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...
The minister of finance and planning, Mwigulu Nchemba, said that banks had gone through a difficult situation in the previous regime, adding that “they were suffocated”. However, they hardly admit to that fact. Mwingulu gave those remarks today, March 5, 2022, during the opening of the CRDB new Head Quarters in Dar es Salaam. Hon...
On May 8, 2021, the Tanzania Chief Defence Force Venance Salvatory Mabeyo announced an immediate halt of 854 SUMA JKT, a Tanzania’s National Defence Service Wing tasked with constructing a new State House in Chamwino Dodoma. The 854 sacked national service recruits were promised employment after completion of State House construction. Amid construction, they were...
At the High Court Division of Corruption and Economic Sabotage Offences in Dar es Salaam on March 4, 2022, Freeman Mbowe and three co-accused were declared freemen after spending nearly a year in custody on terror-related charges. The news took social media by storm, with pictures and videos of Mbowe’s loyalists seeing dancing, singing and...
Unprecedently, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania (ELCT) Karagwe Diocese Bishop Benson Bagonza, accoladed President Samia’s 1 year Presidency during his interview at the State House on 2 March 2022. The clergyman is renowned for being a vocal critic of the government about constitutional issues, the rule of law and human rights. “This has been...