Sanitation: Towns come first, then bushes follow

Last Saturday there was the launch of the Beauty Salon and the beast exhibition showcasing installation and graphic art in the beauty salons and barbershops of Msasani area, near “kwa Edo” Chips Dar es Salaam.

Poor sanitation risks disease outbreak at Magomeni court
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Prison staff, defendants as well as complainants at Magomeni primary court in Dar es Salaam, are likely to suffer from epidemic diseases outbreak due to lack of lavatory services at the surroundings for more than four months now. The outbreak is feared to ...

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Oxfam delivers safe water, sanitation facilities to Nyarugusu refugee camp
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The development comes in the wake of yesterday's announcement by the Health and Social Welfare Ministry that there are over 500 confirmed new cases of cholera in camps hosting Burundi refugees in Kigoma Region. Oxfam cites that overcrowding, lack of ...
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As cholera confirmed among Burnundian refugees in Tanzania, Oxfam delivers...

>The National Housing Corporation (NHC) plans to construct two satellite towns on the outskirts of Arusha, the Regional Consultative Committee (RCC) meeting was told here on Wednesday. The NHC regional manager for Arusha, Mr James Kisarika, named the sites as Usa River Satellite City to be put up on the southern fringes of the city and Safari Satellite City to be built at Mateves.

Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, Germany

Garmisch-Partenkirchen is an enchanting town in the heights of the Zugspitze mountain, the tallest in Germany at a height of nearly 3,000 meters. The town was originally two separate settlements, one Roman and the other Teutonic. In anticipation of the 1936 Winter Olympics, the two towns were forced to combine.

Village in the Himalayas, Tibet

This one of many towns built to support monasteries hidden in the Himalaya mountains that are only...

Somalia's Islamist al-Shabab militants are recruiting heavily in north-eastern Kenya, according to evidence gathered by the BBC.

In our globalized world, there is now little difference between what is local and what is global. What happens in our cities have global repercussions. What happens in our districts, can resonate at a global level. And correspondingly, what happens at a global scale directly affects the lives of our citizens.

You can take a villager out of a village, but cannot take the village out of him. This is a piece of information that is largely a joke.

The United Nations mission in South Sudan reported widespread looting after a patrol in the strategic market town of Bor, which has changed hands several times in the conflict, officials said Friday.