BY THE ARUSHA NEWS REPORTER Efforts to tackle flooding and improve road safety have taken centre stage in the newly approved 2026/27 Budget of the Arusha City Council, with billions of shillings earmarked for drainage systems, gravel roads and the installation of CCTV cameras along key routes in the city. The council approved a total…
BY MBONEKO MUNYAGA East Africans have hailed the outcome of the 25th Ordinary Summit of the East African Community (EAC), which convened in Arusha on March 7, 2026, describing the decisions taken as “historic” and likely to necessitate amendments to the Treaty that revived the regional economic bloc some 26 years ago. A communiqué issued…
Two concurrent episodes regarding the saga of overseas African domestic workers, otherwise called “house-girls”, caught my attention recently. BBC Swahili and other media outlets reported Ugandan, Vicky Ajok, charged with the murder of her 87 year old employer veteran Syria actress, Huda Shaarawi in Damascus in January. Vicky Ajok facing death by hanging or beheading,…
The seasons of Lent for Christians and Ramadan for Muslims are far more than periods of abstaining from food and drink. They are sacred times of reflection, repentance, self-discipline and spiritual renewal. Within these spiritual practices lies a powerful opportunity to reshape eating habits and embrace a Whole Food Plant-Based Diet (WFBD), a way of…
AFCON 2027 is just around the corner – approximately 15 months from now. If anyone believes that the event is still far away and that preparations can be left until tomorrow, they need to be reminded that whatever must be done should have started yesterday. “Attack by stratagem; timing is everything in strategy,” wrote Sun…
Welcome to our weekly Health Diaries column, where we explore a range of health-related topics and simplify complex medical concepts for our readers. One of the most serious medical conditions that can develop during pregnancy is hypertension, or high blood pressure. When not detected and managed early, it can threaten the lives of both mother…
When East African Heads of State and Government meet in Arusha today, Saturday, March 7, 2026, they will need, very sternly, to call each other out for letting the East African Community (EAC)’s future dangle in limbo. Intergovernmental cooperation is basically an extension of a country’s civil service. Who on earth runs a civil service…
Football or Soccer as the Americans call it, is an English game. In the Netflix series The English Game, the origin and evolution of the sport is brilliantly depicted from being one of the rich and the elite to becoming a path of freedom and growth for the poor and the common man. If you’re…
It was a wonderful early morning as we set off from Tukuyu, a small hillside town founded in 1900 by the Germans as a colonial town in Rungwe District of the Mbeya Region. We were travelling in a pickup, enjoying a 360-degree view as we drove towards the home of God’s Bridge. A fine, fresh…
After speaking at the recent Munich Security Conference, some analysts accused US Secretary of State Marc Rubio of urging the West to revive colonialism. I found it hard to believe that anyone in their right mind would promote 15th-century imperial ambitions in the 21st century. Surely, I thought, these were exaggerated claims. Yet I soon…
