Cassava diseases threaten livelihoods in Mara

Dar es Salaam. Kidney ailments threaten tens of hundreds of Tanzanians.

Musoma. The government has expressed a concern over the eruption of cassava disease in Mara Region.

For me, it was merely a trip to see a beautiful farm in a Tanzanian village. Like any visitor in the country, I felt the need to get ‘connected’ to nature! But, for my colleague, Sister Flora -- a registered nurse at Kibong’oto Infectious Diseases Hospital -- the farm plays an important role in her life.

 Makamu wa Rais wa Jamhuri ya Muugano wa Tanzania, Dkt. Mohammed Gharib Bilal, akiwasha Mshumaa katika Kaburi ya Hayati Baba wa Taifa Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere, kama ishara ya Kumbukumbu wakati alipofika katika Jumba la makumbusho Butiama mkoani Mara leo Sept 15, 2015 baadda ya kuadhimisha Kilele cha Siku ya Mara (Mara Day) iliyofanyika Butiama.Makamu wa Rais wa Jamhuri ya Muugano wa Tanzania, Dkt. Mohammed Gharib Bilal, akiweka Shada la Maua katika Kaburi ya Hayati Baba wa Taifa...

Nyanja Division in Butiama District, Mara Region is facing an acute food crisis as a result of a disease that has hit the staple food for thousands of residents, Cassava.

In Mozambique's bars and street stalls, the tipple of choice nowadays is a cold "Impala" -- a beer made from cassava rather than barley that is fast capturing a valuable slice of the African market.

Miongoni mwa maswali ya wasomaji wetu ni sababu za mtu kukojoa mkojo wenye rangi ya njano, kwenda haja ndogo mara kwa mara na hisia za maumivu wakati ukiwa na mkojo.

Inaweza kukushangaza kuwa baadhi ya vyakula maarufu na vinavyopendwa, mathalani matunda ya jamii ya machungwa, machenza, malimao, ndimu, na mabalungi, vinaweza kukusababishia hisia za kuumwa.