2015-01-25 Tanzania Health

LOCAL PERSONALITIES WEIGH IN   
The Swazi Observer
The government recently announced that it was now official that people living with albinism are now to be classified under citizens of this country with disabilities. There are mixed feelings about this from many people, therefore SCENE posed a question to ...

2015-01-25 Tanzania Science

9NEWS.com   

Giant space rock to pass Earth Jan. 26-27   
Asheboro Courier Tribune
Early next week, a large asteroid named 2004 BL86 will fly past the Earth. There's no danger of a collision, but NASA radars will be monitoring the mountain-sized space rock as it passes by 745,000 miles away. At one-third of a mile across, the size has been ...

2015-01-25 Tanzania Sports

Sportal.com.au   

Bouchard moves into quarterfinals at Australian Open   
San Francisco Chronicle
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Eugenie Bouchard returned to the Australian Open quarterfinals with a win that was far from routine on Sunday. The 20-year-old Canadian, who reached the semifinals or better at the first three Grand Slam tournaments last ...

2015-01-25 Tanzania Entertainment

CNNMoney   

#HeForShe campaign goes corporate   
CNNMoney
The gender equality campaign HeForShe, which gained widespread attention in September, is taking on a corporate hue. The United Nations-backed campaign went viral last year on Twitter (TWTR, Tech30) after actress Emma Watson made an impassioned ...

2015-01-25 Tanzania Technology

Forbes   

Eric Schmidt's Quite Right The Internet Will Disappear; All Technologies Do As ...   
Forbes
Google's Chairman, Eric Schmidt, rather caused a few heads to explode at the World Economic Forum at Davos when he said that the internet will disappear. No, don't worry, he's not arguing that our vital supply of cat pictures is about to disappear. Rather ...

2015-01-25 Tanzania Business

Farmers to gain from banana, potatoes drive   
Daily News
A PROGRAMME aiming to assist banana and sweet potato growers in Tanzania, Uganda and Ethiopia in securing reliable markets was launched here, targeting to benefit nearly 100,000 families in Tanzania alone. The four-year initiative dubbed 'SeFaMaCo ...

2015-01-25 Tanzania World

Belfast Telegraph   

Japan hostage father still hopeful   
Belfast Telegraph
The father of the Japanese hostage purportedly killed by Islamic State (IS) militants says he is hoping deep in his heart that the news is not true. Also in this Section. No bombs found on 'threat' planes · Two US planes hit by bomb threat · World leaders head to ...

2015-01-25 Tanzania Africa

ABC Online   

Boko Haram releases about 190 people after attack in north-east   
ABC Online
Nigerian Sunni jihadist group Boko Haram has released about 190 captives, who returned to their community in the north-east state of Yobe between Friday and Saturday, while other people are still being held, local and state officials say. "The people will be ...

2015-01-25 Tanzania Tanzania

The Nation   

Tanzanian minister quits over corruption scandal   
The Nation
DAR ES SALAAM : Tanzania's energy minster quit Saturday becoming the third top government figure pushed out of office over a multi-million-dollar energy corruption scandal, although he insisted he was “not a thief. ” Energy and Minerals Minister Sospeter ...