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 MORE
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 MORE
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, MORE
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 MORE
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 MORE
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 MORE
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 MORE
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 MORE
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 MORE
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 MORE
