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BET Networks, a subsidiary of Viacom Inc. (NASDAQ: VIA, VIAB), announced that it has hired Kay Madati as Executive Vice President and Chief Digital Officer. Madati, a Tanzanian citizen who has lived in Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States, will lead BET’s teams responsible for all aspects of digital, social and mobile strategy and oversee operations, content creation, technology and product development across the suite of BET Network’s digital platforms

Madati, whose appointment...

>For Olga Elikwita a Form Four student at Matimbwa Secondary School in Bagamoyo  District, missing school on certain days has become a routine.  Like other girls who come from poor families, sanitary towels are luxury items. “There are times I have to miss school because I don’t have sanitary towel. I prefer staying at home for some days since I feel very uncomfortable at school,” says Olga.

Millions of girls and women in Tanzania and beyond are subject to restrictions in their daily lives simply because they are menstruating. This is because they have no access to clean and safe sanitary products.

The World Health Organization is to set up a $100m emergency contingency fund following the Ebola outbreak, its director-general announces.

Both signatories to a peace deal in South Sudan are urged by the UN to allow shipments of food aid to reach a population in danger of mass hunger.

Only last year, the US European Command was facing some of the deepest cuts of any region in the US military.

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