A community reporting project with Tanzanian high school students, and aspiring journalists, Loomoni Morwo, 19, Agnes Daniel, 18, for FRW. Jeremiah Chuma stares down into a chasm. He is standing only a stone’s throw from his family home in Ngarash,…
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Tanzania: Cattle trails become dangerous erosion ‘super-highways’
Tagged with: adam bemma, Agnes Daniel, Arusha, climate change, community journalism, community reporting, community reporting project, Ellie Turner, Geography teacher, Indigenous Education Fund of Tanzania, Loomoni Morwo, media development, Monduli, Orkeeswa Secondary School, soil erosion, tanzania
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Tanzanian journalist benefits from Canadian capacity building efforts
ARUSHA, Tanzania – The radio speaker cackles with static as Rotlinde Achimpota turns the dial, before stopping at 93 FM ̶ Mambo Jambo Radio, affectionately known to its listeners as MJ. The voice of a young broadcaster is heard reporting…
Tagged with: #RightsMedia, agricultural radio, Arusha, Beep for Weather, capacity building, farm radio international, farm radio program, human rights, ICT4d, investigative journalism, Journalists for Human Rights, kilimo na jamii, Mambo Jambo Radio, MJ radio, Rotlinde Achimpota, tanzania, Young Farmers
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Saving Tanzania’s Underground Hip Hop Scene
ARUSHA, Tanzania, Jun 18 2014 (IPS) – Inside a dark, cramped, music studio on Arusha’s hillside slum of Kijenge Juu, a thumping hip hop beat rattles the window-less room. A soft-spoken 26-year-old who goes by the name Raf MC steps up…
Tagged with: African hip hop, Arusha, development, Kijenge, KINGS, music, Ngalimi, S.U.A., Saving Underground Artists, Sekei, slums, tanzania, Tanzania music, underground hip hop
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Tanzania: The Crop Doctor is in the Market
Dark clouds fill the sky, blocking the view of snow-capped Mount Kilimanjaro. Rain pours down on the bustling market in Himo town, about 100 kilometres east of Arusha. Farmers come from all over northern Tanzania to visit the bi-weekly “plant…
Tagged with: access to markets, Africa, agriculture, Arusha, CABI, Crop doctors, crop rotation, Farm News, farming, Himo market, Irish Aid, kenya, markets, plant doctors, planting, Plantwise, prescription, tanzania
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Media Literacy Talks for Tanzania’s Youth
I’m on the back of a boda-boda motorcycle taxi, heading uphill, when my driver, Nuru, points out the drive-way leading to the house of Tanzania’s former prime minister and current presidential hopeful, Edward Lowassa. Not even five seconds after we…
Tagged with: Africa, arts & culture, Arusha, corruption, girls school, journalism, maasai, Mambo Jambo Radio, media development, media literacy, media4dev, MWEDO, Orkeeswa school, politics, poverty, tanzania, TGFT, walking tour, youth
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Tanzania: Intercropping and companion planting get results
Just three kilometres south of Arusha’s dusty, congested streets, the village of Engo Sengiu sits at the end of a long, bumpy dirt road, surrounded by fertile farmland. The village’s rutted roads are bordered everywhere by lush, green vegetation invigorated…
Tagged with: Africa, agriculture, Arusha, companion planting, farming families, Food Water Shelter, health, intercropping, John Melau-Laizer, kesho leo, Lucy Bradley, mothers, nutrition, orphans, permaculture, sustainability, tanzania
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Tanzania’s Farming Cooperatives Struggle to Bear Fruit
ARUSHA, Tanzania, Apr 4 2014 (IPS) – John Daffi climbs to the top of a hill overlooking a scenic Rift Valley wall and the Ngorongoro forest, where wildlife migrates between the world famous Ngorongoro crater and Tanzania’s Lake Manyara. Daffi,…
Tagged with: agriculture, Amon Mattee, Antony Ellman, Arusha, cooperatives, East Africa, farming co-ops, IPS, John Daffi, Julius Nyerere, Karatu, Mwalimu Nyerere, Operation Vijijini, Sokoine University of Agriculture, tanzania, Ujamaa
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Media Development Training by VIKES Finland and MISA Tanzania
VIKES is a Finnish acronym which stands for the Finnish Foundation for Media, Communication and Development. This organization provides training to journalists and educators working in the media field. Along with the Media Institute of Southern Africa’s Tanzania branch, or…
Tagged with: Arusha, Arusha Journalists Investigating Online, capacity building, Clara Moita, data journalism, Finland, gender parity, investigative journalism, JHR, Mambo Jambo Radio, media development, MISA, MJ FM, online journalism, Peik Johansson, Radio 5, Rotlinde Achimpota, tanzania, University of Dar es Salaam Computing Centre, VIKES, web research, women journalists in Tanzania
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