
When Roads Become Markets: Tanzania’s Public Space Crisis
Streets built for movement are turning into informal markets and private parking—costing lives, fueling congestion, and eroding public trust.

Streets built for movement are turning into informal markets and private parking—costing lives, fueling congestion, and eroding public trust.

A postmortem examination is underway at Lumumba Government Hospital by doctors and forensic specialists. Joseph McCann is in police custody and is being actively interrogated as part of the investigation.

Two Tanzanian radio journalists were seized from their studio following a debate on whether MPs should think more deeply before backing new taxes.

The Songo Songo gas field passes to local-led buyers, but even Taifa’s chairman calls for “clearer frameworks”—a quiet nod to the doubts that drove Orca away.

At Tanzania’s Nyerere literary awards, the Kenyan writer and former dissident rejected literary ornament and demanded Kiswahili replace colonial languages in schools.

Police say the American influencer died by suicide after a resort dispute, but her family questions the finding as online scrutiny grows.

Revolution has a hidden backbone: women who hold the space, keep the secrets, and clean up the crap—then get eaten by the rats.

In a strongly worded statement delivered on Friday, April 10, 2026, the party accused the government of undermining democracy and manipulating the electoral process, warning that the country’s political future is at risk.

Yote katika yote ukijumlisha na ‘idiolojia’ ya Magufuli na kama walioshika hatamu wataweza kuihimili au kuizima, inawezekana tukashuhudia 2030 ikawa tofauti sana kwa CCM kuliko mategemo na nadharia zilizozoeleka

An open letter to the Commissioner of Insurance details a harrowing accident and the subsequent bureaucratic nightmare with Sanlam Allianz.
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