LAKE ZONE: Sumatra: MV Victoria safe for operation

>Mobile phone traders here have criticised an operation by the Fair Competition Commission (FCC) aimed at seizing fake handsets, saying the exercise could have targeted agents of big mobile phone companies that import the phones instead of small dealers.

>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.

Islanders should expect regular healthcare services from November, 'Hospital Ship' project coordinators say.

>Brutal killings of elderly people have been reported in the Lake Zone ahead of the festive season, The Citizen has learnt.

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.

Watumiaji wanaotegemea meli ya Mv Victoria juzi walipata adha ya usafiri baada ya kusitishwa kwa safari ya kuelekea Mwanza hatua iliyochukuliwa na Mamlaka ya Udhibiti wa Usafiri wa Majini na Nchi Kavu (Sumatra)kwa madai kwamba ilitoroshwa bila kukaguliwa.

In the past week, Turkey has gone from an unhappy observer in the Syrian civil war to a full-blown combatant. Following two attacks by the so-called Islamic State (ISIS), the country has begun a bombing campaign targeting both the Islamist militants in Syria and Kurdish separatists in Iraq.

By Mboneko MunyagaEast African News Agency
As East Africa inches towards integration, there is great need, as in the words of Professor Ngugi wa Thiong’o, for the region to also ‘re-member’ its broken past. One of the tragedies of colonialism was to treat the people in colonized lands as if they had no past or meaningful pre-existence.
Thus in the name of religion, the people were given new names or local names were Anglicized in order for them to appear ‘civilized.’ It is not uncommon that...

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