Diabetes has been responsible for at least $966 billion in health expenditure in 2021 which is 9% of the global total spent on healthcare. There is a need for global action to promote the importance of taking coordinated and concerted actions to confront diabetes as a critical global health issue.
Slavery walks with shoulder high in its multiple faces. While people are rarely put in chains in caravans or whipped in big sugar cane plantations, on a global scale many people are in enslaving entanglements in their home countries and abroad, being forced into dangerous things they would not freely choose to do.
According to UNESCO, about 58 tsunamis have hit the world with devastating effects but more are still expected in the future as the sea level rises due to climate change. Tanzanian coastline is not spared from the possibility of higher tidal waves.
Globally, statistics show that 1.3 billion people still live in multidimensional poverty with almost half of them being children and youth. In Tanzania, numerous poverty reduction strategies seek to increase the quality of life such as access to education, clean water, sanitation, and health services.
With the world celebrating the International Day of the Girl Child on Tuesday 11 October, it is an opportunity to review the progress made so far both in policies and in praxis.
Reducing food waste should be among the critical solutions to the food insecurity challenges. When we implement holistic solutions for greater resilience to food insecurity, food waste management should be among the core agendas.
While we still boast of the minimized possibilities of tribal or ethnic wars because of the foundation Mwalimu Nyerere laid, it is high time we restore in real life the fame of a peaceful country Tanzania has had for decades as we join the world to mark the International day of Non-violence.
Literacy in a widened understanding goes beyond the conventional, i.e. ‘reading and writing’ as the global dream incorporates the impartation of skills which help to nurture talents and also to foster measurable and functional participation in society.
Dr Sacha Hepburn who is a historian of modern Africa at Birkbeck, University of London speaks at length, among other things, about the effects of racialized constructions of African childhood
on the occasion of the International Day of the African Child. She specialises in histories of gender, age, work, and the environment, and she is the author of Home Economics: Domestic Service and Gender in Urban Southern Africa (2022) and a number of published essays.
Ambassador Jestas Abouk Nyamanga availed his time to discuss the various educational opportunities that the Belgian Government and the European Union avail for Tanzanians who are interested and meet the requirements as we bring them forth.