False Mkapanomics steps: we’re suffering

Tanzania still depends upon crippling handouts by aliens for around a third of the Govt. Budget year in, year out! This happens even after more than half-a-century of political independence under successive home-grown leadership derived from the same old, tired political stable man (CCM) and boy (Tanu).

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Habari Zinazoendana

10 years ago

TheCitizen

13 Oct

We cannot ignore the suffering of those refugees

“Sympathy’s easy. You have sympathy for starving children swatting at flies on the late-night commercials. Sympathy is easy because it comes from a position of power. Empathy is getting down on your knees and looking someone else in the eye and realising you could be them, and that all that separates you is luck.”- Dennis Lehane.

 

11 years ago

BBC

VIDEO: Ebola orphans 'really suffering'

Dauda, from Sierra Leone, survived the Ebola virus, but his father died and now he says he has nobody to depend on.

 

11 years ago

BBC

VIDEO: Why is business suffering in Kano?

A violent insurgency in northern Nigeria has taken its toll on the regional economy. But some challenges faced by local businesses precede the troubles.

 

11 years ago

BBC

VIDEO: How suffering made Mandela - Tutu

In 2002 when the BBC was making a two-part portrait of Nelson Mandela, David Dimbleby carried out a series of interviews with those who knew him well, including Archbishop Desmond Tutu

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

28 Jul

SONGA: Spare us the pain and suffering this ‘sikukuu’

>A treasured friend I partied with on Christmas Eve last year spent the holiday unconscious in a hospital bed. As we were winding up the festivity, we resorted to cursing him for ditching the feast we planned to enjoy together.

 

11 years ago

BBC

VIDEO: 'Harrowing levels of human suffering'

Dr Stacey Mearns describes the "shocking" conditions at a hospital treating Ebola patients in Sierra Leone in her first video diary for the BBC.

 

10 years ago

BBC

VIDEO: Libyans suffering in turbulent Tripoli

The regime of Colonel Gaddafi in Libya ended four years ago. It is now a divided country with two rival governments and its people are struggling to rebuild their lives.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

30 Mar

Cricketer team still confident despite suffering two defeats

The national cricket team captain, Hamis Abdallah, is confident that they will have something to celebrate despite making a wobbly start at the ICC Africa Twenty20 Division 1 in Benoni, South Africa.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

11 Apr

The plight of Tanzanian women silently suffering in China

Ignorance, education, ignorance; Africa’s problem mantra.What is needed and what is the reality? No wonder the Guinean woman I quoted last week said Ebola (the killer virus) was not caused by eating “bush meat” – but by God. God, forever.

 

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