The agony of disease-stricken patient in Uswaz

Finding a husband and wife reunited after surviving the virus

Celestin is only 24 but recurrent war and political thuggery has driven him four times over the hills from Burundi to seek safety with thousands of others in Congo's equally unsettled east.

Christmas and Easter have been stricken from next year’s school calendar in Montgomery County. So have Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashanah.
Montgomery’s Board of Education voted 7 to 1 Tuesday to eliminate references to all religious holidays on the published calendar for 2015-2016, a decision that followed a request from Muslim community leaders to give equal billing to the Muslim holy day of Eid al-Adha.
In practical terms, Montgomery schools will still be closed for the Christian and Jewish...

Ladies and gentlemen, in Uswaz, every soul loves music. Anything from Asha Mashauzi’s Taarab that on a daily basis wafts from my neighbour’s shack, to glass-shattering hip hop that booms from a bachelor’s pad opposite my house qualifies to be music.

In these god-forsaken ghettos called Uswaz, religion happens to be grossly misunderstood. We combine pious characters with superstition. The line dividing the divine and evil is thin as a cobweb. Uswahilinites love to keep a piece of Shaytan (devil) and God at the same time although the holy books say that light and darkness do not mix.

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Why school children in poverty stricken areas find difficult to learn
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Tanzania is among the countries that are struggling to eliminate poverty. However, these efforts go very slowly in the last two decades. In a recent publication of the International Monetary Fund IMF argues that Tanzania's economy has been undergoing a ...

It is something akin to Stephen King’s Horror novels! There is a “new” fever doctors are calling “dengue” doing its rounds in this sprawling Uswaz.

This irritating brand of rich-poor men who float from one bar to another, armed with an eagle eye, a very thirsty throat and a ready tongue, ogling anyone from whom they can easily sponge a drink without having to open their wallets makes me go mad.

The good Lord in his abode has decided to let open not only all the heavenly faucets, but also the showers, Jacuzzis, dams, drums, tanks and anything that stores water in heaven. For that reason I am requesting any reader with any religious inclination to pray for Uswaz lest we all drown.