CAPCOM might actually be cooking up a new Dead Rising game after letting the series collect dust since 2016. Sources claim the project kicked off around 2023 under the codename Rec, and Frank West is supposedly back as the main character for what sounds like a sequel set between the first and second games.
The leaked details point to a Hollywood film studio as the setting where some unhinged director forces Frank and other survivors through twisted movie-making challenges. Time limits are coming back after getting dropped from Dead Rising 4, with the director threatening to detonate the whole lot if people refuse to play along. The villain apparently sends psychopaths after Frank, and one of them is a dude Frank previously rescued who...
Arusha National Park sits about 25 kilometers from its namesake city in northern Tanzania, and it packs way more punch than its 552-square-kilometer footprint suggests. The place is basically three ecosystems smashed together: the Meru Crater in the west, Ngurdoto Crater in the southeast, and seven alkaline Momella Lakes up northeast that shift colors based on their mineral content.
Mount Meru towers at 4,566 meters as Tanzania's second-highest peak, and the park hosts one of the planet's biggest giraffe populations alongside buffaloes, leopards, elephants, and over 400 bird species. The Momella Lakes pull in massive flamingo flocks, while Ngurdoto Crater operates as a walking-safari-only zone since vehicles can't descend into it.
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A recent capacity-building session in Dodoma brought together stakeholders to tackle gender inequality in Tanzania's education sector. Dr. Consolata Sulley from the University of Dar es Salaam dropped some heavy stats, noting that only 68.8 percent of the global gender gap has been closed. At the current pace, full parity won't happen for another 123 years, and the political empowerment gap is even worse at 162 years out.
The training, organized by HakiElimu under their SAUTI ZETU project, focused on strategic gender needs rather than just quick fixes. Participants learned about gender-based constraints like early marriage and limited access to menstrual hygiene products that keep girls from finishing school. Dr. Hildergade Mehrab from...
This anti-abortion group, called Human Life International, wants to lobby East African lawmakers about bills they think mess with traditional values. Emil Hagamu runs their English-speaking Africa operation and said they already started campaigning but admitted they have basically no money to work with. The org is banking on regional religious beliefs to carry their message instead.
Hagamu trashed how the bills got written without asking stakeholders for input and wants to meet with the legislative assembly speaker plus friendly lawmakers. He told reporters these draft laws have been getting tweaked since 2017, and he claims they still have stuff that could change how communities view families and religion.
Tanzania's agriculture ministry is doubling down on ecological farming with help from PELUM Tanzania, which just hit its 30-year anniversary. The deputy permanent secretary gave them props for helping write up policies and getting 13 traditional seed types officially registered and legal.
They're planning to build a national gene bank to store indigenous seeds and keep biodiversity alive. A farmer from Kilimanjaro said the old-school seeds boosted her harvests and let her pay for her kids' education, and she pointed out how traditional varieties keep soil healthy way longer than hybrid stuff. The government wants more investment in local seed growers who live out in rural areas and actually feed the country.
The South Korean ambassador swung by this Tanzanian tech university and basically gushed about how the school is crushing it with innovation and research that actually matters for the country's economy. She said the students and faculty are putting in serious work to solve real problems, and this whole visit sets up better partnerships between the two countries going forward.
The university's boss talked up how they get students working directly with local communities and businesses to create stuff that actually helps people instead of just sitting in labs. South Korea has been backing the school for years with funding for professors and buildings, and they're even building some kind of tech park together to pump out new products and...
The University of Dar es Salaam just dropped contracts worth around 8.6 billion shillings to deck out their campuses with new furniture and internet stuff. They were supposed to sign deals totaling over 10 billion, but two companies ghosted the signing event, so those papers are getting mailed out separately.
One firm is handling furniture installation for 21 buildings spread across different regions for about 4.7 billion, and a bunch of tech companies are splitting the rest to wire up all the colleges with proper connectivity. The university council chair said the whole campus should have internet everywhere within four months, and the project is sitting at 81 percent completion right now. The vice-chancellor mentioned this only...
Tanzania's foreign minister sat down with a bunch of diplomats and basically told them the country still wants to play nice despite all the chaos that went down after their election. The government set up some commission to figure out what caused the protests and violence, and they want everyone to chill out while the investigation happens.
The minister pushed back on the European Union's recent vote about cutting funds, saying Tanzania's ambassador over in Brussels is working the diplomatic channels to smooth things over. He asked foreign governments and organizations to stop releasing statements about the situation since it might mess with the inquiry that's happening right now.
Ruto went full stunt mode when he hopped into the driver's seat of a school bus he just donated to some girls' school out in Garissa County. The president was there laying down foundation stones for expansion work at Yusuf Haji Girls Secondary, and he decided to personally drive the new bus onto campus while everyone watched. He kept talking about how the government pumped massive cash into education to hire teachers and fix up schools.
The whole driving thing has become his signature move lately since he did the same bit with a truck when opening up some highway project. After the school visit, Ruto bounced over to a wedding for the intelligence chief's son, and he showed up with a bunch of cabinet ministers and government bigwigs in tow.
