Of The Citizen’s decade of growth, shining

Efforts to emancipate women from oppression shackles started many years ago. The efforts centred on challenges women face economically, gender based violence and outdated norms, to name but a few.

>Football is a game that not many girls in Tanzania play but for Shelda Boniface, the sky could be the only limit.

>The road to Mamas party is here this weekend; it is a show that brings the rest of the East African nominees together as they kick start their continental campaign for awards.

>I hear the rains have enraptured our city; I am guessing plenty of cuddling is ensuing. What with temperatures cooling and body warmth preferred. You see I’m out visiting my soul sister Shukria in Kenya; she’s a journalist like me.

The 18th annual Zanzibar International Film Festival got off to a star-studded start with an evening of magical and memorable entertainment.  The evening played host to two South African icons, the legendary singer Dorothy Masuka (pictured) and the beloved star of Sarafina, Leleti Khumalo. Masuka had the crowd enraptured with her acapella performance that included a tribute to the late Nelson Mandela on the occasion of his birthday, Mandela Day. The day’s festivities started earlier with the...

The daughter of Nelson Mandela, Makaziwe Mandela, has paid tribute to BBC presenter Komla Dumor who died suddenly on Saturday at the age of 41.

IPPmedia
'No more elephants in decade'
IPPmedia
Tanzania is bound to lose all her elephants in 10 years given Africa's rate of poaching that sees 15 of them being killed every minute by the people in search for their precious tusks, the Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism Lazaro Nyalandu has ...
Ivory stock for high-tech monitoringDaily News
Journalists and wildlife activists threatened over use of false statisticseTurboNews
Elephant Orphanage to Open in TanzaniaYahoo Travel

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It is past midnight. We are at the Royal Palm Hotel in Dar es Salaam (today Dar es Salaam Serena Hotel). We have been waiting for the first copy of The Citizen maiden edition, fresh from the state-of-the-art printing press along Mandela Road.

East African Business Week
EAC Launches Industrialisation Decade - a Peep Into the Future
AllAfrica.com
East Africa opened a new chapter in its integration process with pomp and celebration in the picturesque Tanzanian city of Arusha, with the launch of the East African Industrialisation Decade. At the stroke of mid-day on Sunday, December 7, 2014, all the five ...
USAID Chips in U.S.$900000 to EAC BudgetEast African Business Week

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