Parents gripped in fear as five young men, Kariakoo traders, went missing from Boxing Day when they left for a beach party in Kigamboni. Some said they got a communication from the young men that they had been arrested by police but never told where the police took them. Speaking to the Citizen, Longili Martin,...
Over 30 bodies have been recovered from River Yala on the western side of Kenya since July 2021. Haki Africa has reported that there have been mystery deaths and dumping of bodies and in recent weeks 20 bodies were recovered and stored at a mortuary in Yala county. Activist Boniface Mwangi went to Yala Hospital...
Tanzania and Burundi signed a multimillion-dollar deal to build a Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) linking Gitega, Burundi, to the Indian Ocean. According to a statement released by Tanzania’s Ministry of Finance and Planning, a 282 kilometre SGR railway line will run from Uvinza in Tanzania’s Kigoma region to Gitega in Burundi. Officials from both countries...
It is Monday, January 17, 2022, a day that most girls will forever cherish as they get a second chance to re-live their dreams. Not so long ago, in late 2021, under President Samia Suluhu Hassan, news that revived hope in so many young girls, the hope that they can finally relive their dreams and...
Two years ago, on August 24, 2019, an American Peace Corps employee in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania’s after having too much to drink killed a woman leaving two others injured in a series of car crashes. At the scene of the accident, bystanders attacked the man’s car and chased him on motorcycles as he attempted...
Mwanza’s Regional Commissioner, Engineer Robert Gabriel’s convoy crashes with a hiace at Busega claiming 14 lives. A car that was carrying journalists to the DC’s visit to Ukerewe to hand over various development projects faced a head-on collision causing the deaths of five journalists instantly. Some civilians in the Hiace including the driver also died...