In Tanzania, using mobile technology to reunite families

UNICEF Tanzania’s Representative a.i., Paul Edwards and Freddie Manento, CEO of Push Mobile, sign a partnership to send life-saving information on cholera by SMS to over 10 million Tanzanian mobile users. (Credits: UNICEF Tanzania/2015/Bisin).

Today, Tanzania’s Government, UNICEF and Push Mobile, a mobile communication company providing SMS aggregation services across all the available mobile networks in Tanzania, have signed a partnership to reach over 10 million Tanzanian mobile users...

Researchers in Tanzania are banking on the use of mobile communications technology as a new solution for tackling the country’s health challenges, it has been revealed.

Tanzania is yet to benefit from mobile phone technology in the fight against malaria. Handsets, which were previously used for only calling and sending short text messages, are now used in improving the quality of life socially and economically.

With smartphone penetration ramping up across Africa, the continent’s businesses have an opportunity to use mobile technology to become more efficient, productive, and responsive in the way they do business.

According to the Ericsson Mobility Report for 2015 (http://www.apo.af/uwS8Ft), there were more than 910 million mobile subscriptions in Africa by the first quarter of 2015. A growing number of these mobile users are now walking around with powerful smart devices that give them access to...

Push Mobile Managing Director, Freddie Manento (L) exchange documents contract with Apalya Technologies International Business, Rishabh Gunjal, Apalya to provide best-in-class mobile video solutions across East and Central Africa. 
Dar es Salaam. Tanzania’s leading interactive mobile communications technology provider, Push Mobile has partnered with Apalya Technologies, South Asia’s leading technology platform provider to enhance mobile video and live TV streaming experience in Tanzania and...

Butiama. Mr Charles Makongoro Nyerere, son of Mwalimu Nyerere, yesterday joined field that is getting increasingly crowded with aspirants eying the CCM ticket for the presidency, declaring himself the best-placed person to hold the party together and uproot corruption in the country.

 

Charles Brewer, Managing Director for DHL Express Sub-Saharan Africa.

*Ashish Thakkar, Founder and CEO of Mara Group, gave conference delegates interesting and thought-provoking insights

 DHL (http://www.dpdhl.com), the world’s leading logistics service provider, held its 5th annual Global Technology conference in Dubai last month, featuring a number of key sessions on doing business in Africa.

Under the theme of “Connecting Markets, Trends & People”, the conference hosted some 300...

Children with albinism are segregated in Tanzania, often cut off from families
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GENEVA – The U.N.'s human rights office says the Tanzanian government's system of rounding up children with albinism in state-run education centers isn't adequately protecting them from widespread superstitious beliefs that human albino body parts will ...

Tanzania: Demolitions - Families Heed Call to Vacate
AllAfrica.com
Dar es Salaam — Some Msimbazi residents whose houses are up for demolition have heeded the call to vacate during a grace period given by the authorities. The government last week postponed the demolition exercise in Dar es Salaam, giving residents ...