Many Tanzanian experts, like me, are deservingly quiet, watching how the country is progressing in terms of realizing its cherished dream. But some recent series of articles obviously calculated at destroying the image of Tanzania are disquieting thus a comeback.
One such latest example is Washington Post’s article published 30, 2018 entitled: “Why is Once- Peaceful Tanzania Detaining Journalists, Arresting School Girls and Killing Opposition Leaders?
The erroneous, incompetent, non-factual article was written by one Rachael McLellan who calls herself a PhD Candidate at Princeton University, researching on opposition parties and decentralization in Tanzania.
The story of the Telegraph newspaper on Tanzania’s Rufiji Hydro Power Project in Tanzania, written by one Adrian Blomfield fits, exactly in what Kierkegaard tells. It is fooling.
Needless to say, the Telegraph, has seriously negated journalism professionalism and used their newspaper as a racist tool to fool Africans, is a clear manifestation of a serious problem in European journalism.
The Sierra Leone community in the northeastern United States has given a final solemn farewell to one of its founding members at a well-attended prayer and remembrance ceremony in Manhattan, New York City over the weekend.
Alhaji Sorie Kamara from Mambolo, in northern Sierra Leone, died at Mount Sinai St. Luke’s Hospital in Manhattan on January 9 following a short illness. He was 74. His remains were interred in a New York cemetery.
The Zimbabwean Agricultural scheme (Command Agriculture) aimed at ensuring food self-sufficiency that was introduced at the start of the 2016 – 2017 farming season following the drought of the previous season has left Zimbabwe in a USD2 billion debt according to business consultant/ Journalist Munyaradzi Mugowo.
Addressing journalists at a media training workshop on debt discourse hosted by Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt and Development (ZIMCODD), Mugowo indicated that Zimbabwe in a short period accumulated a USD2 billion debt contributing to the already recorded Zimbabwe’s National debt (domestic and external) of 18,4 billion according to Zimfact.
The Federal Government says it has put in place stiffer penalties for the suppliers of unwholesome farm inputs. This is in its effort to reduce the frequent circulation of fake and adulterated fertilizers in the markets.
Registrar, Nigerian Institute of Soil Science, Professor Victor Chude who revealed this at the opening of the capacity building and training workshop for fertilizer Inspectors in Mararaba, Nasarawa State, pointed that the stiffer sanctions have been provided for in the Nigeria Fertilizer Quality Control Bill 2017, before the National Assembly.
