By Mercy Ambani* The Horn of Africa is experiencing its worst drought in four decades. Kenya’s National Drought Management Authority estimates that 4.35 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance. Climate change has seen the country graduate from facing drought every seven years to the weather becoming unpredictable thus affecting food production in the country. In October 2022, a decade later, Kenya ...
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MIKATABA YA UWEKEZAJI KATI YA NCHI MBILI (MIUMBI) NA ATHARI ZAKE KWA TANZANIA
Kitabu hiki kinatoa uchambuzi wa siasa-uchumi kuhusu MIUMBI na athari zake kwa nchi ya dunia ya tatu kama Tanzania. Waandishi wametumia lugha rahisi ambayo msomaji yeyote anaweza kuielewa hata kama ni mara ya kwanza kusikia kuhusu MIUMBI. Ni jambo la kutia faraja kuwa kitabu hiki kimeandikwa kwa lugha yetu wenyewe. Msomaji atapata mifano dhahiri kuhusu mambo yaliyojiri kihistoria hadi kufikia nchi kuanza kuwekeana mi ...
AUDIT REPORT FOR THE YEAR 2021
You may now read the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Tanzania’s Audit Report for the year ending the 31st December 2021 on our website To download the report click the save icon or click on the three dots (...) on the toolbar then select save. Click here to read the entire report ...
Drought Situation in Kenya 2022: The Case of Narok County
Narok is one of the 21 Counties categorized as Arid and Semi-Arid (ASALs) in Kenya. The county lies in the Great Rift Valley, home to a few major rivers, arid and rugged landscapes, and volcanic landforms with areas of prominent geothermal activities. The County covers an area of 17,933.1 Km2. with a population of 1,157,873 (KNBS, 2019). Narok County is endowed with diverse natural resources and a rich Maasai cult ...
Overview of Kenya’s Political Situation: 2022 Elections
Kenya is set to hold a general election on 9 August 2022 and at all levels of the political spectrum, there is intense activity with various political factions butting for their political future. In this paper, Kimaren Riamit gives an overview of Kenya’s political situation with specific focus on the country’s 2022 general election with references to historical events, contemporary challenges and the future trajector ...
Premiere Mainland, Vuta N’kuvute; Mlimani City, Century Cinemax
Vuta N’Kuvute (Tug of War) based on Adam Shafi’s award-winning Swahili novel, is a coming-of-age political drama about love and resistance set in the final years of British colonial Zanzibar. The film weaves through 1950s coastal culture across the divides of class and racial segregation that were imposed by the colonial regime. Denge, a frustrated and rebellious Zanzibari young man who is part of the freedom struggl ...
ALTERNATIVE NARRATIVE’S ON MAGUFULI’S LEGACY; A REMINDER THAT WE OWE HIS SPIRIT AN APOLOGY
AUTHOR: Christine Mfanga* March 17th 2021 will always be remembered by the Tanzanians for having gone with their beloved president, the late John Joseph Pombe Magufuli. The beloved part was for the poor majority though, and not the middle class elites and their western masters. It’s a year now since his transition and his legacy has also remained contested between the two sides, it’s either the narrativ ...
“Europe in listening mode”
A new benchmark for success: making trade and investment contribute to the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 The European Parliament`s Committee on International Trade (INTA) will prepare its first draft position for the European Parliament on the future trade relations between the EU and Africa. The report of the European Parliament, which together with the results of the EU-Africa Summit ...