MPEMBA EFFECT-20,000 SOLUTIONS!
The London Times has reported on the results of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s offer of £1,000 to anyone who can explain the counterintuitive Mpemba effect on freezing hot water (described in TA...
View ArticleTHE DEATH OF A JOURNALIST
Coverage in Mwananchi Prominent Channel Ten TV reporter Daudi Mwangosi (40) was killed on 2nd September while a demonstration he was covering in Nyololo Village in Iringa region was being dispersed by...
View ArticleCONTRIBUTORS – RECENT CHANGES
Sadly, Valerie Leach who has been writing with great skill and in a remarkably all-embracing way on Business and the Economy has had to resign due to pressures of her other work as a Councillor on...
View ArticlePRESIDENTIAL “TWIPLOMACY”
According to a report in the Citizen on a study carried out by ‘Twiplomacy’ late last year, President Kikwete @jmkikwete is an active tweeter with an average of 2.52 tweets a day, and 26,762 followers....
View ArticleAWARD FOR PROF. MWAIKAMBO
Prof. Mwaikambo receiving aTanzanian Woman of AchievementAward in 2009 Britain Tanzania Society’s veteran Vice-President Prof Esther Mwaikambo has been awarded the 2013 Dr Martin Luther King Jr Drum...
View ArticleOPENING DOORS
Donovan (second left) in conversation with Princess Anne Tanzanian Affairs co-editor Donovan McGrath was invited to Buckingham Palace on 11 March to receive a Butler Trust Award from Princess Anne in...
View ArticleRADIOS BANNED
The Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA) has banned the Morogoro-based radio station Imaan FM and the Mwanza based Neema FM Radio for six months for broadcasting inflammatory...
View ArticleBUILDING COLLAPSE
Thirty six people lost their lives on Good Friday when a 16 storey building under construction in central Dar es Salaam collapsed. The residential building was at the junction of Indira Gandhi and...
View ArticleVOLUNTEERING CHANGED MY LIFE
by Samia Khatun In August 2012 I quit my well-paid full-time research job to volunteer with the Voluntary Services Overseas International Citizen Service (VSO ICS) programme. Practically every person...
View ArticlePOPULATION GROWTH
Historic census data for Tanzania and prediction of population growth 1952 9 million 1967 12 million 1988 23 million 2012 45 million 2020 (estimate) 60 million The recently released figures from the...
View ArticleHEALTH
by Ben Taylor HIV sector faces funding crisis The Executive Chairperson of the Tanzania Commission for HIV/AIDS (TACAIDS), Dr Fatma Mrisho, warned that donor funding for the fight against HIV and AIDS...
View ArticleTHE GREAT WAR IN EAST AFRICA
by John Sankey As the centenary of the 1914 -18 War is being commemorated, several items relating to the East African campaign have recently appeared at auctions. The most interesting is the...
View ArticleVIOLENT INCIDENTS
by David Brewin Human Rights Violations According to a report published in April by the Legal and Human Rights Centre (in collaboration with the Zanzibar Legal Services Centre), human rights violations...
View ArticleSHANGAA – SURPRISING THE US
by Ben Taylor A new exhibition of traditional Tanzanian art in New York, titled Shangaa is receiving positive reviews from art lovers and critics. It is “sensational” according to the New York Times...
View ArticleVISITING KILWA KISIWANI
by Peter Elborn The Great Mosque, Kilwa Kisiwani The Cessna landed on Kilwa’s grass airstrip, where two men were sitting in the deep shade of a big tree. There was no one else around. I stopped to talk...
View ArticleHEALTH
by Ben Taylor Tanzania meets child mortality target A recent report from the United Nations estimates that the under-five mortality rate has dropped by two-thirds between 1990 and 2012 – from 166 to 54...
View ArticleSTRONG REACTIONS TO CURBS ON PRESS
by David Brewin Newspapers on sale in Dar-es-Salaam On 9 October the Government placed a 14-day ban on publication of the popular Swahili newspaper Mwananchi and a 90-day ban on Mtanzania. They were...
View ArticleHEALTH
by Ben Taylor Teen pregnancy East Africa ranks second globally after West Africa as the region with the highest number of women reporting a birth before the age of 18, according to a new report by the...
View ArticleENERGY & MINERALS
by Roger Nellist New jobs in Tanzania’s gas industry An early indication of the type of career opportunities that the emerging gas industry can offer professional Tanzanians was evident from major...
View ArticleTRANSPORT
by Ben Taylor Flooded buildings on Bagamoyo Road, Dar es Salaam Dar floods cause traffic chaos Heavy rains in early April caused traffic chaos in Dar es Salaam, as major roads became impassable. At one...
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