Msimbati, rich on natural gas but they use oil lamps
It’s evening at Msimbati village of Mtwara rural district and oil lamps can been seen all over the place. A few well off families use electric charged lamps. The majority…
Hope remains that these achievements can be sustained
I have been visiting Nyakahanga hospital this week in Karagwe district.This district in Kagera region is just reeling from shortage of artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs)/ anti malaria drugs commonly known…
A positive turn is taking place in Muleba homes, quietly
There is a quiet turn of things taking place in this Kagera district. What is happening is a radical result of what started as a haste intervention by the state,…
Muleba issues forming local political debates
A few months ago, I did a story on Muleba’s changing political chess board. It was a month before the Chama Cha Mapinduzi primary polls. Todate, whatever was rumoured on…
Authorities must improve public toilets at Mtwara airport
I last flew from Mtwara airport to the then Dar es Salaam International Airport over a decade ago. Things have improved slightly since then, thought not so impressive. The run…
Mto wa Mbu girls own nice houses
Mto wa Mbu is a rapidly flourishing township of Monduli district. Most of the beautiful and modern houses here are owned by women, to be precise, pretty girls who make…
Where it is cattle and harvest first then school
IN class six, about 40 mostly pupils, with white-turned brown uniforms and others with ‘yebbo yebbo’ as shoes , squeeze themselves on a bench in the classroom. Others, with an…
EAC must deploy troops to Somalia
Ugandans are mourning after a dastardly terrorist attack in Kampala left more than 70 people dead and several others injured. Somali terrorist organization linked to Al Qaeda, Al Shabab claimed…
‘Rural’ will continue losing their best
I am treading a sensitive path ,I know. Villages losing their best! So what? Well, finally, I have settled down on the rural side where I've already been for a…