Addiction in paradise: Seychelles battles heroin crisis

Daily Times
Fighting Heroin Addiction in Conservative Zanzibar
AllAfrica.com
Zanzibar, Tanzania — Jackie held her one month old child to her chest. If for no other reason, the new life pressed against her had to be why she stopped using. After eight years of heroin addiction, she'd been clean for three weeks. "Let me be clear, this isn't ...
Zanzibar police beef up fight against women abuseeNCA
Help boost Isles tourism, envoys toldDaily News

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I was visiting my sister who was baby sitting for her land lord’s child. But I never got to see his face. I was there for a couple of hours and all I got to see was the back of his head, a dark silhouette against the lit computer screen. I also heard him screaming and talking to someone on the other end of the mic headphones on his head.

A few years ago, Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda promised the nation that the government would stop purchasing expensive vehicles such as Toyota Land Cruisers as part of efforts to reduce government spending. We were told that the government would from the 2010/11 financial year not procure Land Cruisers and similar vehicles, and would instead opt for cheaper and fuel efficient cars like the Toyota RAV4

Nomsa Maseko reports on the political will and investment needed to kick-start new farming initiatives in Malawi.

Exploring a Quiet Paradise
East African Business Week
Mwanza — About 50 miles off the north of Mwanza port lies the small island of Ukerewe. The island is located in the Lake Victoria and harbours some of the most strikingly beautiful and untouched tropical beaches and landscapes in Africa. The amount of rich ...

Hawkers' Paradise and Other Promises
AllAfrica.com
Were Tanzania's presidential candidates to be believed, hawkers would be free to display their wares wherever they choose, small traders would have unlimited access to loans and education would be free at least up to secondary level. Those are some of ...

In 2012, before moving to Tanzania, I travelled from my home in America to the village of Litembo in the most southwestern part of Tanzania.

Zanzibar is increasingly becoming a transit point for timber illegally harvested on Mainland Tanzania, a senior government official in the Isles revealed in the city yesterday.

 A fleet of luxury speedboats that were rejected in Tanzania and dumped in Mwanza for seven years has become a tourist attraction in Kenya’s section of Lake Victoria, The Citizen can reveal today.