In the process of building capable leaders, Mwalimu Nyerere Leadership School was inaugurated in Tanzania to start polishing up Southern Africa leaders starting March this year. The institution was established n honour of Tanzania’s founding father, Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere, aiming to provide comprehensive training to political party leaders and train youths to be patriots....
Areas to invest your money for maximum profit
Financial education is still needed and essential in the African community as many people tend to increase their expenses when they earn more instead of saving more. One rule to help you become financially stable is not to touch the excess money in your earnings but rather find a suitable way to put it away...
Op-ED: How can Tanzania benefit from Swahili diplomacy?
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...
The govt finally decides the fate of Ngorongoro dispute
As the fate of the Maasai’s living in Ngorongoro remains undecided, the government has vowed to compensate those who will voluntarily leave the park. The Prime Minister, Hon Kassim Majaliwa, made those remarks on Friday 18, 2022, at the Parliament in Dodoma. Last week the Ngorongoro issue had stirred an intense debate in the parliament...
Opinion: President Samia’s tactics of dealing with rivals
“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 right way to use emergency contraceptives (P2)
In the past few years, the spread of HIV/AIDs among youths between the age of 15 and 24 in Tanzania has gone up. About 28% of new HIV cases are from youth within that age group, said TACAIDS Monitoring and Evaluation Officer, Nyangusi Laiser earlier this month. These infections are somehow associated with using emergency...
Umasaini children’s long walk to education cut short
In the quest to build 15000 classrooms in the country by order of President Samia Suluhu Hassan, the move seem to be received with the great accolade by the people in different places across the country. The residents of Umasaini suburbs at the outskirts of Pangani District in the Tanga region couldn’t hide their excitement...
ACT speaks for the Maasai in Ngorongoro
Tanzania’s opposition party, the Alliance for Change and Transparency (ACT-Wazalendo), has urged the Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism to open talks with the Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority and the Maasai pastoralists community living in the park for a fruitful reconciliation over Maasai’s displacement. Since the proposal to vacate the Maasai from the NCAA came...