Panic inside KQ plane as it lands badly in Dar

Panic as plane skids on runway in Pemba
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AN airplane carrying 17 people slipped off a runway and skidded into a bush at Pemba Airport on Friday evening causing panic. No injuries were reported, officials said. Zanzibar Minister for Constitutional and Legal affairs, Mr Abubakari Khamis Bakari and ...

The N604 AR Piper aircraft had to make an emergency landing in Mityana – a town some 67 kilometres west of the Ugandan capital of Kampala.

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Commissioner for Lands in the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Human Settlements ...
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The government is today expected to begin demolishing all illegally constructed structures in Dar es Salaam's of Bunju, Mbezi, Mwenge and Tegeta suburbs. The move is also aimed at maintaining the present government's master plan. Addressing a press ...

Rescue teams resumed their recovery operation in the mountains on Thursday
The co-pilot of the Germanwings plane that crashed into the French Alps on Tuesday appeared to want to "destroy the plane", French officials said. Marseille prosecutor Brice Robin, citing information from the "black box" voice recorder, said the co-pilot was alone in the cockpit. He intentionally started a descent while the pilot was locked out. Mr Robin said there was "absolute silence in the cockpit" as the pilot...

>Some 55 people got a scare yesterday when the Kenya Airways plane they were travelling in from Nairobi to Dar es Salaam skidded off the runway during landing at around noon. There were 49 passengers and six crew on board at the time.

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Journalists badly need safety training - activist
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Lack of knowledge on security management and risk assessment for journalists in Tanzania has been cited as a major factor contributing to the current state of reporters' insecurity. “Like other people, journalists have personal interest in the rights that allow ...

Some learning centres are badly located
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THE learning environment should be given greater consideration before establishing open schools or learning centres that are popularly known as Qualifying Test (QT) Centres. Quality secondary school education cannot be provided in a poor environment.

Relevant authorities here have been urged to step in and assist families to contain the worrying level of malnutrition among children in Arusha City.

Of the three East African states named this week in the top 10 countries with the highest HIV burden, Tanzania lags behind when it comes to dedicating financial resources to contain the virus. And this at a time when a lot more investment is required to control the public health threat in the wider Africa.