Anti-fgm pact most welcome

Tanzania has the dubious distinction of having the highest child marriage rates in the world. This should embarrass us all. It is estimated that two out of five girls here are married off before they turn 18. Thousands drop out of school due to early motherhood, when many of them are barely more than children themselves

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Habari Zinazoendana

10 years ago

TheCitizen

03 Nov

EDITORIAL: Sustain the Anti-FGM drive

Culture is the soul of the nation, but that is putting it broadly. Otherwise, a case-by-case assessment of the cultures and traditions of Tanzania’s 120-plus tribes would reveal that, some of them are barbaric, loathsome and should be discarded.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

01 Dec

How anti-FGM drive earned me a boot

Female circumcision has for long been regarded as a symbol of respect and maturity among the Kurya, one of the largest communities in Mara Region.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

10 Oct

A CHAT FROM LONDON: London welcomes, supports anti-FGM push in Tanzania

>Wednesday, October 15, 2014...A tiny delegation of well educated women; modest and intelligent, will be welcomed into one of the most powerful rooms in the northern hemisphere. First is Mrs Rhobi Samwelly (pictured), mother of four children, hailing from Butiama, Mara Region.

 

10 years ago

Vijimambo

06 Jan

PRESS RELEASE: FGM GRADUATION IN MARA “Mara youth: vessels and voices of change in ending FGM”

Masanga, 05 January 2015 – As efforts to end female genital mutilation (FGM) are intensifying in the country, 836 young people– 634 girls and 202 boys from Tarime and Loliondo districts, have gone through alternative rites of passage training. The young people were awarded certificates of merit during a graduation ceremony organized by Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent De Paul on Monday 5th January 2015 and officiated by Minister of Labour and Employment, Hon. Gaudensia Kabaka.

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9 years ago

TheCitizen

19 Nov

Xi warns of pact ‘fragmentation’

China’s President Xi Jinping Wednesday urged Asian economies to sign up to its free trade agreement, warning that rival pacts risked causing “fragmentation” among regional nations.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

11 Feb

What pact on tourism signed in 1985 says

>Content of the 1985 bilateral agreement on tourism between Tanzania and Kenya -- which is at the centre of the current tourist movement standoff between the two countries -- can be reproduced today.

 

11 years ago

East African Business Week

14 Jul

Tanzania signs EAC pact first

Tanzania signs EAC pact first
East African Business Week
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania - The government has said that Tanzania's ratification of the East African Community (EAC) Monetary Union Protocol on June 25th 2014 demonstrates that the country is not a stumbling block to regional integration. The Deputy ...
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9 years ago

TheCitizen

17 Sep

Airline in pact over wildlife protection

Fastjet Tanzania has entered into an agreement with AviAssist of the Netherlands to deliver training on wildlife protection to airport officials. The airline’s general manager Jimmy Kibati said yesterday that Fastjet would hold the training in its head office in Dar es Salaam.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

09 May

Tanzania to get Sh170bn aid in new pact with EU

 Tanzania is to received a total of Sh170 billion from European Union (EU) and other donors for financing agriculture and infrastructure projects.

 

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