SPECIAL REPORT: How mutiny gave rise to the TPDF

>After a few days, the Royal British Army offered me a number of jobs at the defence headquarters, which I declined because they involved sitting in the office and doing administrative work which had included, among others, keeping records of military items in their respective stores.

TheCitizen

Habari Zinazoendana

11 years ago

TheCitizen

11 Sep

How the 1964 Tanzania Rifles mutiny gave birth to TPDF

Little is known today or even narrated in the local media, about the January 1, 1961 mutiny by African members of what was then known as the Tanganyika Rifles, which occurred three years after Tanganyika’s independence from Britain on December 9, 1961.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

02 Oct

TPDF soldier deaths rise to seven

Three more Tanzania People’s Defense Forces (TPDF) soldiers have died raising the death toll to seven from the yesterdays’ road accident in Kigoma, The Citizen has confirmed.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

21 Jan

Uhuru gave cash to arm Mungiki, alleges Bensouda in latest report

A redacted brief by ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda has accused Kenyan senior politicians and officials in President Mwai Kibaki’s government of using security agents and the Mungiki to cause violence during the 2007/2008 post-election violence.

 

11 years ago

Poaching Campaign Ineffective

10 Feb

SPECIAL REPORT: Why anti

SPECIAL REPORT: Why anti-poaching campaign ineffective
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In recent years, Tanzania has witnessed a steep rise in poaching and other forms of crime targeting elephants and other wild animal species. The rate of killings is significantly greater than the elephants' capacity to reproduce. This has led many wildlife ...

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

23 Sep

SPECIAL REPORT: The making of an ecological catastrophe

>For years, the success story of the Nile perch has been told in volumes and verses to the extent that this version of reality overshadows the impact of the fish on Lake Victoria.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

09 Jan

SPECIAL REPORT: Why research on viral diseases

>Outbreaks of  viral diseases which are known to spread from animals to humans (known as Zoonotic diseases) can be so economically devastating and life threatening—the reason why future health research priorities should be reviewed to combat Zoonotic infections in Tanzania and Africa in general.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

22 Dec

SPECIAL REPORT: Is empowerment working for women?

>Women in Zanzibar are leading in the growing number of those filing for divorce (talak), it has emerged.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

19 May

EDUCATION SPECIAL REPORT: Universities everywhere, but are they worth it?

>In an attempt to raise primary school enrolment, the government dropped fees in 2001—and the response was well worth it. By 2009, 95 per cent of children were in school all the way from pre-primary to secondary level.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

24 May

SPECIAL REPORT: Many fleeing Burundi have no wish to return home

If you ask a Burundian refugee who has recently arrived in Tanzania when they plan to return home, there’s a good chance that the answer will be, “I don’t.” Now a cholera outbreak on the border has made the journey all the more dangerous.

 

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