Voter apathy portends grim future

The foundation of democracy is the right to vote. For this to work, the majority of voting-age people are supposed to exercise that right. When people lose faith in the voting process, it is a dangerous trend, a symptom of great social malaise in any nation.

TheCitizen

Habari Zinazoendana

10 years ago

TheCitizen

20 Dec

VOTER TURNOUT APATHY: Multiparty elections from 1995: Why voter apathy galore?

>In My Book of Things, the title to the leading front-page report of The Citizen on December 15 this year takes the cake! ‘Local elections a farce,’ simply read the headline; but it told us so much in so few words what’s happening to ‘Tanzanian democracy’ in general  – and elections specifically!

 

11 years ago

BBC

VIDEO: Grim journey through 'new Rwanda'

The United Nations says the on-going conflict in South Sudan has a disturbing echo of events in Rwanda 20 years ago.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

15 Jun

Africa’s future has big bearing on mankind’s future

A good future for mankind depends in no small part on the future of Africa, and the future of Africa depends in no small part on whether this continent will succeed to offer jobs and perspectives to its fast-growing youth population, and the future of jobs in this region will highly depend on a healthy, thriving and inclusive private sector.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

06 Dec

Why WB’s water failure in Tanzania ‘grim news’

During the dry season, students walk on the brownish-red sand, passing a water pump adjacent to school buildings.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

07 Jan

DUPONT: Grim new reality for once popular TV genre in the US

>Falling ratings, canceled shows and lurid scandals: 2014 was a trying year for reality television in the United States, as American audiences wearied of producers chasing success by recycling the same old formats.

 

10 years ago

News24

18 Jun

Grim history repeats itself as Burundians back in Tanzania

News24
Grim history repeats itself as Burundians back in Tanzania
News24
Burundians who fled their country, wait to be registered as refugees at Nyarugusu camp, in north west of Tanzania. (Stephanie Aglietti, AFP). Multimedia · User Galleries · News in Pictures Send us your pictures · Send us your stories ...

 

10 years ago

New Zealand Herald

06 Jul

Grim camps albinos' best shot at avoiding witch doctors' clutches

National Post
Grim camps albinos' best shot at avoiding witch doctors' clutches
New Zealand Herald
A 6 year-old from Tanzania with albinism, is treated at Global Medical Relief Fund and Shriners Hospital for Children in Philadelphia. Photo / AP. It was from neighbours that Scola Joseph first heard of two strange men in the village asking after her ...
Albino children locked away to keep them safe from witch doctors who claim ...National Post

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5 years ago

Al Jazeera English

02 Apr

Grim one-day virus death toll for US, Spain, UK: Live updates

Grim one-day virus death toll for US, Spain, UK: Live updates  Al Jazeera EnglishEllis Marsalis, New Orleans Jazz Patriarch, Dead at 85  PitchforkHonoring Ellis Marsalis  Jazz at Lincoln CenterEllis Marsalis, New Orleans music legend, passes away at the age of 85  WGNO New OrleansEllis Marsalis Dead: New Orleans Jazz Patriarch Was 85  Hollywood ReporterView Full coverage on Google News

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

13 Feb

Bunge divided over grim report on #poaching, MP claims British tabloid 'knows nothing'

 Parliament is a House divided over a report in a British newspaper that accuses President Jakaya Kikwete’s government of poaching.

 

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