Nairobi, Kenya | AFP | The United States expressed concern Saturday over the “mistreatment” of two east African activists in Tanzania, days after they were detained and reportedly tortured. Prominent campaigners Boniface Mwangi of Kenya and Agather Atuhaire of Uganda travelled to Tanzania this week in solidarity with detained opposition …
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The Uganda High Commission in Dar takes off with ID registration as it hosts first diaspora convention in Tanzania to bolster national transformation Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | THE INDEPENDENT | Ugandans in Dar es Salaam have become the first diaspora community to register for and renew national identification cards …
Read More »Human rights activists demand apology from Tanzania
KAMPALA, UGANDA | THE INDEPENDENT | Human rights activists in Uganda are demanding an apology from the Tanzanian government over the treatment of Agather Atuhaire and Boniface Mwangi. Atuhaire was arrested along with her Kenyan counterpart, Mwangi, on Monday, May 19th, in Tanzania. The two were part of a delegation …
Read More »Activists call out Tanzania over inhumane treatment of rights activists
Nairobi, Kenya | THE INDEPENDENT | The East African Civil Society Organisations’ Forum (EACSOF) has castigated the government of Tanzania over its treatment of human rights activists from the East African Community (EAC). The group voiced its “deepest concern regarding the detention, denial of entry, and deportation” of citizens of …
Read More »🟥TANZANIA: Whereabouts of Ugandan lawyer and activist Atuhaire unknown
Nairobi, Kenya | THE INDEPENDENT | Kenyan human rights activist Boniface Mwangi has revealed that Agather Atuhaire, a Ugandan lawyer, journalist, and social justice activist whose whereabouts are unknown, was tortured by Tanzanian security. “The last time I was in the same space with @AAgather was Tuesday morning. We had been …
Read More »Lawyers ask Tanzania’s IGP to produce Uganda’s Atuhaire to Court
KAMPALA, UGANDA | THE INDEPENDENT | Lawyers representing Ugandan Journalist turned lawyer, Agather Atuhaire have asked authorities in Tanzania to her produced in Court. Atuhaire, the winner of the EU Haman Rights Award was together with Kenyan activist Boniface Mwangi were arrested this week in Dar es Salaam to observe …
Read More »Martha Karua deported back to Nairobi after airport standoff in Tanzania
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | THE STAR KENYA | People’s Liberation Party (PLP) leader Martha Karua has announced that she is on her way back to Kenya after almost six hours of detention at Julius Nyerere International Airport in Tanzania. In a statement on her X account on Sunday, Karua …
Read More »Tanzania seeks to challenge Kenya’s avocado export dominance
Tanzania is leveraging trade deals and shorter routes to tap booming emerging markets like Indian to push its fast growing avocado production rates into the global market as Kenya’s ‘green gold’ exports falter amid Red Sea crisis. SPECIAL REPORT | BIRD AGENCY | As geopolitical tensions in the Red Sea …
Read More »Uganda set to start building new sh18.9 billion High Commission Chancery in Tanzania
Officials break ground on new sh18 billion High Commission Chancery in Dodoma’s Government City Dodoma, Tanzania | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda is set to start building a new High Commission Chancery on land donated to it by Tanzania. The project, valued at over TZS 14 billion (sh18.9 billion), is expected to be …
Read More »Tanzania launches first-ever explosives plant
New plant to support mining industry and promote value addition DAR ES SALAAM | Xinhua | Tanzanian Minister for Minerals Anthony Mavunde on Sunday inaugurated the country’s first-ever explosives manufacturing plant, as part of broader efforts to promote value addition and support the growth of industries serving strategic sectors such as …
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