When asked who is the most intelligent person alive, the one with the highest IQ, most people will say Stephen Hawking. In fact, the Chinese-Australian Terence Tao is the person with the highest IQ in the world at present. With an outstanding IQ of 230, Terence Tao was born on July 17, 1975 in Adelaide,...
In 1965, Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara, the Argentinean revolutionary and critical member of the Cuban revolution, visited Zanzibar. This was at the tail end of his political and personal struggle two years before his assassination. Che’s visit included a dinner engagement with a young family whose own political journey had just begun. This visit marked an...
The Tanzania Railway Cooperation has stated that passengers boarding for the SGR during the whole trial time shall use electronic tickets on booking, while in the train, and on disembarking. The trial session will start on September 2022, beginning with the trip from Dar es Salaam to Morogoro. TRC’s statement was presented today, on March...
A few days have gone by since Freeman Mbowe was released from custody after controversial terrorism charges, economic sabotage and conspiracy against him were dropped by DPP. Mr Mbowe, known to be a staunch critic of the government and chairman of the leading opposition party in Tanzania, had opened up about his 227 days behind...
Summary: Tanzania’s decision to abstain the UN resolution of Ukraine sparked controversy across social media posing questions like Tanzania took that stance despite its traditional branding of being the advocate of peace and harmony? On March 2, 2022, United Nations General Assembly held an emergency session to respond to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The session purposely...
Radwa Helmi made history on Saturday as the first woman judge to sit on the bench of Egypt’s State Council, a top court in the country. Helmi, making her appearance in a Cairo courthouse, was among 98 women appointed last year to join the council, one of Egypt’s central judicial bodies, following a decision by...
The exchange rate means the value of a currency when converted to another during the trade. Our analysts painstakingly compared the currencies used across all fifty-four countries in Africa. This was done by converting 1000 in each of these currencies to the dollar. Now, before we go ahead and reveal the top ten strongest currencies...
Since 2017, more people have been killed in terrorist attacks in sub-Saharan Africa than in either South Asia or the Middle East and North Africa. By 2021 almost half of all those killed by terrorists globally were in sub-Saharan Africa, according to the Global Terrorism Index compiled by the Institute for Economics and Peace. The...
In the quest to recruit new fighters to defend their country, the Ukrainian embassy in Algeria posted on Facebook to invite Algerians to join the fight against Russians in Ukraine. The Algerian Foreign Ministry has ordered the embassy to take down their post immediately. The post on the Ukrainian embassy Facebook published on Thursday says...
A day after the release of CHADEMA chairperson Freeman Mbowe, CCM, through its Secretary of Ideology and Publicity Shaka Hamdu Shaka, stated that Mbowe’s release signals a new beginning in Tanzania politics and people’s solidarity. Hours after Mbowe declared a freeman, pictures of him chatting with President Samia at the State House in Dar es...