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

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Grim history repeats itself as Burundians back in Tanzania
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At the close of a two-day seminar on how to fight dynamite fishing, which was held in Tanga Region last October, it was apparent that the participants, including scientists, fisheries officers, police, magistrates, journalists and fishers showed were unhappy that dynamite fishing was still active along Tanzania’s 800-kilometre long coastal line.

Bento Venâncio, from Jornal Domingo and Brito Simango, from Televisão de Moçambique, posing with Victor Mlunde while holding their Portuguese Language General News Awards.

By Victor Mlunde

Last Saturday, the world witnessed a historic annual CNN-Multichoice Journalist Award ceremony on the continent, hosted for the first time in our commercial capital, Dar Es Salaam.

The choice of Tanzania is not only an unprecedented honor to the great peaceful nation on the continent, but a rare...

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

>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.

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.

>Institutions under the ministry of Home Affairs are notorious for their failure to settle their water bills, which have accumulated to the tune of Sh600 million, according to the Moshi Urban Water Supply Authority (Muwsa)

The semi-arid country has diminishing groundwater and a lack of safe water access. New public-private partnerships are springing up, but a lack of trust and public awareness mean pace is slow

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