JOE DYKE : Why Syrian ‘safe zone’ is unlikely to work

>MV Victoria that got technical faults while on its way from Bukoba to Mwanza last Friday night is safe to operate, the Surface and Marine Transport Regulatory Authority (Sumatra) has assured passengers.

>Tarime District Hospital faces an acute shortage of safe blood as well as blood-testing equipment, a situation that poses serious health risks to patients in need of blood transfusion.

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Future developments in Syria depend on efforts in looking for a political settlement with participation of Syrians themselves that will observe sovereignty, territorial integrity and national unity in the country, Algeria’s Minister of Maghreb Affairs, African Union and League of Arab States Abdelkader Messahel said on Thursday.

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Kagera. Local residents are asking the government to speed up the implementation of a project to hook up Lake and Central Zones to a safe water reservoir at Lake Victoria.

Cristiano Ronaldo walked onto the pitch for Real Madrid's league game against Granada with the son of the Syrian refugee tripped by a Hungarian journalist.Osama Alabed Al-Mohsen and his 7-year-old son Zied became international symbols of the refugee crisis when Hungarian camera operator Petra Laszlo was filmed knocking them over as they tried to escape a holding camp, sending them tumbling to the ground.Laszlo was subsequently dismissed from her role at Hungarian television station N1TV and...