EDITORIAL: Chaos caused by rain is self-inflicted damage

>The long rains are here again, and the old, bad situation revisits us. Damaged roads, swept-away buildings and bridges, worsening of the normally bad traffic jams in our cities, especially Dar es Salaam… the list of woes that come with the opening of heavens is too long.

TheCitizen

Habari Zinazoendana

10 years ago

TheCitizen

09 May

Dar assesses rain damage

>After three consecutive days of heavy rains that caused flash floods in Dar es Salaam, authorities yesterday started assessing the damage caused by the torrent.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

14 Apr

EDITORIAL: Flood damage could be much less if we cared

>The long rains are here; the skies are opening up with a vengeance. Lives and properties are all at risk. As of yesterday, 10 people had died in Dar es Salaam while reports indicated that two died in Morogoro Region.

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

23 Nov

Africa suffers from self-inflicted blow: minister

If you thought African countries were mere recipients of aid from their developed counterparts, think again. The continent has a form of reversed assistance to other continents as well, a Zambian minister observed here at the weekend.

 

9 years ago

BBC

Fault may have caused Dreamliner fire

A fire on a parked Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 787 Dreamliner jet at Heathrow Airport in 2013 was probably caused by a short circuit, air accident investigators say.

 

11 years ago

BBC

Ebola 'caused Guinea fever deaths'

The Ebola virus has been identified as the cause of an outbreak of fever thought to have killed nearly 60 people in Guinea, government officials say.

 

9 years ago

BBC

Ebola caused meningitis in Scots nurse

A Scottish nurse who contracted Ebola while working in West Africa is recovering well after the virus caused her to develop meningitis.

 

9 years ago

BBC

02 Nov

'External influence' caused Sinai crash

The Russian airline Kogalymavia blames "external activity" for Saturday's deadly Sinai plane crash which killed 224 people.

 

10 years ago

IPPmedia

22 Jul

Lack of medical employees caused by greener pastures

IPPmedia
Lack of medical employees caused by greener pastures
IPPmedia
Tanzania trains many medical personnel but unfortunately a lot of them seek for greener pastures outside the country. (File Photo). The government of Tanzania has an acute shortage of health personnel to serve the community while it has many colleges ...

 

11 years ago

Catholic Culture

04 Jun

African cardinal laments evils caused by negligent fathers

African cardinal laments evils caused by negligent fathers
Catholic Culture
Inaugurating an archdiocesan year of the family, Tanzanian Cardinal Polycarp Pengo said that “the evils that we are experiencing today are mainly caused by negligent fathers [and] husbands who ran away from their responsibilities.” “St. Joseph obeyed the ...

 

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