🚨 JUST IN: President Emmerson Mnangagwa has signed the Constitutional Amendment Act into law.
The law passed both houses of Parliament, with the lower House approving final amendments last week.
After the signing, the Act has now been gazetted.
Key changes:
🔴 The President will now be elected by Parliament, not by direct public vote.
🔴 The terms of the President and MPs increase from five to seven years.
🔴 The Attorney-General must meet the qualifications of a Supreme Court judge.
🔴 The President can appoint 10 more senators, increasing the Senate from 80 to 90 members.
🔴 Voter registration moves from ZEC to the Registrar-General, while a new commission takes over constituency and ward delimitation.
🔴 Public interviews for judicial appointments are removed.
🔴 A Vice-President acts as President until Parliament elects a replacement within 30 days.
🔴 A new office of Judge President of the Supreme Court is created
🔴 The Court may hear appeals involving important points of law if it grants leave
This is a sad incident, but we have forwarded as received:
Hello good morning,
I am a cab driver and the worst happened yesterday to me.
I got a trip request, a lady from mirema syndicate said she was going to kitengela.
She said her phone was off and yes I didn't see any red flags.
I started the trip and she said she was going to pick something then return, so it was a sort of a round trip.
Little did I know that it was a trap.
The moment we reached her destination I don't know what happened I lost my consciousness immediately and it was around 11 pm.
Luckily I woke up safe where I had parked the vehicle but all valuables that I had were gone.
I was feeling dizzy more than a drunkard but I said to my self let me try and get home.
It was the day of the devil, I caused an accident, luckily I wasn't hurt.
Plot twist is that, one of my phone's has the feature that, when you try to unlock it, it takes a selfie.
She got away with my Samsung A17 and iphone 14pro max.
My brothers and sisters from the @DCI_Kenya and @NPSOfficial_KE please help this Kenyan.
All your brains, your foolishness, and even the hair that’s grown all the way to your private parts still can’t reach a quarter of my brain. Enda uoge!!
🦔Microsoft canceled its internal Claude Code licenses this week after token-based billing made the cost untenable, even for a company with effectively infinite cloud resources. Uber's CTO sent an internal memo warning the company burned through its entire 2026 AI budget in just four months. American AI software prices have jumped 20% to 37%, and GitHub (owned by Microsoft) is dropping flat-rate plans for usage-based billing across its products.
My Take
The AI subsidy era is ending in real time. The same company that put $13 billion into OpenAI and built the Azure infrastructure powering most of Anthropic's compute just looked at the bill from a competitor's coding tool and decided it was not worth paying. That is not a productivity failure on Anthropic's end. Token-based pricing is forcing every enterprise customer to confront the actual cost of running these models at scale, and the number turns out to be far higher than the flat-rate experiments suggested.
This ties directly to my Gemini Flash post yesterday. Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google all raised effective prices in the last six months. Enterprises that built workflows assuming AI costs would keep falling are now watching annual budgets evaporate in months. Two outcomes look likely from here. Either enterprises scale back AI usage to fit budgets, which slows the revenue ramp the labs need to justify their valuations ahead of IPOs, or the labs cut prices and absorb the losses, which makes the unit economics worse at exactly the wrong moment. Both paths land in the same place, the numbers stop working, and somebody has to take the writedown.
Hedgie🤗
There was a significant tax administration announcement at the #TaxSymposiumKE convened by @ntvkenya's #BusinessRedefined & @BD_Africa this morning.
The Kenya Revenue Authority (@KRACare) has announced relaxation of the demand for Supplier's PIN for non-eTIMS filings. Provision of the Supplier's PIN has been made optional effective May 17th.
The implication here is that missing PINs will no longer bar taxpayers from claiming valid business expenses.
The authority further indicates that the demand for PIN of auditor has also been done away with.
Singapore’s Foreign Minister, Dr Balakrishnan casually explaining how he built his own AI agent (a 2nd brain for diplomacy) using Claude & WhatsApp integration etc. on a Raspberry Pi
“You cannot govern a technology you have only been briefed on.” 🇸🇬