EDITORIAL: Should we admit we can’t end attacks on Albinos?

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TURKEY TO HELP TANZANIA'S ALBINOS AFTER ATTACKS
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DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania — Turkey will open a center in Tanzania to protect albinos from being marginalized and oppressed following the recent wave of attacks against people suffering from the disorder, Turkish foreign minister said Friday. "We will ...
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>The government has banned witchcraft-related activities and launched a special operation to arrest those linked with the practice.  The move comes after a four-year-old girl was abducted in Mwanza and amid a rise in attacks on albinos.

>In the very distant past, owning  and riding a motorcycle was a big deal, mostly the preserve of teachers, clergymen and senior civil servants.  Tanzania is now awash with motorcycles, largely as a tool for the bodaboda taxi business that  engages thousands of young men (women being a negligible fraction), who would otherwise worsen the unemployment  problem aptly likened to a time bomb.

>Grief. Shock. These two words best express the general mood that has dominated our country in the past few days and, perhaps, even as far back as 100 days. Tragedies have hit us left, right and centre.

>The recent public spats between the Tanzania Electric Supply Company  (Tanesco) and the Tanzania Roads Agency (Tanroads) are not acceptable in government agencies with a common development agenda for the country

>On Monday, Vice President Mohammed Gharib Bilal attributed the abysmal performance in Tanzania’s poverty fight to the sluggish growth in the agricultural sector.

>The killing of people with albinism, ostensibly for their body parts, is a crime so heinous that we must do all we can to bring it to an end. It is disturbing that there is an air of desperation around this subject, with more lamenting than working out a plan of action to save these precious lives.

>In its yesterday’s edition, Mwananchi newspaper ran on its front-page, a story on alleged plans to block the budget for the Energy and Minerals ministry.

>The liberation of over 7,000 children from forced labour in tobacco plantations in Sikonge and Urambo districts in Tabora Region makes both good and bad reading.