Tanzania: Women Warned Against Using Chemically-Produced Cosmetics
A Cosmetics expert and entrepreneur has warned that more women are at risk because of using chemically-produced cosmetics. Ms Albay Hajji, said at the Mwalimu Julius Nyerere Trade Fair Grounds yesterday that the use of make-ups, cleanser, moisturiser and lipstick if not carefully regulated could prove fatal to women addicted to the use of such chemicals. […]
Tanzania: 29 Perish In Singida Road Horror
More than 29 people, including a child, died when two long-distance passenger buses belonging to City Boy Company collided head on at Maweni village in Manyoni District, Singida Region. Singida Regional Police Commander Thobias Sedoyeka told the ‘Daily News’ that the accident, which left other passengers injured, some of them critically, took at around 3pm […]
Tanzania: Partners Launch Project To Safeguard Girls’ Rights In Mara, Mwanza
Several international and local partners have jointly launched the second phase of a project dubbed Mobilising Action to Safeguard the Rights of girls in Tanzania. The project is designed to curb multiple forms of gender based violence (GBV) in three districts of Mara and Mwanza regions. The targeted districts are Tarime, Musoma and Ilemela. The […]
Tanzania Set 30-Year Jail Term for Those Impregnating Pupils, Students
Dodoma — Persons who will marry or impregnate primary and secondary school pupils and students should expect no mercy from magistrates as the government fills all the loopholes for lighter penalties. The Parliament yesterday endorsed the Written Laws Miscellaneous Act (No. 2) Bill, 2016 to, among other issues, impose a jail sentence of 30 years […]
Tanzania: Female Genital Cut ‘Escalates In Tanga’
About 60 per cent of women, who attended health facilities for delivery service in Tanga city, were found to have undergone Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). According to the coordinator of mother and child health care coordinator for Tanga city, Ms Esther Kimweli, the data was taken from various private and public health centres in the […]
Huge Helium Gas Find In East Africa Averts Medical Shortage
The discovery of a vast reserve of helium in east Africa has allayed fears of a global shortage of the precious gas crucial for the running of brain scanners, major scientific facilities, and parties that require floating balloons and squeaky voices. According to independent analysts, the natural store of helium found in the Rift valley […]
State Won’t Reverse Stand Against Gay Marriage
The government will stand firm on its decision against gay marriage in the country and all other acts which are against the constitution and traditions. The Deputy Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Constitutional Affairs and Justice, Mr Amon Mpanju, made the remarks in Dar es Salaam yesterday at the Second Universal Periodic Review Recommendations- […]
How A Land Title Became One Woman’s Ticket To Freedom
Mkuranga — “I was a laughing stock when I was applying for a bank loan, but those who were laughing at me now come for advice” When Hawa Amiri decided to use her land title to ask for a bank loan to start a poultry business, her fellow farmers thought she was wasting her time. […]
Tanzania Starts to Build Its Own Helicopters
Tanzania has started to build its own helicopters in a project that will see the first batch of such choppers taking into the sky sometimes in 2018. Already, the prototype model, a two-seater aircraft is in its final stages of completion at the Mechanical and Engineering Department of the Arusha Technical College, which runs a fully-fledged […]
Tanzania: Kudos Deputy Speaker For Serving ‘The People’ Well
Debate on the performance of Dr Tulia Ackson Mwansasu, the Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly, has, since the inception of the Budget Sitting in Dodoma, gone viral. While some political observers and commentators say she is worth her salt, others argue, saying she is a chip of the old block. The holier-than-thou, mostly those […]
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