EDITORIAL: Dar can beat cholera, but not when it’s dirty

According to Mercer Health and Sanitation Index, Dar es Salaam occupies position 12—with 40.4 score—among the world’s 25 dirtiest cities.

TheCitizen

Habari Zinazoendana

10 years ago

TheCitizen

14 Nov

EDITORIAL: Take dirty people to task

>We have said it here before. We shall say it again today. Dar es Salaam is increasingly becoming a city in which residents don’t mind dirt. It might as well be referred to as a city of dirty people.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

12 Jan

EDITORIAL: Ikulu bid: Policy ideas, yes; dirty politics, no

>As the excitement over the entry into the new year is wearing off, political excitement is gathering momentum in the form of  the race to State House. Against its backdrop is the fact that, in compliance with constitutional requirements, President Jakaya Kikwete  is nearing the end of his second and final term.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

21 Mar

EDITORIAL: Go, girls. Go--you can beat the odds and win

>There must be a jinx that holds back the national women’s soccer team, Twiga Stars, when it comes to the finals of high-profile competitions. In 2010, they failed to make their presence felt at the Africa Women’s Football Championship finals in South Africa. They lost all three matches in Group A.

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

14 Nov

EDITORIAL: Stars need our support to beat Algeria’s boys

Tanzania’s Taifa Stars trot into the 60,000-seater National Stadium today for their 2018 World Cup first leg qualifier against Africa’s second best team, Algeria.

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

26 Aug

Govt warns of cholera spread outside Dar

Health ministry warned yesterday that the entire city is now facing a public health threat following the outbreak of cholera. Seven people have died in less than two weeks and at least 230 others are hospitalised due to the waterborne disease.

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

17 Aug

Patient’s death sparks cholera concern in Dar

One person has died and six others are admitted in Dar es Salaam after suffering an attack of severe diarrhoea and vomiting, raising a public health alarm among city health workers.

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

28 Sep

Why war on cholera is proving to be an uphill battle in Dar

Efforts to control the spread of cholera—that has so far killed 17 people in Dar—may not bear fruit any time soon because public health authorities have failed to tackle the deadly disease at its sources, according to a survey by The Citizen.

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

18 Aug

Dar es Salaam cholera death toll rises to four

At least four people have died of cholera in Dar es Salaam since the disease resurfaced in the city last weekend. Twenty-six people had been hospitalised in Kinondoni District by midday yesterday with excessive diarrhoea and vomiting, up from six patients reported on Sunday.

 

10 years ago

BBC

VIDEO: How to beat traffic in Dar es Salaam

BBC Africa's Salim Kikeke reports on new ways to beat the traffic in Tanzania's economic capital, Dar es Salaam.

 

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