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…

Finnigan wa Simbeye

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…

Orton Kiishweko

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,…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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‘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…

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