YET again, the Western media, having destroyed unity and harmony in some of their countries, have continues with the mudslinging campaign against some African countries especially the aggressive government of Tanzania.
The false news machine is back on track. I have just discovered President Trump is right in demanding accountability in the US media. As an intern who worked in the Zanzibar side of Tanzania for 2 years I felt bad to read the latest round of such falsehoods coming from a Washington Post article titled; “Why is once-peaceful Tanzania detaining journalists, arresting schoolgirls and killing opposition leaders?” authored by one Rachael McLellan.
Rural households depend on a wide range of natural resource assets for their livelihoods—land, water, trees, and other resources. Among these, land is clearly the most valuable asset in most rural households' portfolios, and is the foundation for agricultural production. A large literature exists on the relationship between land tenure security, livelihoods, and poverty.
In southeast part of Nigeria women are denied right to inheritance while only the males are beneficiaries of every family property. Outside that, when women are married and lose their spouses, family members in most cases dispossess them of their husband’s houses. In some cases, women have been asked to go remarry because they would want to take over their husband’s property, lands most of the time.
In a joint statement, the Heads of UN agencies, UNDP, UNICEF, UN Agencies Women and UNFPA, to commemorate this year’s International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, the Secretary-General’s UNiTE Campaign is calling upon us to stand in solidarity with survivors and survivor advocates and women’s human rights defenders who are working to prevent and end violence against women and girls.
The statement says "Our duty is not only to stand in solidarity with them but also to intensify our efforts to find solutions and measures to stop this preventable global scourge with a detrimental impact on women’s and girls’ lives and health".
A manufacturer of airbus planes in Mirabel, Montreal, in Canada, yesterday officially introduced a new plane, Airbus A220-300, to be operated for the first time in Africa, through the government of Tanzania airliner, Air Tanzania.
The plane manufacturing company says Tanzania’s airbus plane is the first one for airways companies on the African continent as the country’s reform minded President John Pombe Magufuli rocks the African skylines.
In Observance of World Toilet Day 2018 (November 19), WaterAid Liberia is reiterating calls on the Government of Liberia to commence action towards prioritising sanitation for all. This is followed by a new Report by WaterAid showing that the education and health of millions of children is threatened by a lack of access to toilets at school and at home.
“The Crisis in the Classroom”, WaterAid’s fourth-annual Analysis of the world’s toilets, highlights that one in five primary schools and one in eight secondary schools globally do not have any toilets.
