Kizito Makoye
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Tanzania, United Republic of
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Bike sharing helps Johannesburg township commuters beat the traffic
Johannesburg might not seem an obvious cycling city - but one entrepreneur is getting some of the city's poorest on wheels → Read More
Tanzanian city gets new sewage scheme to curb disease, ocean pollution
Wastewater treatment plants, to be built in a $600-million project backed by the World Bank and other donors, are intended to improve human and marine health → Read More
FEATURE-Mobile power payments and smart meters plug in Tanzanian homes
Digital payments are helping make off-grid power sources like solar and wind more economically viable → Read More
FEATURE-Mobile power payments and smart meters plug in Tanzanian homes
Digital payments are helping make off-grid power sources like solar and wind more economically viable → Read More
Six jailed in Tanzania for chopping off hand of albino boy
By Kizito MakoyeDAR ES SALAAM (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A Tanzanian court has sentenced six men to 20 years in jail each for chopping off the ha → Read More
Six jailed in Tanzania for chopping off hand of albino boy
Albinos are attacked for their body parts, which are prized in witchcraft and can fetch a high price → Read More
Buzz as world's biggest drone drug deliveries take off in Tanzania
By Kizito MakoyeNAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Tanzania is set to launch the world's largest drone delivery network in January, with drones p → Read More
Buzz as world's biggest drone drug deliveries take off in Tanzania
Drones will cut the drug delivery bill for Tanzania's capital by $58,000 a year → Read More
Tanzania charges mob with killing, burning five 'witches'
By Kizito MakoyeDAR ES SALAAM (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A Tanzanian court has charged 32 people with murder after five women suspected of witchc → Read More
Tanzania charges mob with killing, burning five 'witches'
Thousands of elderly Tanzanian women have been strangled, knived to death and burned or buried alive over the last two decades after being denounced as witches → Read More
FEATURE-Tanzania's circumcisers swap cows' tails for commerce
"FGM is still taking place because it is a big source of income for the cutters. We want to see more ngaribas dropping their knives" By Kizito Makoye DAR ES SALAAM, Aug 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When a group of elderly Tanzanian women asked Martha Daud to start circumcising girls 30 years ago, she was honoured as it meant she would earn money, status and choice cuts of meat. Female… → Read More
Tanzania seizes ex-PM's farm in crackdown on 'idle' land
The east African nation has become increasingly concerned about land speculation by investors and the conflict it creates with local residents → Read More
Trust the nurse? Not everyone does in Tanzania
DAR ES SALAAM: Florence Nightingale would turn in her grave if she heard some of the stories circulating in Tanzania about how nurses treat their pregnant patients. Tales of bullying. Scolding. Verbal abuse, face slapping and of women being tied to their beds, such is the breakdown in trust between some hospital nurses and those in their care. “I don’t want to remember that day. Only God knows… → Read More
Trust the nurse? Not everyone does in Tanzania
By Kizito MakoyeDAR ES SALAAM (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Florence Nightingale would turn in her grave if she heard some of the stories circulatin → Read More
FEATURE - Trust the nurse? Not everyone does in Tanzania
"When an overworked nurse uses foul language, it is likely to add salt to the injury in an already frosty relationship with patients" By Kizito Makoye DAR ES SALAAM, Aug 3 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Florence Nightingale would turn in her grave if she heard some of the stories circulating in Tanzania about how nurses treat their pregnant patients. Tales of bullying. Scolding. Verbal abuse,… → Read More
Five women beaten and burned part of rising wave of Tanzanian "witch killings"
Thousands of elderly Tanzanian women have been strangled, knifed to death and burned alive over the last two decades after being denounced as witches → Read More
Farmers pushed off their land to save Tanzania's Great Ruaha River
The government accuses farmers of illegally squatting on protected land along the river banks. Now, thousands face eviction → Read More
FEATURE-Tanzania's women street cooks hope for safety, loans
"Urban food vending may be a good tool for creating livelihood security for the urban poor, but to achieve this there has to be better policy initiatives" By Kizito Makoye DAR ES SALAAM, July 10 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - It's nearly midday at the bustling Tegeta bus terminal in Tanzania's biggest city and Olivia Mbiku is busy preparing ugali - a popular maize meal - beef stew and vegetables… → Read More
Tanzania sets aside special room for lactating legislators
Women are routinely castigated in some countries for exposing their flesh to nurse → Read More
Tanzania's ban on pregnant girls in school violates basic rights
More than 55,000 Tanzanian schoolgirls have been expelled from school over the last decade for being pregnant → Read More