Transparency International released its annual report on corruption worldwide in January 2022. The report shows that the corruption situation is getting worse in developing countries; however, developed countries have problems too. The author’s recommendations include strengthening anti-corruption agencies, advocating for transparency in public spending and cracking down on financial crime. Some countries have taken a...
As the U.S. and its allies in Europe are currently designing sanctions determined to combat Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, there are a lot of references suggesting that sanctions have been ineffective in bringing Russia in order. E.U. swiftly responded with a raft of sanctions after Russia recognised the separatist groups and deployed its military troops. ...
Understanding diplomacy is not as complex as understanding rocket science. It’s simply the government’s methods and tools to engage with other governments. I presume you must have come across the term diplomacy. Etymologically, it comes from the Greek word diplōma, meaning “an object folded in two”. At the beginning of the 18th C, the use of...
“We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow.” Said the former UK Prime Minister, Lord Palmerston, when he was delivering a speech in the House of Commons on March 1848 Since President Samia assumed office on March 19,...
The eviction of Maasai from their ‘ancestral land’, as referred by many, has sparked an intense debate amongst Tanzanians and decried by many international human rights and environmental organizations. A big part of this debate is across social media platforms, particularly on Twitter, with others initiating online petitions to denounce the eviction of the indigenous...
In a meeting held on October 13 – 14, 2021 in Beijing, President Xi Jinping of China mentioned for the first time the term ‘whole-process people’s democracy’, a term he coined in November 2019 during his visit to Shanghai. Democracy is a common value of humanity and an important idea that the Communist Party of...
Transportation has been an issue for decades especially in Dar es Salaam as it is the country’s commercial city but in December the case is not the same as the whole country experiences the problem. Daily, Daladalas (Dar es Salaam public transport) are overcrowded and there is traffic jam everywhere. By the end of November,...
Money has always been a controversial topic in most relationships, be it among family members, colleagues, neighbors, or friends but the ones most affected are those who are dating. Society is currently against men giving the ladies they are dating money but why is it like so? Why is the emphasis on money and not...
Over the past decade Tanzania has been able to grow its Gross Domestic Product to nearly 7% annually. In 2020 alone, in the middle of COVID-19 the country’s GDP grew by 4.8% reaching 64.4 billion from 60.8 billion in 2019, making it one of the fastest growing African economies. Numerous reports including the Where to...
Beauty: “the quality of giving pleasure to the senses or to the mind,” that is how Oxford dictionary defines it.