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…
Before signing an employment contract in Tanzania, pause and read carefully, this document will shape your working life. Under the Employment and Labour Relations Act (ELRA) and general contract principles, an employment contract should always be in writing and clearly spell out essential terms. These include your job title, duties, place of work, working hours,…
Last week, I wrote about my maiden experience in Europe when I travelled to what was then East Berlin to study journalism in 1979. I recounted how my colleagues and I spent our first night huddled together at Sheremetyevo International Airport in Moscow, trying to keep warm in the extreme winter cold of the transit…
It was the early 1990s in Arusha. I was a representative of Radio Tanzania (RTD) and the late Benjamin Mkapa-then Minister for Higher Education—was in town representing President Ali Hassan Mwinyi as a mediator in the Burundi peace process. The mission was critical. To navigate the high-stakes tensions between the FDD-led CNDD later CNDD-FDD under…
It has been said time and again that development is not about things. A country cannot be said to experience development simply because it has skyscrapers, bridges and roads. Development is about people, hence the concept of people-centred development. Yet no development can occur without infrastructure such as roads, bridges, railways, power plants, ICT networks…
We checked into what would be our new home for the next nine months the International Institute of Journalism in Berlin, located in Friedrichshagen, a suburb south east of that historic German city. The institute was situated in the middle of a thick and vast pine forest, with the nearest settlement and urban train station…
