2015-01-18 Tanzania Health

KANW   

East Africa Tries to Stem Albino Magic Murders   
Discovery News
The East African country of Tanzania has reportedly banned witch doctors in an effort to prevent further witchcraft-related murders of albinos. According to a story reported by Agence France-Presse, “The ban follows the kidnapping last month of a four-year-old ...

2015-01-18 Tanzania Science

Daily Mail   

Nasa climate scientists: We said 2014 was the warmest year on record... but we ...   
Daily Mail
The Nasa climate scientists who claimed 2014 set a new record for global warmth last night admitted they were only 38 per cent sure this was true. In a press release on Friday, Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) claimed its analysis of world ...

2015-01-18 Tanzania Sports

The Independent   

English Premier League round-up   
Herald Scotland
Diego Costa took his top-flight goal tally for the season to 17 as a crushing 5-0 win at Swansea saw Chelsea extend their lead to five points. Diego Costa took his top-flight goal tally for the season to 17 as a crushing 5-0 win at Swansea saw Chelsea extend ...

2015-01-18 Tanzania Entertainment

Jobs & Hire   

Justin Bieber's Instagram Selfie Taken Out?! Shirtless Image Violates Decency ...   
Jobs & Hire
(Photo : Getty Images) Recently, Justin Bieber set Instagram on fire after he shared a shirtless image showing his toned upper body. The said picture was Bieber's response to the Photoshop allegations of his Calvin Klein ad photos. However, rumor has it that ...

2015-01-18 Tanzania Technology

Financial Times   

Google leading talks to buy Softcard   
Financial Times
Google is leading talks to acquire Softcard, a troubled mobile payments company that is being eyed by a number of potential suitors, said people familiar with the matter. The search engine giant is interested in buying the small payments group controlled by a ...

2015-01-18 Tanzania Business

Ventures Africa   

TAZARA strike illegal, High Court rules   
IPPmedia
The High Court of Tanzania, Labour Division has declared the strike by the unionized workers of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA) in Tanzania as unlawful. The ruling was made on Friday by Judge I.D. Abdul who also ordered that the Tazara ...

2015-01-18 Tanzania World

IPPmedia   

JK attends inauguration ceremony of Mozambique's President Felipe Nyusi   
IPPmedia
President Kikwete and First Lady Salma Kikwete arrive at Mozambique's Maputo International Airport on Wednesday night for the swearing-in of the country's newly elected President, Filipe Jacinto Nyusi. President Jakaya Kikwete yesterday attended the ...

2015-01-18 Tanzania Africa

Wall Street Journal   

Nigeria vote chaos looms as raids highlight Islamist threat   
Chicago Tribune
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — Tujja Masa won't dare vote in Nigeria's presidential election next month. The 50-year-old farmer is one of the hundreds of thousands who've fled their northeastern villages to escape gun and bomb attacks by Islamist militants.
Thousands back Chad army move   The Nation
Nigerian state weak –Sanusi   Daily Sun
Security, naira decline key issues as elections draw closer   BusinessDay
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Times of India   

Ban Ki-moon slams deadly attack on United Nations camp in Mali   
The Hindu
The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Saturday slammed an attack on a U.N. Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) camp in northern Mali, Xinhua reported. “This incident follows other attacks against U.N. ...

2015-01-18 Tanzania Tanzania

Five injured in bomb explosion in Tanzania's coastal Tanga region   
GlobalPost
DAR ES SALAAM, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- Five people were injured on Thursday night after a hand grenade exploded inside a cinema hall at Amboni on the outskirts of Tanzania's Indian Ocean coastal city of Tanga, police said on Friday. "The grenade exploded ...