The government’s domestic debt has risen over 52% in the last four years. The official data reveal that the debt has been dramatically increasing as it stood by Sh. 13 trillion in January 2018 and recorded at Sh. 25 trillion by January 2022. According to Mr Emmanuel Turuba, the permanent treasury secretary, the government uses...
Paul Makonda, the former Dar es Salaam regional commissioner, is under furnace for allegations of conspiracy to illegally seize a billion shilling property said to be owned by GSM tycoon Mr Gharib Said Mohammed. “Makonda is avid to own one of Mr Gharib’s bungalows located between Masaki and Oysterbay”. People close to Mr Gharib told...
In 1965, Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara, the Argentinean revolutionary and critical member of the Cuban revolution, visited Zanzibar. This was at the tail end of his political and personal struggle two years before his assassination. Che’s visit included a dinner engagement with a young family whose own political journey had just begun. This visit marked an...
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...
Most of us know that white people and the Caucasians are the only race producing blondes. At our very unbeknownst, we have no idea that there is a group of dark skin people that also possess blonde hair known as Melanesians. Jules Dumont D’Urville first coined the term “Melanesia” in 1832 for a particular group...
Nigeria’s government has vehemently condemned the unfair treatment of its citizen and other Africans in Ukraine. In the few days, video clips and pictures have circulated online showing African racially segregated from boarding trains when trying to escape the war-tone zone in Ukraine. Isaac, a Nigerian man, gave bitterly testimony of the situation that the...