AFRICAN civil societies actors from Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania have pleaded with President Samia Suluhu Hassan to release all political prisoners, human right activists, journalists incarcerated by the previous...
People and Events
MEDIA independence in Tanzania is still a serious concern despite President Samia Suluhu Hassan’s demonstration of willingness to closely work with the media without government interference. Journalists, media owners and...
People and Events
Politics
President Samia spreads smiles and hope to Tanzanian workers for the first time in six years
TANZANIA’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan has given her country’s workers a reason to smile with hope and promises to improve their welfare, something they have never heard from the...
A cross section of Tanzania’s human rights defenders and gender activists have acclaimed Kenya for setting the precedent by having the first female Chief Justice. Judge Martha Koome (61) was...
PHILIP OCHIENG, one of the East Africa’s celebrated veteran journalists, a renowned editor and columnist, is dead. Aged 82, the Kenyan national who worked across the region – including...
MANY people may know that TANZANIA is a proper name of a country in East Africa. But few know who coined the name. While then Tanganyika President Mwalimu Julius...
People and Events
World
Tanzania apprehends 7 Pakistanis in possession of one ton of heroin in fishing dhow
IN a heavily joint operation in the Indian Ocean today on the Tanzanian nautical zone, the Drug Control and Enforcement Authority and the army have apprehended seven people believed...
SAMIA Suluhu Hassan, Tanzania’s new president who came to power one month ago following the death of John Magufuli, is slowly overturning some policies that had become a public...
TANZANIA’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan has addressed the parliament for the first time since she assumed power, delivering a speech that categorically draws the line between herself and her...
TANZANIA’s Samia Suluhu Hassan has advised parliamentarians to constructively and critically criticize her ministers. “I urge you to criticize us where necessary. Again very strongly, when my ministers bring...