Managing water resources key for Tanzania’s sanitation fight
Part 2: Funding biggest bottleneck for carrying out plans; CSE team finds greywater mismanagement too
Tanzania to establish fund to conserve Lake Victoria basin
Fund will be used to help develop fishing as a sustainable source of income for more than a million people who depend on the lake’s resources
Fast-spreading banana fungus poses major threat to African food security
High risk as same banana strain grown in most plantations; Staple food for millions can be affected
Africa’s Tanzania loses 60 per cent elephants to poaching
Neighbour Mozambique had recently revealed that it lost nearly half of its elephant population in five years
Focus on sewerage system won’t clean up cities and rivers, says expert
Two-thirds people in cities are not even connected to sewerage and use onsite sanitation systems or defecate in the open
Tanzania
New estimates show 14.8 million children globally are HIV-exposed but uninfected
While many children who are HIV-exposed and also HIV-uninfected are growing and developing well, some face greater risks
Update
Africa gets substandard malaria drugs
EAST AFRICA
Tuskers going tusk-less in Tanzania
The rising number of tusk-less elephants in Tanzania could be due to genetic reasons, not poaching, says the government
Mozambique, Tanzania fail to curb poaching
Poachers refuse to pay fine, hunting firm violates wildlife rules
Should ivory trade be legalised?
International ban on ivory trade has neither reduced elephant poaching nor the volume of the illegal trade. Is it time the trade is legalised? …
British king acknowledges colonial atrocities in Kenya — here’s what could happen next
Public acknowledgements of colonial legacy in east Africa by Britain, German and Belgium can be classified under broad framework of transitional …
Barriers under pestle
There is an urgent need to rationalise traditional medicinal systems to stop unscrupulous use
Trouble ahead for Horn of Africa as white maize stocks dry up
Experts are worried that drops in surplus will leave very little for Horn of Africa’s needs
Alternatives to endosulfan
FAO to give suggestions on the pesticide to committee on persistent organic pollutants
Dash for gas: 7 new countries enter African gas markets
84% new reserves to come up in the 7 countries that have no history of fossil gas exploitation, finds Global Energy Monitor
A continental crisis, and a few green shoots
African countries are fighting an addiction: import of food items, which happens at the cost of domestic farmers. Despite the unprecedented …
Mithi is a river, not real estate
Jagdish Gandhi wears many hats. A historian writing a book on Mumbai’s colonial past, he was among those responsible for restoring the …
Proposed Tata plant in Tanzania threat to flamingo habitat
Malawi, Tanzania to track climate change to reduce burden of diseases
Increasing temperatures and more intense rainfall, floods in recent years have increased incidence of malaria and other diseases
East Africa unites with UN, Interpol to curb illegal logging
Global partnership seeks to check deforestation and crossborder illegalities in timber trade
Dar-es-Salaam’s waste management needs a complete revamp
The waste crisis at Pugu dumpsite in Tanzania’s economic capital is rising and urgent interventions are needed
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