In order to be truly accountable, the World Bank must immediately stop funding the REGROW project in Mbarali, which threatens to evict tens of thousands of people from their legally registered villages.
In our briefing today:
Tanzania re-selected to the MCC after a seven years hiatus; Personal Data Protection Commission board’s chairperson appointed; Joseph Oleshangay: Winner of Weimar Human Rights Prize shares future of his activism; AfDB approves over $600m for 650-kilometre Tanzania, Burundi rail infrastructure; History as MNH launches first-ever hyperbaric machine in East Africa; Remmy Ongala: The life, death and legacy of legendary musician.
He vows to continue the fight against authorities’ attempts to ‘evict’ his people from their ancestral land.
In our briefing today: 47 dead following heavy rain that caused mudslides in Hanang, Tanzania; PM:Tanganyika independence day celebrations will be held at regional level; Governmnet expect to complete 5000 housing units by March 2024 for the relocation of Ngorongoro residents; We Should Seriously Address Violence Against Women Before Giving Addresses
Tourism Minister Kairuki will grace a dinner gala at the famous Gran Melia Hotel in the tourist town of Arusha, where the event will launch.
In our briefing today: Judge suspends Senior Advocate amidst representation of a lawyer who opposed the Tanzania-Dubai port deal; Artists in Tanzania demand creative freedom: ‘We’re being censored’; Tanzania’s activists up in arms over planned ‘Epic Tanzania Tour’ in Ngorongoro; Twenty-five years of struggle: Transport workers and the ‘rights of the wretched’ in neoliberal Tanzania.
In our briefing today: Government seized 30,000 livestock in 2022. Outcry continues in Loliondo and Ngorongoro as more livestock are seized; Tanzania Police arrested cleric and ten others for organizing pro-Palestine demonstrations; He was a towering, multifaceted personality’: Happy posthumous 85th birthday, Benjamin William Mkapa
While authorities defend the arrangement, ongoing tensions between local communities and conservation authorities leave critics concerned.
In their song, the musicians also call out the government’s failure to be accountable to citizens.
Wananchi wamelalamika kupigwa na kubolewa nyumba zao na askari wa hifadhi ikiwa ni sehemu ya kuwalazimisha wahame kwenye ardhi yao.
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