbeya, despite earning a massive 3-0 win against their host Prisons FC on Thursday, in the ongoing Vodacom Premier League (VPL). The Dutchman expressed his dissatisfaction of his squad display in the match, but said he was happy with the results which saw his team leapfrogging defending champions Azam FC to the top of VPL standing. “I’m disappointed with the team performance in today’s (Thursday) match, but I am happy with the result we have obtain against our host,” said the Dutchman. Pluijm seems to be eager to see some improvement in performance of his team, which will take another Mbeya region top-flight club Mbeya City at the same venue on Sunday. Pluijm is determined to take all the six points in the Southern Highland city to consolidate his team’s position at the top of the table. Commenting on the game, Yanga Captain Nadir Haroub Ally said although they eme...

WHEN Tanganyika got her political independence on December 9th 1961 (before it would change its name to Tanzania on April 26th 1964 following the Union with Zanzibar), one of the major challenges it faced was non-availability of trained manpower. In one of his early speeches, the founding father of the nation, Mwalimu Julius Nyerere, said at the time of independence, Tanganyika had one medical doctor and one engineer! It was thus not surprising that because of the shortage of trained manpower, many important leadership and technical posts were given to people who had barely had ten classes of education. It was due to the shortage of trained manpower that the country is known to have appointed even taxi drivers like Mustapha Songambele as regional commissioners their qualification being nothing but their possession of enlightened political outlook. However, it hardly took ten years for the country to get most of its required manpower that would fill in all kinds of technical and other p...

WHEN a young Congolese entrepreneur introduced the first African-designed tablet and smartphone, some in the local tech community were skeptical. When 26-year-old Congolese entrepreneur Verone Mankou followed up the introduction of the first African-designed tablet with the announcement of the first African-designed smartphone, some within the local tech community looked on skeptically. This was Africa after all, and other tablets and smartphones claiming to be “African” were shown to be little more than Chinese designs with only superficial unique traits. It also didn’t help that Mankou’s company, VMK, was based in the Republic of Congo. Speaking at the third annual Tech4Africa conference in Johannesburg last month, Mankou touched on the difficulties of running VMK from Congo. He also stressed, despite the hurdles, why he thought it was important for an African company to invest in the local smartphone and tablet markets. “Only Africans can know what Africa needs,” he said. “Apple is ...