MY TAKE ON THIS: Kikwete’s belated views are apt, albeit untimely

You’re up on the hills. Everybody—yes, metaphorically speaking that is—has made it to the hillsides to eat Christmas and New Year with their kith and kin.

>The Legal and Human Rights Centre (LHRC) on Tuesday launched a film and a new song aimed at educating the public on the process of writing the new constitution. The centre will distribute the draft of the proposed constitution in all 20 regions. It will also distribute the film free of charge in all regions.

East African Community
The Secretary General of the East African Community, Amb. Dr. Richard Sezibera has sent a message of condolence to His Execellency President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni of Uganda on the tragic and untimely death of the former Chief of Defence Forces and Minister for Internal Affairs of the Republic of Uganda, the late General Aronda Nyakairima.
In a message dispatched today, the Secretary General, on behalf of the East African Community mourns the passing of “a great son of...

On Monday, The East African reported members of the so-called Coalition of the Willing (CoW) cancelled its meeting on infrastructure that was take place in Kampala in a bid to bring Tanzania on board.

It is in the youth that a nation pegs its future, that is why forward- looking governments lay immense emphasis on education and training of the country’s young. Such training includes exposing youth to leadership and decision-making at all levels.

The death of a 34-year-old Maryland woman who traveled to Brooklyn for a bigger butt has been ruled a homicide by the New York City medical examiner, New York Daily News reports.Kelly Mayhew, who worked at BET Networks, was injected with silicone in May 2015. Once she began to react negatively to the injections, the doctor fled the scene, never offering help to the ailing patient.“The cause of death is systemic silicone emboli due to cosmetic silicone injections of buttocks,” said Julie...

Tanzania is in a very sensitive period in its history. For the very first time since independence , Tanzanians are fully involved in drawing up a Constitution that, hopefully, would see them prosper more and transform into a middle-income economy.

On Saturday, Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe described as embarrassing the failure by African leaders to honour Tanzania’s founding President, Mwalimu Julius Nyerere, for his role in liberating the Continent.

Socio-cultural set up is undergoing rapid change in Africa. One key institution affected by the change is the family.