EDITORIAL: Govts must act decisively to save Lake Victoria fish

Environmental scientists have sounded the alarm that Dar es Salaam City is likely to be wiped off the face of the earth by 2070. This threat can be put down to one thing--climate change.

Dwindling fish population in Lake Victoria, which has dropped by about 30 per cent, has continued to pile miseries in sales of processed fish fillet from 44,423 tonnes in 2012 to 42,827 tonnes at the end of 2013.

A good number of industries within the Lake Victoria Basin in Mwanza, Kagera and Mara regions have started embracing the concept of resource efficient and cleaner production aimed reducing pollution in Lake Victoria—thanks to the Cleaner Production Centre of Tanzania (CPCT).

By Mboneko MunyagaEast African News Agency
As East Africa inches towards integration, there is great need, as in the words of Professor Ngugi wa Thiong’o, for the region to also ‘re-member’ its broken past. One of the tragedies of colonialism was to treat the people in colonized lands as if they had no past or meaningful pre-existence.
Thus in the name of religion, the people were given new names or local names were Anglicized in order for them to appear ‘civilized.’ It is not uncommon that...

>It always astounds me when I hear politicians using the same worn-out tactics to address an almost perennial situation. I am talking of the problem of over-fishing, use of dynamites, poison and nets with very small ‘eyes’.

A boat said to have been carrying more than 200 people capsizes on Lake Victoria, with reports saying lives have been lost.

>The decline of indoor sports, especially netball, raises questions as to where Tanzania veered off the road. We are no longer assured of participating in the Nations Cup and the World Cup qualifiers, the most important tournaments when it comes to development of the sport.

Suicide is a phenomenon that is robbing us of the precious lives of young Tanzanians, who are inavoidably the nation builders of tomorrow.  Twenty-year-old Ezra Gerald, a Form Five student at Ihungo Secondary School in Kagera, hanged himself on Tuesday in the compound of the regional hospital. In  the suicide note, he complained that he had been admitted to the hospital without being diagnosed.

>The East African Community’s move to convene a meeting in Arusha to address the threat that the Ebola virus poses for the region is a step in the right direction.