Compassion not barbed wire should greet migrants, Nobel winner Gurnah says
Canterbury, UK Reuters Europe should greet migrants with compassion rather than barbed wire and the British Government is “rather nasty” about those who seek asylum, said Tanzanian writer Abdulrazak Gurnah, who won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday. Gurnah, who explored the legacies of imperialism on uprooted individuals in his books, said he […]
Adapting to a changing climate: As oceans warm, Zanzibar’s women sea farmers grow sponges to stay afloat
KIM HARRISBERG, writing for Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on how women on the Tanzanian island of Zanzibar are adapting their work to changing climatic conditions…
Vaccine deserts: The poor nations trailing in the fight against COVID-19
NITA BHALLA and ANASTASIA MOLONEY, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, report on how, as rich countries open up and start vaccinating less vulnerable younger people, poor countries are still struggling to secure vaccines…
COVID-19 cases surge in Africa, less than 0.8 per cent of people fully vaccinated, say officials
Nairobi, Kenya Reuters COVID-19 cases rose by over 20 per cent week-on-week in nearly two dozen African countries and progress on vaccinating Africans is proceeding slowly, with just 0.79 per cent of people on the continent fully vaccinated, senior health officials said on Thursday. “Africa is in the midst of a full blown third wave…We’ve […]
Renowned conservationist Jane Goodall wins Templeton Prize
AP Jane Goodall, the conservationist renowned for her expertise on chimpanzees and her globe-spanning advocacy of environmental causes, was named Thursday as this year’s winner of the prestigious Templeton Prize, honoring individuals whose life’s work embodies a fusion of science and spirituality. Goodall, born in London in 1934, traveled to Kenya in 1957 and met […]
UN warns Tanzania not to reject people fleeing Mozambique violence
Johannesburg, South Africa Reuters United Nations teams have received “worrying” reports that Tanzania has rejected over 1,000 people seeking refuge from an Islamic State-claimed attack on a town in northern Mozambique, the UN refugee agency UNHCR said on Tuesday. The 24th March attack on the town of Palma, adjacent to gas developments worth $US60 billion, […]
Thousands find refuge after insurgent attack in Mozambique gas town
Maputo, Mozambique Reuters Thousands of people fleeing an attack claimed by Islamic State have made their way to safety elsewhere in northern Mozambique, aid workers said, while a small group of victims arrived by boat in neighbouring Tanzania. Insurgents hit the coastal town of Palma, adjacent to gas projects worth $US60 billion, with a three-pronged […]
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. […]