Criminalising statistics is both undemocratic and unscientific

It Is Undemocratic to Mislead People
AllAfrica.com
A HOUSE divided against itself cannot stand. Yet this kind of collapse is what a cabinet member of the government of Zanzibar, Seif Shariff Hamad, wants to subject the establishment to and push the country to the brink of political instability and the ...

A sad incident was witnessed at Mwanza airport last Sunday, and left one wondering about the extent to which the struggle for self-determination and full human dignity for peoples of African ancestry is still unfinished business.

>As the debate on the controversial HIV/Aids Prevention and Control Bill that, among others, criminalises the intentional spread of HIV/Aids rages on

The Coast regional commissioner, Ms Mwantumu Mahiza, has directed health department workers and non-governmental organisations dealing with HIV prevention to prepare correct statistics on new infections in three months period.

A recent headline wouldn’t fail to catch the eye of avid followers of the performance, real and imagined, of national economies in particular, and what is glibly passed off as the ‘world economy’ at large!

Census statistics to be regularly updated - RITA
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The lack of accurate data for various development programs will soon become history, with the introduction of a better system that shall be providing accurate and timely statistics. The system of registration of vital events of life and in data collection is initiated ...

The world’s hottest place: Death Valley National Park

The highest air temperature ever recorded on Earth was 134 degrees Fahrenheit, at Death Valley National Park on July 10, 1913.

The world’s coldest place: East Antarctic Plateau

On the high ridge of the East Antarctic Plateau, the temperature can drop to as low as -135.8 degrees Fahrenheit, recorded in August, 2010.

World’s most populated city: Shanghai

At a whopping 24,150,000 permanent inhabitants, Shanghai is the single city that is...

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Statistics Act, Cybercrime law unconstitutional - rights group
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The Tanzania Human Rights Defenders Coalition (THRDC) has rejected as unconstitutional, the newly enacted Statistics Act 2013 and the Cybercrime Law. According to the THRDC, the two laws not only infringe on the freedom of media but also undermine ...

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'Statistics Bill infringes on freedom of media'
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With the National Assembly is scheduled to table media Bills early next week, members of the House yesterday endorsed the 'Statistics Bill 2013' which infringes on freedom of the media. According to the Bill, any media that shall publish statistics that are not ...