Tanzania's former top judge, Mohammed Chande Othman, is heading up a nine-person team to dig into what went down during the October general election mess. The commission has six main areas to cover, starting with figuring out what kicked off the violence and what people were thinking when they got involved.
They're looking at how bad things got with deaths, injuries, property damage, and economic fallout. The investigation will also check out how the government and its agencies handled everything. Othman says they'll be pulling info from documents, doing interviews both in-person and online, sending out questionnaires, and making field visits to talk with different groups.
The commission also plans to recommend ways to boost...
A health specialist from the East Central and Southern Africa Health Community warns that antimicrobial resistance has become a massive systems-level threat affecting everything from medical care to food security across the region. Microorganisms are evolving to resist medicines, and infections that used to be treatable are becoming impossible to cure. This crisis is slowing progress on 12 of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, hitting health, poverty reduction, and economic growth especially hard.
Regional cooperation offers the best shot at fighting back through shared surveillance data, harmonized standards, and pooled resources. Countries need to embed infection prevention as standard practice, use antibiotic frameworks that...
Oryx Gas Tanzania wants to hit that government target of getting 80 percent of people switched over to clean cooking fuel by 2034, and they're upgrading their distribution setup to make it happen. Sales boss Shaban Fundi talked about their GESI YENTE promo that pulled over a million participants sending in cards from gas cylinders, and he told customers to watch out for shady dealers swapping their tanks.
The campaign got extended through mid-December because demand went wild, and winners walked away with motorcycles, bicycles, stoves, and school bags. One person from Mbezi Beach said the motorcycle will help with side hustles, while another winner was hyped about the stove saving time in the kitchen. The company keeps pushing the...
Algeria hosted a continental summit where African leaders pushed hard for colonial crimes to get officially labeled as crimes against humanity. President Abdelmadjid Tebboune backed the move to criminalize colonialism alongside slavery and apartheid, while delegates hammered out plans for reparations and getting stolen cultural artifacts back. The conference lined up with an African Union decision from earlier in the year about justice for people of African descent.
The big outcome was the Algiers Declaration that lays out strategies for dealing with colonial damage. Participants talked about fixing economic problems left behind by colonial powers and addressing psychological trauma still affecting societies across the continent. The...
Exim Bank Tanzania kicked off a two-month campaign pushing cashless payments with their Mastercard through point-of-sale terminals and online checkout. The promo runs until late January and drops weekly prizes of 100,000 shillings for five people, while monthly winners get 200,000 each. Grand prizes hit 5 million, 10 million, and 15 million shillings for the lucky few.
Head of Personal Banking Andrew Lyimo said the bank wants to make digital transactions feel natural while hooking customers up with rewards. Marketing boss Stanley Kafu mentioned partnerships with Shoppers and Village Supermarket for bonus perks, plus discounts at spots like Karambezi Café and the airport lounge. Special cashback drops happened on Black Friday, Cyber...
Retired Chief Justice Mohammed Chande Othman says the independent commission he leads will dig into election violence across mainland Tanzania and track down what actually went down. He met with reporters in Dar es Salaam and promised victims will get heard while the investigation stays transparent.
The probe covers 14 districts that saw problems, but the team also wants to check out places that stayed calm to figure out why some areas exploded while others kept their cool. Chande plans to interview everyone from victims and suspects to political parties, election officials, religious leaders, business owners, security forces, and journalists. The commission can legally summon anyone for questioning, and he wants cooperation so...
African leaders at a conference in Algiers want colonial-era crimes officially recognized and are pushing for reparations. Algerian Foreign Minister Ahmed Attaf said his country dealt with serious abuse under French rule, and he wants compensation plus stolen property returned through a legal framework that treats restitution as an obligation rather than some kind of favor.
The African Union passed a resolution earlier this year calling for justice over colonial crimes, and diplomats are trying to build momentum behind it. Attaf pointed out that African nations still deal with exclusion and economic setbacks because of what happened back then. International law already bans slavery, torture, and apartheid, and the UN Charter blocks...
President Samia Suluhu Hassan is meeting with Dar es Salaam elders at the Julius Nyerere International Conference Center, and she's set to give a speech that's basically about keeping the country locked in on peace and unity while pumping up its reputation at home and abroad. Regional Commissioner Albert Chalamila said the whole thing is meant to strengthen diplomatic ties and make sure Tanzania stays hot for foreign investors.
Chalamila called it a forum that brings back hope and patches things up wherever people got hurt. The president is bringing government officials and other big names along for the event.
Tanzania's government told Burundian refugees at camps that citizenship isn't happening, and they need to head back home since things have settled down there. Home Affairs Minister George Simbachawene laid it out at a meeting with Burundi and UNHCR reps, saying the camps aren't turning into permanent spots, and refugees shouldn't expect integration into the country's development plans.
Burundi's Richard Ndayisaba from their Home Affairs ministry said his country is ready to take people back. UNHCR rep Barbara Dotse confirmed they'll work with everyone to make the return process voluntary and rights-based. Regional commissioners from Kigoma, Katavi, and Tabora showed up since those areas host the refugee populations.
