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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 COVID-denying leader urges prayer as cases climb

Tanzania President John Magufuli July 2020

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.

Tanzania President John Magufuli Jul 2020

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 […]