OUR KIND OF PLANET: Of a ‘Mzungu’, 1.3m tuskers and my silly question!

>At the time of the first ever global conference on the human environment at Stockholm, Sweden, in 1972 local Swedish women are said to have made a vivid point about failed development thinking by walking the streets topless.

>The Constituent Assembly (CA) chairman, Mr Samuel Sitta, has pleaded with Tanzanians to give the assembly time to finish its work because abandoning it would subject the country to immeasurable loss. According to Mr Sitta money spent by the defunct Constitution Review Commission (CRC) and the CA would mean nothing to the country if CA activities are shelved now as proposed by many people.

Sub-Neptune sized planet validated with the habitable-zone planet finder  Phys.org

Habitable-Zone Planet Finder Validates Sub-Neptune Sized Planet  SciTechDaily

So we read in Daily Nation that the American TV CBN network that carries conservative 80-year-old preacher Pat Robertson’s daily programme apologised on Monday for his false claim that visitors to Kenya could contract Aids from towels.

>Mabingwa  watetezi wa Kombe la Mapinduzi, Azam FC  leo watashuka Uwanja wa Amaan, kumenyana  na  Tusker Fc ya Kenya, katika mchezo wa Kundi C.

The Citizen reported that some 262 kilogrammes worth $413,000 (Sh826 million) had been seized at Zurich Airport in Switzerland en route to China from Julius Nyerere International Airport (JNIA) on 6 July.

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Poachers gun down two tuskers at Udzungwa, pluck out tusks
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The grisly incident took place on Saturday despite the government's decision to resume the anti-poaching operation in June this year after being suspended in November 2013. Speaking to journalists here yesterday, Morogoro Regional Police Commander, ...

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Tanzania Police Seize 58 Tuskers, Arrest 3 in Connection
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Police in Tanzania's southern region of Mtwara said on Saturday that they have seized 58 pieces of ivory valued at 440,000 U.S. dollars and arrested three people in connection with the haul. The seizure of the ivory comes hardly three days after President ...
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State employs 500 rangers to fight poachingDaily News

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