DEAR DIARY: Albino killings have to stop!

>Enough! Seriously, it is enough. These albino killings, they have to stop already. Hapana, we cannot keep going like this. It is completely unacceptable. Do you hear me? Unacceptable! What we see in the news, it cannot be happening in Tanzania; in our own land and around our clock. What has gotten to us?

TheCitizen

Habari Zinazoendana

11 years ago

TheCitizen

17 May

DEAR DIARY: Stop killing innocent women

>Bring back our girls! It seems like everywhere I turn, that is what I see people chanting about after more than 200 girls were kidnapped by Islamic extremists, Boko Haram. The US First Lady Michelle Obama even posted a photo of herself holding a placard with the plea! People in the West, East have all joined hands to raise one voice, bring back our girls.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

08 Nov

DEAR DIARY: Men should stop street harassment

>I saw a video a few months ago, of a guy who dressed himself up like a woman and walked down the street to know how it feels like to be a woman.

 

10 years ago

Headlines &Amp; Global News

14 Jan

Tanzania Bans Witchdoctors To Stop Albino Killings

Headlines & Global News
Tanzania Bans Witchdoctors To Stop Albino Killings
Headlines & Global News
A string of attacks on albino people in Tanzania has prompted officials in the east African country to ban witchdoctors, the BBC reported. Share This Story. At least 70 people with albinism, a genetic disorder characterized by little to no skin pigmentation, have ...
Tanzania bans witchdoctors after albino murdersTelegraph.co.uk
Tanzania bans witch doctors to curb albino killings but 'ghost'...

 

10 years ago

AllAfrica.Com

22 Feb

Effective Plans Needed to Stop Albino Killings

IPPmedia
Effective Plans Needed to Stop Albino Killings
AllAfrica.com
AN albino toddler who had gone missing for some days in Geita Region recently was found dead with all his limbs hacked off. What a bad news, that Yohana Bahati, aged one, was snatched from the house of his mother, who was cut with a machete?
Tanzania's elections may be dangerous for albinosColumbus Dispatch
Albino Toddler Found Dead, Dismembered For Witchcraft Purposes, Police SayHuffington Post
Fears Persist That Violence...

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

08 Feb

DEAR DIARY: It’s not goodbye but see you later

>Leaving on a Jet plane is a song by John Denver, but most people will identify it with its first line All my bags are packed I’m ready to go. My mother loved this song and she hummed it every morning under the bougainvillaea tree as she took a nap. Sooner or later her demise hit us like thunder on a sunny day.

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

29 Aug

DEAR DIARY: Why would anyone kill a child?

It is hard to imagine that someone can harm their own child, leave alone a baby. It is human instinct to want and protect life instead of destroying it, especially that of a child. But things happen and sometimes, they happen to you.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

07 Feb

DEAR DIARY: Be encouraged to rise again

>A friend of mine wrote something on her Facebook page that put me on a reflection-mode. Her last year was a tough one and she had a sort of ‘theme’ to help her go through it.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

10 May

DEAR DIARY: Get tested before marriage

>To test or not to test, that is the question. Going for an HIV test can be a very frightening experience; the flash backs about questionable encounters, the crippling self-doubt and even mistrust of your partner can run through your mind.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

31 May

DEAR DIARY: Tuti, until we meet again

>Tutindaga Anania Mwambungu was my friend. We weren’t the kind that spent all weekends together, or chat over the phone every now and then. We only shared brief moments when she was alive.

 

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