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The drone pilot whose maps are saving lives in Zanzibar

15th January 201914th January 2019 Josie McFarlane 456 Views 0 Comments black, community, Drone, maps, Pilot, Tanzania, technology, Zanzibar

A lack of accurate maps is a big problem in parts of Africa: for disaster relief agencies, local authorities and

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Tanzania’s Diamond Platnumz banned from performing

30th December 201819th December 2018 Josie McFarlane 636 Views 0 Comments banned, black, Diamond Platnumz, Entertainment, music, performance, show, singer, Tanzania

Top African pop star Diamond Platnumz has been barred from performing in Tanzania after he played a song which the

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Tanzania’s Magufuli deploys military amid cashew nut crisis

14th November 201813th November 2018 Josie McFarlane 543 Views 0 Comments #Farmers, Army, cashew nuts, community, crisis, Government row, military actions, Prices, Tanzania

Tanzanian authorities have deployed the military to buy cashew nuts from farmers to solve a row over prices. President John

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Tanzania authorities ban ‘immoral’ songs

14th November 201812th November 2018 Josie McFarlane 591 Views 0 Comments artist, Ban, Basata, christian, community, Diamond Platnumz, music, Mwanza, Raymond Shabaan Mwakyusa, Rayvanny, song, Tanzania

Tanzania’s arts regulatory council, Basata, has banned a brand new hit song – Mwanza – by household musicians Raymond Shabaan

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Church turns energy supplier as millions still left without power

26th October 2018 Josie McFarlane 788 Views 0 Comments charity, church, energy supplier, help, solar panels, Tanzania, Tearfund

An Anglican diocese in Tanzania is helping its congregation get access to clean energy after predictions showed they could have

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The African invention school inspired by bike parts

22nd August 201823rd August 2018 Josie McFarlane 732 Views 0 Comments agriculture, avocados, Bernard Kiwia, community, Fert-Cart, Frank Mollel, funding, Income, inventing, invention, inventor’s workshop, Issa Kanguni, Jesse Oljange', local innovators, local people, machines, Magreth Omary, mentoring, repair, rural innovation, soap, soap business, Tanzania, Tanzanians, Techno-Thinkers Consortium, technologies, technology, Twende, umbrella organisation, washing machine, wheelbarrow, windmill, women

Bernard Kiwia can make almost anything from a bicycle.He first became known for inventing a mobile phone charger operated by,

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