As I sit down to write this post, I have just arrived at the Tanzanian / Malawi border. A journey of 1,600 Kilometers and Malawi just like other African countries is not exempt from the effects of...
I have had a chance to drive across Tanzania - the largest country in East Africa - on the Trans African Caravan of Hope. The journey from Dar es Salaam to the border crossing Tanzania-Malawi is...
Sophie Lirumbe, 17, is seven or eight months pregnant and is about to be married – she wishes that she could have attended school but her father would not allow it.
An obsession with instant profits and short-term thinking lies behind the current financial crisis, which is deepening by the day. The obvious solution would seem to lie in strategic investments that...
In 2006, Sun Biofuels arrived in Kisarawe District and took land the size of 11,000 football pitches to establish a jatropha plantation - a crop that is grown for biofuels (above). 13-year-old Mariam...
The 10th Tanzania Gender Festival (GF) is to take place in Dar es Salaam from Tuesday 13th to Friday 16th September 2011 under the broad theme Democracy and Development, focusing on land, labour and livelihood.
This report analyses data from the Baseline Study conducted for the Transforming Education for Girls in Nigeria and Tanzania (TEGINT) project in Nigeria and Tanzania between 2007 and 2009. TEGINT is...
In Gambella village, the first person I meet is Koye Sersera. Koye is 71 years old and lives with her husband and five grandchildren. The family share a tiny one-roomed hut, made from...
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