Tanzania to allow students to restart education after giving birth

Dar es Salaam, TanzaniaReuters Tanzania will now allow girls aged 12-to-19-years-old who left school due to pregnancy to resume formal education after giving birth, its education minister said on Wednesday, ending a ban on the return of such students which has been criticised by rights groups as discriminatory. The move comes after a June announcement […]
Tanzania’s first female president takes office, breaking new ground for women in hijab

RNS A few years after becoming the first female vice president in Tanzanian history, Samia Suluhu Hassan was sworn in Friday as the country’s sixth president and the first female leader of East Africa’s largest country after the death of President John Magufuli on Wednesday. Samia Suluhu Hassan, 61, only the second Muslim to lead […]
COVID-19 in Tanzania: Amid deadly resurgence, officials maintain they can pray the “coronavirus devil” away

TONNY ONYULO, writing for Religion News Service, reports from Tanzania, on how religious leaders and government officials are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic…
Tanzania’s COVID-denying leader urges prayer as cases climb

Nairobi, Kenya AP Tanzania’s COVID-denying President is calling on citizens for three days of prayer to defeat unnamed “respiratory diseases” amid warnings that the country is seeing a deadly resurgence in infections. “Maybe we have wronged God somewhere,” populist President John Magufuli told mourners at a funeral for his chief secretary, John Kijazi, on Friday. […]
Tanzania says no plans in place to accept COVID-19 vaccines
Dodoma, TanzaniaAP Tanzania’s health ministry says it has no plans in place to accept COVID-19 vaccines, just days after the president of the country of 60 million people expressed doubt about the vaccines without offering evidence. Health Minister Dorothy Gwajima told a press conference in the capital, Dodoma, on Monday that “the ministry has no […]
Tanzania’s leader denies COVID. Now countrymen push back.

Nairobi, Kenya AP Tanzania’s President says God has eliminated COVID-19 in his country. His own church now begs to differ. From the local Catholic authority warning this week of a new wave of coronavirus infections, to government institutions now requiring staffers to take precautions, populist President John Magufuli is being openly questioned as the African […]
Coronavirus in Africa: Lack of data raises fears of “silent epidemic”

KATHARINE HOURELD and DAVID LEWIS, of Reuters, report on how the shortage of information detailing the spread of COVID-19 in Africa is hampering efforts to limits its spread…
Coronavirus in Africa: Tanzanian churches are a hub for prevention (and potential hotspot) for coronavirus

GEORGIA GEE, writing for Religion Unplugged, looks at how houses of worship in the East African country are responding to the coronavirus pandemic…