News stories by Erick Kabendera

DAR ES SALAAM, Aug 24 (IPS) - JamiiForums was Tanzania's largest whistleblowing online platform, with one million visitors each day. But now some 90 percent of staff has been retrenched and the owners are considering shutting down their offices since the June implementation of the country's online content communication law.

ZANZIBAR, Tanzania, Jun 12 (IPS) - Khadija Komboani's nearest well is filled with salt water thanks to the rising sea around Tanzania's Indian Ocean island of Zanzibar.

KIGOMA, Tanzania, Aug 03 (IPS) - At the Kakonko Health Centre, about 250 kilometres from the nearest hospital in Kigoma Region, Western Tanzania, assistant medical officer Abdu Mapinduzi prepares to operate on Joanitha, a young pregnant mother.

Seventy-five-year-old Verdiana Protas is worried that the 20 cattle she bought with her pension money will soon die because the 10-kilometre-long river in her village in northwest Tanzania has been dry for two years now and finding alternative sources of water is getting more and more difficult.