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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...

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THE 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...

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CONTRIBUTORS – 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...

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PRESIDENTIAL “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....

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AWARD 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...

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OPENING 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...

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RADIOS 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...

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BUILDING 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...

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VOLUNTEERING 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...

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POPULATION 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...

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HEALTH

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...

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THE 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...

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VIOLENT 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...

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SHANGAA – 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...

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VISITING 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...

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HEALTH

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...

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STRONG 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...

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HEALTH

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...

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ENERGY & 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...

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TRANSPORT

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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