By The Arusha News Reporter The East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) will resume it its plenary session virtually on Monday and will stretch to July 8. The session will consider and approve the East African Community (EAC) draft estimates for the 2025/2026 financial year, as well as the supplementary budget for 2024/2025, according to EALA…
By Kusekwa Kusekwa The High Court sitting in Moshi has sentenced a 31-year-old resident of Hai District in Kilimanjaro Region, Michael Justine Mboro, to 10 years in prison after convicting him of manslaughter in the killing of his younger brother, Emmanuel Justine Mboro, during a family dispute three years ago. Originally charged with murder, Michael’s…
It starts off calm – support and love,“Good morning” this and dawn above.Rising devotion, the tone less formal,With many more less formal.And sisters fighting every hour. Aunt Mary posts in CAPS ALL DAY;Uncle Joe texts jokes from May.Grandma says “Am in” to silence,While cousins plot in football schemes.Summer uncles miss a well.The space name perhaps…
By Nicodemus Ikonko June 15, 2025 marked a milestone for newly revamped and upgraded Arusha Airport when it welcomed its inaugural scheduled international flight from Nairobi’s Wilson Airport with equipment owned by Flightlink Limited, formerly Flightlink Air Charters, belonging to Tanzanian, Captain Munawer P. Dhiran. Tanzania Airports Authority (TAA) Director General, Mr Abdul Athumani Mombokaleo,…
Tanzanian laws relating to the environment can be grouped into two main categories: land use planning and management laws, pollution-related legislation, and laws promoting conservation and environmental protection. Tanzania’s environmental legal framework acknowledges the interrelationship between the environment and other vital sectors, notably public health (for both animals and humans), agriculture, climate resilience, livelihoods, and…
Two weeks ago this column featured personal experience of life in JKT (the compulsory National Service), in 1973. Some esteemed female readers wanted to know how it was for women. To put a perspective reader, most were 18 by the time camps for girls began. Yes, it is a long time. Today we have more…
That is a centuries old maxim Native Americans teach. It is a wise saying that cautions the powerful to be careful in the use of their power. When I was growing up, I was often puzzled as to how we use our everyday lives. We never discuss our lives and yet do not in many…
The new Director-General of East, Central and Southern African Health Community (ECSA-HC), Dr Ntuli Kapologwe, shares a bold ten-year vision to transform health in the region. He pledges to elevate the organisation’s visibility, expand membership and pioneer regional Centres of Excellence. He emphasises decentralised financing, digital innovation and cross-border health diplomacy and outlines strategies for…
There’s a health crisis quietly growing along the Kenya–Tanzania border and it’s about time we started treating it with the urgency it deserves. Wild meat is being hunted, traded and eaten in many border areas, while it has in many sense become a matter of food or culture, the truth is much scarier: Wild meat…
At the end of our two-week incarceration in a cell at the Oljoro National Service (JKT) Camp in Arusha – punishment for going AWOL (Absent Without Official Leave) during transit from Mtwara line – the late Aanei Laiser and I were finally released and rejoined our fellow recruits in the daily tasks at the camp….
