27th Jul 10

 IT'S a sorry state of affairs in Tarime District as some secondary school students are trading  pens and books for picks and shovels by  abandoning school in search of gold at the near-by
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27th Jul 10

 OUTDATED customs and cultural practices of marrying off girls at a tender age have continued to deny school girls the right to education in Tarime and Serengeti Districts of Mara Region.   A
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8th Jun 10

WITH the war against malaria under the government-rolled Malaria Haikubaliki campaign intensifying, following a three-day insecticide-treated mosquito nets (ITNs) distribution exercise held recently, beneficiaries
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13th Apr 10

MALINDI fish market in Zanzibar's Stone Town is a bustle of economic activity, but the prospect of a quick buck attracts too many children who should be in school, say activists. "The children
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13th Apr 10

FROM the outside, there is little that sets the three-bedroom house apart from its neighbours in this suburb of Stone Town. But inside, the building offers a rare lifeline to two dozen young men from across
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13th Apr 10

TANZANIA'S unique mountain forests are threatened by large-scale tree-cutting. It's estimated that the eastern African country has already lost a third of its natural forest cover. Now, efforts are on
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6th Apr 10

THE government has been repeatedly announcing that it is in the process of reviewing the Public Leadership Code of Ethics Act of 1995 with the intention of amending it to allow for the easier identification
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16th Mar 10

PREGNANCY is the leading cause of dropouts for school girls in Tanzania. And a national law forbidding young mothers to return to school after giving birth did not make it any easier for them to continue
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16th Mar 10

CHANGES in weather patterns have turned agriculture into a gamble with nature for Tanzanian farmers. Prolonged droughts and floods have made the lives of small-scale farmers, who don't have access to irrigation,
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9th Mar 10

THE Tanzania Bureau of Standards should set standards for solid waste management which have to be adhered to by all local government authorities when they discharge their duties to ensure consistency of
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1st Mar 10

IT is well known that to achieve continuous success and growth, families must pass on the entrepreneurial mindsets and capabilities that enable them to create new streams of social and economic wealth
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1st Mar 10

THE purpose of screening is to identify pre-clinical and asymptomatic cases of a disease in a population at risk as opposed to making a diagnosis based on a patient’s presentation with symptoms and
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1st Mar 10

LACK of national standards and policies on solid waste management and inadequate monitoring and evaluation of solid waste activities by government have been blamed for the perennial problem of filthiness
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22nd Feb 10

IT has been a common view among political thinkers that there exists a special relationship between moral goodness and legitimate authority. Many political authors believed that the use of political power
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22nd Feb 10

THIS year's World Wetlands Day celebrations in Tanzania focused on a meeting to support the conservation of Lesser Flamingo Phoenicopterus minor (Near Threatened) through the completion of a National Single
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22nd Feb 10

AS the war against malaria continues and with yet another battle, the Malaria Haikubaliki campaign having been launched last week, Tanzania seems to be running out of ammunition and willpower to win the
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15th Feb 10

Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania is the tallest mountain in Africa, stretching 19,340 feet above sea level. An estimated 25,000 people attempt to climb the mountain annually. About 10 people per year die
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8th Feb 10

WITH the HIV /AIDS pandemic continuing to wreak havoc in this country the number of orphans continues to increase significantly. Currently, it is estimated that there are 2,400,000 orphans in Tanzania
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25th Jan 10

TANZANIA is this year set to become one of the first African countries to achieve universal access to mosquito nets and affordable treatment for all of its citizens as it struggles to fight malaria, a
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25th Jan 10

RECENT happenings around the world have reinforced the truth that the role of trees in sustaining life can never be overstated. From the Copenhagen climate conference to the struggle to conserve the Mau
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13th Jan 10

OF the total eight parts of the proposed new law set to be tabled in parliament anytime soon, various political analysts see the key ones as being Part IV (dealing with Accountability issues), Part V (outlining
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13th Jan 10

THE introduction of modern fishing methods transformed the fishing industry developing it into backbones of some economies. Besides contributing significantly to the gross domestic product of many countries
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13th Jan 10

THE predicted El Nino rains are here now and have started to ravage some parts of this country, destroying property, and infrastructure besides catching wananchi unawares, despite warnings that the rains
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4th Jan 10

AS the nation swings into election year mode, step one of the formal preparatory process has already been made with the government's introduction just before Christmas of the draft bill for the much-anticipated
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4th Jan 10

FOR many years, Tobacco farming and the use of products manufactured out of the plant have provided lively debates around the world. In Tanzania, the many people who are not smokers regard Tobacco 
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4th Jan 10

THE situation is unbearable as heaps of rotting garbage continue piling uncollected. The garbage is not only an eyesore but an inconvenience to residents and passers-by who are forced to brave a pungent
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28th Dec 09

THE zeal to look beautiful and a colonial mentality that white skin is superior is fast driving Tanzanian women into their graves as they risk their lives by using skin lightening creams that in the end
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21st Dec 09

LOOKING back at the stormy upheavals of the local political scene during this past year, the big question that comes to mind is: How much worse can it get in 2010?  And the mere fact that it's going
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21st Dec 09

THE advent of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) about two decades ago, did not only send shocking waves within the medical sector but rendered scientists useless as they battled in vain to find a
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14th Dec 09

THE place is filthy, everything in the vicinity has been painted black by dust from a nearby ramshackle. An old man dressed in tattered, soot coloured clothes is seated besides a heap of bags loaded with
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7th Dec 09

FIFTY-year-old Pusindawa Ndaskoi starts his day feeling weary and hungry. But coming out of his hut, he puts on a brave face and scans the blue sky that apparently promises nothing better than the previous
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24th Nov 09

GONE are the days when women alone used to seek advice in matrimonial problems, nowadays things have changed as centres offering legal aid confirm that they receive a good number of men seeking legal aid. In
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23rd Nov 09

THE  sun is setting slowly over Dar es Salaam's Tabata Chang'ombe neighbourhood. Ameenah and Skukulu Juma lean against the corrugated iron walls of their makeshift charcoal shop. The earth is black.
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18th Nov 09

OCTOBER 27, this year, could be recorded as one of the most unpleasant days for a 38-year-old pregnant woman, Mwajabu Hemed Mbeju, of Kimbemba sub-location, situated about eight kilometers from Liwale
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13th Nov 09

PROSTATE cancer is a form of cancer that develops in the prostate, a gland in the male reproductive system. The cancer cells may metastasize (spread) from the prostate to other parts of the body, particularly
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12th Nov 09

One will ask: “Why should I bother pay 5,000/- or 10,000/- for a birth certificate? Is there any importance to have it, after all I have a passport.” A pilot project for birth certificates
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