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    A visit to Mozambique: Land of Samora Machel
    IF there is a country that Tanzania had committed all resources, including spilling of blood, is neighbouring Mozambique in its war of liberation. Mozambique is free today; actually the country marked its 35th anniversary of her liberation this year. But to what extent do Mozambicans and
    Author: By Makwaia wa Kuhenga, Uploaded on: 2nd September 2010 @ 12:00, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 54
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    Of religious ‘believes’ and many ‘wifes’
    It is our hope that university dons throughout the country are managing to beat the deadlines for marking students’ scripts. As we pointed out last week, sometimes you get a good laugh out marking. Like this student who wrote something on access to land for women in Tanzania and referred to
    Author: By Lusuga Kironde, Uploaded on: 27th August 2010 @ 12:00, Total Comments: 4, Total people who read this story: 714
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    Blindness in children
    TRACHOMA is not a new problem in Dodoma Region. It has been wreaking havoc here since time immemorial; no wonder medical experts say Dodoma beggars who move from one urban center to another looking for alms may have exported the problem to other regions. Dodoma has exported both the beggars and
    Author: By Sosthenes Mwita, Uploaded on: 27th August 2010 @ 12:00, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 230
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    There are good East Africans, let’s celebrate them
    JUST last week, I was of the opinion that some East African entrepreneurs have run away with the East African Community, especially the bad guys, only to be confirmed as spot -on by three incidents. In the first instance, to imagine that a Kenyan entrepreneur tried to sell off his Albino friend and
    Author: By K'Oyoo Nick, Uploaded on: 27th August 2010 @ 12:00, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 193
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    Democracy in form but something else in substance
    DEMOCRACY, per commonsense, is CHILD a political system in which people, no matter of what station in life, rich or poor, educated or uneducated, all have equal voice in selecting who should run the affairs of the state. It presumes that when people have made their wishes known by votes, their
    Author: By Young Kimaro, Uploaded on: 27th August 2010 @ 12:00, Total Comments: 3, Total people who read this story: 173
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    When will Tanzanians in diaspora get their right to vote?
    WHILE the election fever is gripping almost everybody in Tanzania, equally well in the Land of the Brave here, serious politicking is very much around for the forthcoming Regional and Local authority elections in Namibia. We hardly read news in our local press here about Tanzania, possibly
    Author: By Kiangiosekazi wa Nyoka, Windhoek, Uploaded on: 27th August 2010 @ 12:00, Total Comments: 1, Total people who read this story: 174
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    An SOS to our courts system: Justice delayed is justice denied!
    THE sister paper of this newspaper, the Kiswahili language HabariLeo of Tuesday this week carried an eyebrow raising news story headed: ‘Inmates Strip in Court.’ It was more than interesting. If you missed it, here are excerpts. Begin text: “INMATES STRIP IN COURT - From John Nditi, Morogoro,
    Author: By Makwaia wa Kuhenga, Uploaded on: 26th August 2010 @ 12:00, Total Comments: 2, Total people who read this story: 300
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    Judge made fun of my lawyer
    Judge made fun of my lawyer I filed a suit at the High Court in Mwanza and lost the case. My lawyer told me that in the judgment the Judge has made fun of him, showing clearly the Judge’s biasedness. He has poked jokes at my lawyer and it is clear in the judgment. What can I do? GF,
    Author: FB Attorneys, Uploaded on: 25th August 2010 @ 12:00, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 262
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    Kudos to President Kikwete over Election Expenses Act
    When I first wrote to commend President Jakaya Kikwete for his declared resolve to act tough on vote auctioning, someone reacted by calling me names. But real journalists are like a kitchen fork; they have an inbuilt resilience against heat. Still, when the President went out of his way to sign
    Author: Alfred Ngotezi, Uploaded on: 24th August 2010 @ 21:00, Total Comments: 3, Total people who read this story: 383
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    The chief executive and a manager’s self-inflicted disappointments
    THE doors of the lift closed as I checked my watch to ascertain if I was on time for our appointment with Basaba, one of the managers in a prominent firm. As I stepped out of the lift, I noticed the new marble flooring, signalling that the premises had just been renovated. “What an impressive
    Author: By Joy Nyabongo, Uploaded on: 23rd August 2010 @ 23:34, Total Comments: 2, Total people who read this story: 406
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    Malaria: Still dicing with human life…
    ON August 24, 2009 – one year to the day tomorrow – we published in these columns a piece titled ‘the politics of malaria: dicing with human life.’ Today, we revisit that article which, very briefly, lamented the trial and error method by which the government in Dar was dealing with the treatment
    Author: By Karl Lyimo, Uploaded on: 22nd August 2010 @ 16:00, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 475
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    A walking albino for sale?
    It was simply a matter of time. What with all the mostly prevalent nasty belief in our part of the world that a guy could end up rich after selling his fellow human being. Apparently he had been told that there is big money to be had in selling people afflicted with a skin disease, we know as
    Author: By Adam Lusekelo, Uploaded on: 21st August 2010 @ 23:17, Total Comments: 3, Total people who read this story: 583
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    Do not feed House Sparrows
    PEOPLE, in an effort to attract birds to their gardens or restaurants, without caging them, are putting out seed. The only birds that seem to be attracted to this tactic are House Sparrows who can be quickly trained to come fluttering down in a roughly charming way for seed that is scattered or put
    Author: By Anne Outwater, Uploaded on: 21st August 2010 @ 16:00, Total Comments: 1, Total people who read this story: 379
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    Dim prospects for the preservation of our cultures
    A WOMAN, who has recently returned to Tanzania, having accompanied her son to India for medical treatment, complained on a television news report how she spent a few days in India starving because she could not speak English. I initially sympathized with her plight, but also realized that the
    Author: By Madaraka Nyerere, Uploaded on: 21st August 2010 @ 16:00, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 392
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    Key messages for policy makers about traffic jam in Dar es Salaam
    Traffic congestion is currently at the tip of the tongue of everyone who lives in a large African city like Dar es Salaam. The never ending and growing traffic jams are providing excuses even for those who are well known to be late reporters for any appointment. Non time keepers become saints when
    Author: By Lusuga Kironde, Uploaded on: 21st August 2010 @ 16:00, Total Comments: 2, Total people who read this story: 415
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    Let’s strive to broaden FATAKI campaign scope
    Last week I spent two very mind enriching days at the Kunduchi Beach Hotel in attendance to the first ever international conference on sustainable tourism in developing countries. The conference attracted over 20 tourism experts and academia from different countries of the world as well as policy
    Author: By Masembwe Tambwe, Uploaded on: 21st August 2010 @ 16:00, Total Comments: 1, Total people who read this story: 370
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    In Tarime, they keep ‘ships’ on farms
    For many universities in the country, it is currently, examination marking time, a very demanding period, given the large number of students and the labour-intensive activity of reading through hundreds of manuscripts. But as the saying goes, that for every dark cloud there is a silver lining,
    Author: By Lusuga Kironde, Uploaded on: 20th August 2010 @ 12:04, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 504
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    Safety: A basic right for children
    HELLO Readers. Today, I take a look at the key aspects parents must observe in order to maintain the health of their children. What I have in mind is safe childhood. Child mortality rates remain constantly worrisome in this country. But, first, let us look at what the African Charter on the Rights
    Author: By Sosthenes Mwita, Uploaded on: 20th August 2010 @ 12:00, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 386
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    The 30th year SADC Jubilee that was!
    THE thirtieth year of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) existence was celebrated here this week in the form of Jubilee and none of the leaders was prepared to sour the well arranged summit to be a source of discord among the celebrants. It was only Madagascar, after all a new member
    Author: By Kiangiosekazi wa Nyoka, Windhoek, Uploaded on: 20th August 2010 @ 12:00, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 389
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    Time for a serious postmortem within CCM
    THIS perspective may be helpful to analysts of the ruling party, that is, if this party still has serious ones who are issue and process oriented -- not those prone to idle talk, analysts with the capacity to work under pressure -- what with campaigns just kicking off in the run up to general
    Author: Makwaia wa Kuhenga, Uploaded on: 19th August 2010 @ 16:00, Total Comments: 1, Total people who read this story: 603
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    Is bride price a mandatory requirement?
    Is bride price a mandatory requirement? I contracted a Christian marriage with a certain woman. Strangely her father came and took her away against her will, claiming that I did not pay bride price for her. I do not disagree with this but it was due to the amount demanded. Is the father
    Author: FB Attorneys, Uploaded on: 18th August 2010 @ 12:00, Total Comments: 2, Total people who read this story: 635
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    Of ‘self esteem and a boss’ deadly utterances’
    I SMILED at the waiters as I entered the Spur. Being a Sunday afternoon, the place was crowded with families that had come to treat their children to some exciting games and food delicacies. But my visit was nowhere related to family fancies. To the contrary, I was here to meet my friend
    Author: By Joy Nyabongo, Uploaded on: 16th August 2010 @ 12:00, Total Comments: 9, Total people who read this story: 835
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    We are not beggars;let us have that money please
    GENERAL elections or any elections for that matter are about the enhancement of democracy. This is how it should be as all political parties; all aspirants for the various political offices at stake, all registered voters and all the people are entitled to an equitable, comprehensive and wider
    Author: By Gabby Mgaya, Uploaded on: 16th August 2010 @ 00:51, Total Comments: 2, Total people who read this story: 687
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    Calling on Marando: 'Put up, or shut up...’
    LAWYERS the world over – fictional (Erle Stanley Gardner’s ‘Perry Mason’) and those in the real world (Mabere Nyaucho Marando, for instance) – once in a while resort to the pithy challenge against their ‘adversaries’ in court to ‘Put Up, or Shut Up!’ This calls on their adversaries to either
    Author: By Karl Lyimo, Uploaded on: 15th August 2010 @ 12:00, Total Comments: 1, Total people who read this story: 834
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    Tanzania needs more opposition lawmakers
    Freeman Mbowe did not blink when he announced Chadema’s unexpected pick for this year’s presidential race. He sounded firm and quite determined. Said he; “Dr. Wilbroad Peter Slaa is our choice for the presidency…” Frankly, even Paul the Octopus would prove him wrong straight away. As most
    Author: By Alfred Ngotezi, Uploaded on: 14th August 2010 @ 14:34, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 269
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    ECONOMIC CONSIDERATIONS ON URBAN TRAFFIC CONGESTION
    A study carried out in 14 African cities (Abidjan, Accra, Addis Ababa, Bamako, Conakry, Dar es Salaam, Douala, Kampala, Kigali, Kinshasha, Lagos, Nairobi and Ouagadougou) and published in 2008, made a number of observations: Road congestion was a problem in all cities. Its causes are poor
    Author: LUSUGA KIRONDE, Uploaded on: 14th August 2010 @ 12:00, Total Comments: 1, Total people who read this story: 756
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    Tadpoles develop visibly in a water-y womb
    When I sent Professor Howell a tadpole photo journal he forwarded it to Alan Channing who wrote me saying, “ These are interesting records.” I was happy, since that is a lot of encouragement from the people who wrote the book on East African Amphibians! So after my pilot run which I reported a
    Author: Anne Outwater, Uploaded on: 14th August 2010 @ 12:00, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 495
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    Giving credits to women ‘entrepreuers’ does not mean giving them loans
    BUZZ words in the development world include access to credit and acquiring business skills especially for women and low income households. Recently, a financial institution in the country did something in those directions as depicted by an article entitled: “Exim Bank Offers Business Training to
    Author: By Lusuga Kironde, Uploaded on: 13th August 2010 @ 12:00, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 675
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    NAIROBI - A CITY OF STARK CONTRASTS
    NAIROBI is a city of stark contrasts. There is the Nairobi of the poor and Nairobi of the Rich. The difference is big. It is a Gulf actually. Today, the poor Nairobi leads a life that the rich Nairobi has no idea about and vice versa. Think about it the rich Nairobi lives in the rich half of
    Author: By K"Oyoo Nick, Uploaded on: 13th August 2010 @ 12:00, Total Comments: 1, Total people who read this story: 709
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    Death traps in your house!
    HELLO Readers. Today I tackle a subject that touches all children and their parents. I look at the most common injuries that afflict young children especially in their homes. Children's injuries range dangerous falls from tree canopies to electric shocks and attacks from animals. Most injuries
    Author: By SOSTHENES PAULO MWITA, Uploaded on: 13th August 2010 @ 12:00, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 874
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    Tucta's stance on presidential candidates:WRONG IN PRINCIPLE!
    MY eye brows were raised, and I believe the eye brows of most informed and fair minded people, upon the announcement that the union of trade unions in this country known as the Trade Union Congress of Tanzania (TUCTA) is poised to name the presidential candidate it favours at its forthcoming
    Author: By Makwaia wa KUHENGA, Uploaded on: 12th August 2010 @ 12:00, Total Comments: 10, Total people who read this story: 831
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    Is it legal to sell pangas, knives on streets
    Selling of pangas, knives on streets I have on many occasions seen people having in possession and sometimes selling spears, bows and arrows, knives and pangas along the streets of Dar es Salaam. These sellers even approach you in your car with these items and offer to sell. Are these
    Author: FB Attorneys, Uploaded on: 10th August 2010 @ 12:24, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 747
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    Parental love and ‘mistaken preferences’
    JUDY manoeuvred her car through the streets, striving to look for parking. For an early Saturday morning, such overcrowding was usual, as many discerning shoppers chose to wake up early, so as to beat the unforgiving weekend traffic. Fortunately, she did not have to search for long before a
    Author: Joy Nyabongo, Uploaded on: 9th August 2010 @ 12:13, Total Comments: 5, Total people who read this story: 921
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    Presidential aspirants deserve all respect
    FREE and fair democratic elections are also about free and fair media coverage. The media is expected to exercise the profession of the Fourth Estate’s cardinal rule of objectivity during election time. It is potentially dangerous for a section of the media to start taking sides – openly that is –
    Author: By Gabby Mgaya, Uploaded on: 8th August 2010 @ 12:11, Total Comments: 1, Total people who read this story: 841
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    CCM polling: Heaven-sent,Kikwete-delivered chance
    THE Corruption Bureau (PCCB) raised a lot of dust that swirled in the air for days. That dust hadn’t quite settled days after it was kicked up - thanks to a clear directive in that regard by President Kikwete. But, I jump the starter’s gun here, and must begin at the beginning ... On July 19
    Author: By Karl Lyimo, Uploaded on: 8th August 2010 @ 12:00, Total Comments: 1, Total people who read this story: 832
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    Better a thousand times careful than once dead
    I have always pondered and mercilessly scratched my near balding head on why and how shooting incidences occur in some countries. There are countless times where we have read in the newspapers and watched over our television sets and the internet of such things happening and in spite of doing small
    Author: MASEMBE TAMBWE, Uploaded on: 7th August 2010 @ 13:00, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 578
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    I never expected tadpoles would be so…
    Tadpoles. Viluilui vya vyura. It never entered my mind once, in all my years to consider that a tadpole would have the capability to look at me, or that one could be individualistic from another. I never expected they would be alert and aware beings. But that is what I think I am seeing. I
    Author: ANNE OUTWATER, Uploaded on: 7th August 2010 @ 12:00, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 710
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    Addressing urban traffic congestion
    Last week we presented views that saw the construction of flyovers and underpasses as an unlikely solution to Dar es Salaam’s worsening traffic jams. What is on everybody’s mind is what should the government do? People are thinking of immediate solutions; traffic congestion should have gone
    Author: Lusuga Kironde, Uploaded on: 7th August 2010 @ 12:00, Total Comments: 2, Total people who read this story: 650
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    Why are authorities holding smoking gun at Tazara?
    Last week my colleagues and I had a ride of a life time on the Tazara railway.   To me, especially, it was more so because it was my debut on the famed African liberation railway.     I have brought back fond memories of the journey. The first is about the unwritten history of the railway which
    Author: By Alfred Ngotezi, Uploaded on: 7th August 2010 @ 12:00, Total Comments: 2, Total people who read this story: 640
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    When criticism keeps coming, how do you deal with it?
    They say criticism is good, infinitely so. Yet so many people hit the roof when confronted with criticism. Some blow a fuse, literally so. A guy who is forever eloquent suddenly is at loss for words. Did the cat bite his tongue? Your words hit a nerve, he blew a fuse albeit temporarily to the
    Author: TONY NALEO, Uploaded on: 7th August 2010 @ 12:00, Total Comments: 4, Total people who read this story: 629
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    Tribute to a great African historian, Basil Davidson
    BASIL Davidson is no stranger to African politics, particularly for those who are of my age and other younger generation who devote their times to study the decolonisation process of the African continent, must have come across of this name. Davidson who died on 9th July of this year in London
    Author: By Kiangiosekazi wa Nyoka, Windhoek, Uploaded on: 6th August 2010 @ 16:00, Total Comments: 1, Total people who read this story: 837
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    Campaigns revving up to high gear and so is PCCB
    PERHAPS it wasn’t necessary to shorten the budget session to allow more time for election campaigning. The Bunge members absented themselves in droves, anyway. Budget for sector Ministries were read to a near empty chamber, words echoing through the chamber for want of ears. In one unfortunate shot
    Author: By Young Kimaro, Uploaded on: 6th August 2010 @ 12:00, Total Comments: 1, Total people who read this story: 679
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    Positive Zanzibar referendum: Time for political work!
    CYNICS and pessimists alike did not believe what the two men in Zanzibar, Messrs Amani Abeid Karume, the Zanzibari President and Seif Shariff Hamad, leader of the Zanzibari major opposition, had up their sleeves when they buried what appeared to be untenable: an amicable political accord to end a
    Author: By MAKWAIA WA KUHENGA, Uploaded on: 5th August 2010 @ 12:00, Total Comments: 1, Total people who read this story: 754
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    Religious versus customary marriages, which is superior?
    Religious versus customary marriages, which is superior? I was married under customary law in 1989 and blessed with three children. In 2004, my husband wanted to marry a second wife while still married to me, to which I had no objection. He celebrated a Christian marriage with this new
    Author: FB Attorneys, Uploaded on: 4th August 2010 @ 12:17, Total Comments: 1, Total people who read this story: 883
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    Of ‘the city tycoon, the conference centre and a secretary’s hidden lunches’
    DRIED my feet on the aging doormat that marked the entrance to Stella’s house. It had been raining heavily despite the steaming hot temperatures that had victimised city dwellers during the past few days. Being early March, such erratic downpours were not uncommon. Sadly, the gloomy weather
    Author: By Joy Nyabongo, Uploaded on: 3rd August 2010 @ 00:00, Total Comments: 3, Total people who read this story: 1120
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    Good job by the media, so far
    THE media in Tanzania has in recent weeks been very busy as the countdown to the general elections begun in earnest with all political parties making initial preparations for the grand occasion. There has been no shortage of election-related news as the ruling CCM and other parties kicked off
    Author: By GABBY MGAYA, Uploaded on: 1st August 2010 @ 12:00, Total Comments: 1, Total people who read this story: 810
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    SIM registration: ignoble execution of a noble idea
    LIKE a kind deed that deserves another, one noble act deserves another… Or does it? I’ll explain, beginning from the beginning… Starting from June 2009 at the behest of the Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA), mobile telephony service providers registered particulars of the
    Author: KARL LYIMO, Uploaded on: 1st August 2010 @ 12:00, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 754
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    The smear age is here!
    The kick-off is on from 1st October. The campaigns start, although I will boldly say that in some of our diaries, this end of campaigns is just the beginning of the beginning. We now know who is going to be the prez and other assorted rulers. The job of the people will be to endorse what has been
    Author: Adam Lusekelo, Uploaded on: 31st July 2010 @ 22:00, Total Comments: 3, Total people who read this story: 872
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    Wildlife protection should not compromise crucial human needs
    As with last week, I continue to respond to questions raised by a visiting American university student. The latest: Why does an official of the Tanzania Tourist Board get a driver and a car? He tells me any person of equivalent rank in the United States drives himself in his own car. “It was
    Author: Madaraka Nyerere, Uploaded on: 31st July 2010 @ 14:00, Total Comments: 10, Total people who read this story: 932
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    Black-throated Wattle–eye nesting
    In a garden in Mikocheni-B, a nest was built on a branch of a soursop tree right beside a well-used path, at eye level. Such a special event made so accessible I resolved to visit that tree and take a photo every day. I wish I could show you the series but my editor only allows me one photo per
    Author: Anne Outwater, Uploaded on: 31st July 2010 @ 14:00, Total Comments: 0, Total people who read this story: 645
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