BY KUSEKWA KUSEKWA The High Court in Arusha has dismissed a rare case in Tanzania of professional negligence in which a city resident, Bernard Matala, was demanding Sh. 350m in compensation from Shree Hindu Union Charitable Hospital for causing him deafness allegedly through the application of expired eardrop medication to his right ear. Judge Mwenda…
BY THE ARUSHA NEWS REPORTER Four Points by Sheraton Arusha, The Arusha Hotel, in partnership with NSK Hospitals, will host a breast cancer awareness walk followed by free on-site screening on Saturday, October 25, 2025. Participants will gather at the hotel forecourt. The community walk will follow a short city route and return to the…
By David Chikoko. A small mistake turned into an irreversible tragedy on October 11, 2025 in Arusha’s Kaloleni area, when an off-duty police officer, Omary Mnandi (30), was mobbed to death after entering and falling asleep in a parked car that resembled his own following an evening outing.When the owner of the car and friends…
From Seif Mangwangi at Namanga CRDB Bank has extended its footprint to the Tanzania–Kenya border with the launch of a new branch at Namanga’s One-Stop Border Post, a strategic hub for regional trade. The expansion is aimed at capturing rising cross-border business flows and providing traders and investors with easier access to financial services at…
Many of us are really scared to say: I do not know, I am not sure of this or that, let me find the right answer. They will try to respond to every question. Parading their knowledge becomes a part of life. When I reflect on this kind of behaviour, I realise that I too…
When should you start changing your diet to a Whole-Food Plant-Based (WFPB) one? The answer is simple: Start now. There’s no better time to begin eating for health, healing and longevity. You don’t have to wait until you fall sick or until the New Year. Each meal is a new opportunity to nourish your body…
The other week I received a call from Kinshasa. The caller was a long-time friend from the early 1990s. We first became acquainted in those years when he came to Arusha with his Congolese rumba band. The story is long. By then, I had already become an “Arusha vet”. I was in the employ of…
Have you ever mended anything? I can thoroughly recommend it. Coming from an engineering family, I regarded it as completely normal that whenever anything broke it was immediately taken apart, examined and potentially restored to some kind of function. For as long as I can remember, I was mending my own punctures, replacing brake cables…
RIP: Robert Nigel Ralph Wallace. BY SUKHDEV CHHATBAR It is with deep sadness that we at The Arusha News mourn the passing of Braeburn School teacher Robert Nigel Ralph Wallace, who died on October 8, 2025, in Arusha in a tragic hit-and-run accident while cycling – an activity he loved dearly. He was 67 years…
There was a man coughing non-stop in that afternoon train. During such warm weather, a vicious uncomfortable cough, was odd. Had it been those days of Covid and the unseen, illogical fear of – an unknown disease – we would have been genuinely, terrified. Ouff awf awffff! Awful it was , making the man’s miserable…
