In a quick revisit to the challenges on road safety in Tanzania one can draw a special attention in the end of March 2013 during the debate at the British Council that was organized the by the Policy Forum an umbrella body of Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs).
It was established during the presentation by a medical doctor Omary Ubuguyo, when he said that apart from alcoholism and drug abuse another major cause of accidents is the fact that a good number of drivers are incompetent to drive motor vehicles on medical grounds.
Recently the Tanzanian Ambassador to China H.E. Abdulrahaman A. Shimbo held an exclusive interview with media representatives of three media outlets, namely Shout-Africa-Com, and other two media outlets from China the Jiangsu Broadcasting Corporation (JSBC), and the Xinhua Daily News (XDN) following are excerpts from the interview.
As part of its Equity and Inclusion Policy in the provision of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) service delivery, the British Charity "WaterAid" has turned over a latrine facility to the disable in Bomi County.
The Charity in concert with one of its local partners, United Youth For Peace, Education, Transparency & Development in Liberia (UYPETDL) turned over the latrine to the disable in Cooper Town Community in Tubmanburg over the weekend.
Providing an overview of the project, the National Executive Director of UYPETDL Timothy Kpeh said the objective of the project is to bring about equity and inclusion in the provision of WASH service delivery in the country.
Several debates are going one about the best economic model for Africa, as to whether the public sector can thrive in a modern world stiff competition in the business sector.
In Tanzania the First President Julius Nyerere had almost copied the Chinese model but claimed that the philosophy of Ujamaa na Kujitegemea simply socialism and self-reliance were not imported but rather emanated from within from the African communitarian lifestyle.
But with the advent of multiparty politics in early 90s, many African countries abandoned their systems and accommodated big elements of the free market economy which they propagated to bring economic miracles, but this has not worked out favourably and one just wonders why this is happening.
The Month of March 2016 was globally celebrated as Water Action Month in an effort to push the world to fulfill the Sustainable Development Goals.
2016 is set to be an exciting year for campaigning and advocacy on Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), as this year marks the beginning of the new Sustainable Development Goals (Global Goals), setting the development agenda until 2030.
Water Action Month is an opportunity to ignite and increase ‘the call’ for water accessibility, governance and accountability.
