EDITORIAL: We must act now if we are to save Dar

>For about ten years now, stakeholders, especially the three riparian countries sharing Lake Victoria, which are Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, have been dragging their feet over the plan to impose seasonal fishing in order to save Nile perch.

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.

>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.

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 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.

Reports that the Tanzanian shilling has been falling against the dollar for nine consecutive weeks is disturbing but not surprising.

>According to a story we ran yesterday, police in Sumbawanga are holding a woman who beat up her own child and then burnt his hand, ostensibly to teach him a lesson for stealing food. And, as if that was not bad enough, she locked him in a room for four days without food!

Tanzania might have found the solution to plastic waste, now that there is a push to use it to construct buildings and make school desks. A Spain-based non-governmental organisation, Born-to-learn, is already spearheading the use of plastic construction materials in Kilimanjaro Region.

>There are two major sides to any Cabinet reshuffle coin. Patriotic citizens hope that President Jakaya Kikwete’s latest changes will lead to better government performance.