A few days ago, the world marked the International Women's Day. On this particular day, the world devotes itself to honor women’s accomplishments, promoting our status in society and continuing the fight for equal rights. This year’s theme is ‘connecting girls inspiring development’.
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Now that rebels have laid down arms after over two decades of conflicts in some countries in the Great Lakes Region, there is bright future in that it is most endowed with natural resources.
WHEN asked what she does for her living Margaret Lema immediately replies, “I’m a business woman, mother and housewife.” Then there are a few minutes of silence, which is broken with, “I do business, I do church work and I’m also a housewife.”
VILLAGERS living near the North Mara Gold Mine expect life to change for the better following the signing of a 10 million dollars (about 16bn/-) deal taped Villages Benefit Implementation Agreement (VBIA).
FOOD vendors in Ilemela district in Mwanza region are facing stiff competitions in doing business and are looking for new ways to stay at the top of the game.
EXPERTS are calling for concerted efforts to educate grassroots communities on constitutional matters as a prerequisite towards writing a new constitution in Tanzania.
On March 8th last year we marked 100 years of the International Women’s Day (IWD) in commemoration of the first time in modern times that the civil rights of women were recognized in a country’s legal framework.
Violence against women is pervasive scourge which has been with us for ages. It knows no color, creed, age, status or nation. It’s in every country. What brought us here is the fact that we should not allow this cruel and worthless scourge to continue.
I believe my earliest consciousness towards ‘Women affairs’ was way back in 1975 when the United Nations designated that year as the International Women's Year.
Among the shocking scenes of the genocide museum in Rwanda are the skeletons of breast feeding women and their babies? There are also skeletons of those who were killed in church. It was a shocking scene to the extent that people were asking “Where was God when all this happened?