COVER: The cost of unsafe abortion

When I visited Albino Mdemu on the evening of November 25 last year, he had just finished solving a relationship dispute. The case in which a woman was being accused of over-staying in her companion’s house is just one among the many cases that Mdemu deals with from time to time.

Ninety-seven per cent of gold-rich Geita Region residents depend on unsafe water from boreholes. The situation endangers their health.

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Burundi Refugees Giving Birth in Unsafe Conditions
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Kigoma — Women are giving birth on ferries, in temporary shelters and en route to Tanzania's Nyarugusu refugee camp, say relief workers responding to the Burundi crisis, which has sent tens of thousands of people fleeing across the country's borders.
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Over 45 per cent of Tanzanians feel unsafe walking in their neighbourhoods due to increased crime incidents according to a report launched yesterday.

>About 10 per cent of youth in Dar es Salaam engage in unsafe sex, as a result they are a major stumbling block in the fight against HIV/Aids; a new study has shown.

A Somali woman allegedly raped on Nauru denies claims she did not want an abortion after being flown from Australia back to the island, media reports say.

A Kenyan nurse is sentenced to death after being found guilty of carrying out an abortion five years ago on a woman who later bled to death.

Student dies after botched abortion
Daily News
FEMALE student of Eden Hill Institute in Kwamfipa in Kibaha district, Coast Region, Atufike Gabriel (20), was found dead in her boyfriend's room yesterday, in what is suspected to be a botched abortion attempt. According to a local government official, ...

Police hold two over abortion in Dar
Daily News
POLICE in Dar es Salaam are holding two girls, Hadija Abdallah (18) and Husna Omar, over alleged abortion of a four-month pregnancy. The crime was allegedly committed on Saturday at Yombo Kilakala area in Temeke Municipality, in a house belonging to ...