We cannot ignore the suffering of those refugees

“Sympathy’s easy. You have sympathy for starving children swatting at flies on the late-night commercials. Sympathy is easy because it comes from a position of power. Empathy is getting down on your knees and looking someone else in the eye and realising you could be them, and that all that separates you is luck.”- Dennis Lehane.

TheCitizen

Habari Zinazoendana

11 years ago

TheCitizen

08 May

Appeal to ignore Ukawa

The ruling party in the region has urged its members not to let leaders of the Coalition of Defenders of the People’s Constitution (Ukawa) to sway them in their position with regards to the process of writing the new Constitution.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

20 Jul

Banks should not ignore customers

One cannot define a noun by its adjective. Only the dictionary approach explains fairness as “the quality of being fair.”

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

05 Nov

‘Ignore Katiba critics’

>The President of Zanzibar, Dr Ali Mohamed Shein, has said the proposed new constitution would provide a solution to various Union problems contrary to some people’s claim that it would add more challenges.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

19 Jun

False Mkapanomics steps: we’re suffering

Tanzania still depends upon crippling handouts by aliens for around a third of the Govt. Budget year in, year out! This happens even after more than half-a-century of political independence under successive home-grown leadership derived from the same old, tired political stable man (CCM) and boy (Tanu).

 

11 years ago

BBC

VIDEO: Why is business suffering in Kano?

A violent insurgency in northern Nigeria has taken its toll on the regional economy. But some challenges faced by local businesses precede the troubles.

 

10 years ago

BBC

VIDEO: Ebola orphans 'really suffering'

Dauda, from Sierra Leone, survived the Ebola virus, but his father died and now he says he has nobody to depend on.

 

11 years ago

IPPmedia

06 Apr

Now students ignore private schools

Now students ignore private schools
IPPmedia
A new trend shows most students opt for public schools, owners of non-government schools and colleges noted in a meeting with government authorities in Dar es Salaam recently. They said the trend has negative impact on private schools given that the ...

 

9 years ago

TheCitizen

05 Oct

We can only ignore plight of teachers at our peril

As Tanzanian teachers join their professional colleagues elsewhere to mark the World Teachers’ Day, held on October 5 annually since 1994, it is appropriate to look at the situation of our teachers, without whom we cannot talk of any meaningful future of our young.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

04 Mar

Chaos as CA members ignore chair

The interim chairman of the Constituent Assembly, Mr Pandu Ameir Kificho, yesterday had a hard time maintaining order as members defied his orders and spoke without permission.

 

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