Human rights organisation Amnesty has accused Apple, Samsung and Sony, among others, of failing to do basic checks to ensure minerals used in their products are not mined by children. UNICEF…
Newly elected mayors for Kinondoni and Ilala municipalities yesterday revealed their plans which they say are geared at restoring the city’s lost glory. The two have taken their positions after…
The plan, whose details will be unveiled in March this year, aims at raising the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) from $2000 in 1980s to about $10,000 in 2020.
The crises in Burundi and South Sudan, succession struggles in Zimbabwe. Hotly debated elections in Uganda and DRC, and less perceived ones in the Republic of Congo, Benin, Niger and Chad. 2016 is…
While some do not miss any occasion to portray Rwanda as a wonderland, praising Kagame's leadership, others claim the country's development and groth euphoria to be a fairy tale and paint the picture…
"Instead of an economy that works for the prosperity of all, for future generations, and for the planet, we have instead created an economy for the 1%," Oxfam's report says.
In one of Africa’s most densely populated countries, brothers are killing brothers over the right to farm mere acres of earth. There’s just not enough land to go around in Burundi — and it could push…
The eastern Congo has been ravaged by foreign invasions and homegrown rebellions that have killed and displaced millions. A fragile peace process seeks to bring stability to central Africa, but its…
At some stage, both sides in Burundi’s increasingly bloody political crisis are likely to be sitting across the table from one another in Arusha, Tanzania, looking to agree a political settlement.
East African Community (EAC) leaders came under fire once again yesterday for failing to respond to the Burundian crisis as the human rights activists had called for the suspension of the country…
