EDITORIAL: Witchcraft: Change needed

>The superstition angle in the recent arrest of a suspected hardcore criminal in Mwanza merits reflection. Besides a gun and ammunition, police found body parts at his home.  Suspicions that many robbers count on witchcraft to facilitate success of their evil missions are rife.

At a media briefing at a hospital in Arusha, he said the sudden change of weather during the flight led him to believe that dark forces had been at work against him.

New rapid response tactics are needed to defeat the Ebola virus in Liberia, according to the charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF).

>A report released by a global organisation The Pew Research Centre April 15, 2010 named Tanzanians as the most superstitious in Africa.

>If there is a continent that should thank God, it is Africa. We are not so prone to natural disasters such as mega floods, which is one of the deadly impacts of climate change. What we suffer most from is food insecurity, which is also part of the impacts of climate change.

>The just-ended countrywide bus drivers’ strike, which held Tanzanians to ransom for over 30 hours, was a painful reminder to the perils of the free market economy.  Thousands of urbanites, among them those who ride a bus for a quarter of a kilometre trip and pay Sh400, had to walk up to 10km to work.

>Burundi, our neighbour to the west, is steeped in a huge crisis, thanks to the decision of President Pierre Nkurunziza, who has been in power since 2005, to vie for a third term of five years at the helm. The Opposition took the matter to a constitutional court and their petition was thrown out.

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Of The Tanzanian Change And Our Own Change By Peter Claver Oparah
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Of recent, the hyperactive Nigerian social media has been abuzz with heightened excitement of some Nigerians on reported changes that are taking place in Tanzania under President John Pombe Magufuli.
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International Business Times UK
Albinism in Tanzania: Witchcraft-fuelled persecution leads to mutilation and murder
International Business Times UK
Limi Luchoma, a 30-year-old mother-of-four with albinism, is a recent survivor of a brutal attack. In May, she was asleep in the home she shared with her father and her children in a village in the western Katavi Region when two men broke in. Locking the door ...
World albinism awareness day to be observed in Kikwetespyghana.com

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