African Charter Article# 21: All peoples shall freely dispose of their wealth and natural resources for their exclusive interest, eliminating all forms of foreign economic exploitation.



Summary & Comment: In this opinion piece the author asks whose interests drive the government and politicians in Tanzania and who is at the heart of policy development and formulation when mining corporations enjoy a better relationship with politicians…

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by A Shah



In the industrialized northern countries, we instinctively believe that food aid is a very worthy cause and many do their utmost to genuinely help in this field. Web sites like the hungersite.com allow you to simply click a link and thereby donate food to someone in need in a developing country. However, there is more to it that selecting on a link.



In fact, if priority is not placed on the political root causes of hunger, sites like this may unwittingly… Continue

"Is this really how to save Africa?" asks Tanzanian columnist Ayub Rioba, a day after Bill Clinton has left Africa. "We appreciate generous and humane contributions from people like Bill Clinton," he writes in The Citizen, a respected Tanzanian national daily paper. "But we [Africans] must also show that we are doing something. We cannot sit just like couch potatoes waiting for others to come and give us medicine."



"We have been made permanent recipients of aid, funds, scholarships,… Continue

It was such an embarrassing situation for me when I had to finish my college thesis writing and I was not getting enough time to understand thesis paper writing guidelines, and I wasn’t getting enough thesis writing help.



It was torturing to see others celebrating the success of their college thesis paper leaving me behind. Well, I never lost hope and I once thought of getting my thesis paper written by online thesis writing… Continue

An African woman was almost blinded following her desperate operation to obtain blue eyes.



Shenise Farrell, an African woman obsessed with her appearance was forced to have a restorative sight surgery after enduring a horrendous cosmetic operation to obtain european coloured eyes.



Despite being warned by opticians in the UK not to go ahead with the dangerous vanity procedure, Farrell who read about the £5,000 operation in Central America on the internet - ignored all… Continue