After 16 years of Angela Merkel in the office as Germany’s Chancellor, she finally stepped down handing over the bags to Germany’s well known politician, Olaf Scholz. The former finance minister, Scholz who won 395 of 707 votes cast in the Bungestag lower house said his centre-left-led coalition will offer a new beginning for Europe’s...
Top 10 Universities in Tanzania
Webometrics Ranking of World Universities released its 2021 top universities rankings featuring over 10,000 universities across the world and top 100 universities in Africa. The universities were ranked in terms of their academic excellence, openness, impact, and other related fields. Tanzania universities did not make it to the top 1000 universities worldwide as the top...
Nigeria: Several feared dead as a truck ran over pupils
A truck driver lost control and ran over a group of more than 10 school children in Lagos, Nigeria claiming lives and leaving others injured. The incident happened on Tuesday, December 7, 2021, around 2 pm along Ogunusi Road at Grammar School Bus Stop, Lagos State. The truck driver was later arrested two kilometers from...
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Prison fire in Burundi claims dozens of lives
At least 38 people are killed and 69 others seriously injured after a fire outbreak in a jam-packed prison in Gitega, capital of Burundi today, December 7, 2021, Burundi’s Vice President, Prosper Bazombanza stated. The Interior Ministry of Burundi via Twitter tweeted that the cause of the fire was an electrical short-circuit. The incident happened...
President Samia among 100 most powerful women
Forbes has released its list of The World’s 100 Most Powerful Women 2021 featuring CEOs, heads of states, and women in different sectors making the most of it. The United Republic of Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan was also inked in the list on number 94 as the country’s first female president since the passing...
Mind-blowing facts you didn’t know
It is said that as long as you are alive you are a student of life. You will always learn something completely new now and then and the more you know, the more you realize you don’t know. Some of these things are shocking and others will entice you to want to know more about...
Op-Ed: David McAllister’s remarks on Tanzania are misleading
Dr. Naike Muhando Dar es Salaam Tanzania I am opening this short op-ed with Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere’s quote that, “No nation has the right to make decisions for another nation; no people for another people.” My reference is today’s Chair of the European Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee David McAllister remarks on Tanzania while speaking...