Farmers’ agony to secure loans worsening

Farmers in parts of sub-Saharan Africa are set to benefit from a $25 million (Sh40 billion) risk sharing facility from the Africa Agriculture and Trade Investment Fund (AATIF).

Climate-related disasters in the five years since global leaders last met to discuss climate change have cost almost $500 billion - three times more than for the whole of the 1970s, international agency Oxfam said Friday.

The African Union Peace and Security Council has temporarily stayed the deployment of peacekeepers to Burundi and instead voted to increase the number of specialised observers.

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Private handling of GBV cases worsening abuse
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Activists have opposed the attendants to victims of gender-based violence (GBV) privately by parents and guardians instead of law courts, saying this accelerates GBV acts. Wete District GBV coordinator, Khadija Henock told a workshop over the weekend that ...

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The poaching crisis is worsening in some African countries to meet Chinese ...
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The Tanzanian government's census of elephants in the country reveals some devastating news: Since 2009, the country has lost close to 60% of its elephants. The minister of natural resources and tourism Lazaro Nyalandu blames poaching for the animals' ...
Elephants' decline in Tanzania catastrophic: conservation groupChicago Tribune
Sharp decline of elephants in Tanzania is direct result of...

Tackle worsening street kids' problem, govt told.
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A Member of Parliament has called on government to do more to tackle the causes of worsening problem of street children in the country. The problem is serious,” Dr Christine Ishengoma (Special Seats, CCM) said in Parliament yesterday. “It has worsened in ...

Tanzania’s first laparoscopy surgery was greeted with exclamations of surprise and even disgust as more than 100 health workers from all over the country watched as South African Professor of Surgery Zach Koto got down to work at Dar es Salaam’s Kairuki Hospital on Friday.

Residents whose houses were demolished by Kinondoni Municipal authorities on Wednesday exuded frustration and shock following their loss and for being forced to sleep outside.

A fisheries officer, who in 2011 was to testify in over 40 court cases involving dynamite fishers in Tanga Region, nearly lost his life in an acid attack that left him deformed, The Citizen has learnt.