Adam Bemma

  • #RightsMedia report: African #BarrickGold ‘s alleged #humanrights violations in #Tanzania

    African Barrick is a unit of Canada’s Barrick Gold mining company. It operates four mines in northwest Tanzania, one being the North Mara gold mine, where alleged human rights violations have been perpetrated against the local population. A high profile court case has shone a spotlight on Barrick’s practices in Africa. Dr. Ayub Rioba is…

    Adam Bemma

  • #RightsMedia report: #Childcare and #education for #Arusha #orphans

    Happiness Wambura founded LOHADA – Loving Hand for the Disadvantaged and Aged – in 1998. She took in children from the streets of Arusha and began running an orphanage and, a few years later, a primary school in the city’s Unga Limited slum area known as Uswahilini (meaning common folk in English). Now she provides…

    Adam Bemma

  • This is Africa: My immigration ordeal #TIA #Tanzania #Corruption in #Africa

    My immigration ordeal started on the morning of Tuesday, June 11, 24 hours after I returned from a 12-hour-long bus ride from Dar-es-Salaam. I woke up at 5 a.m. the day before, Monday morning, feeling physically ill (I won’t go into details, except to say I picked up a bug after eating from a roadside…

    Adam Bemma

  • #RightsMedia report: A #Maasai #woman using #music to #heal and #educate

    Rebeca Kankai is a 37-year-old Maasai woman from a small village in northern Tanzania. She began selling firewood many years ago to support her two young children. In 2008, a fire destroyed her home, killing both kids. Unwilling to give up, Kankai turned to the church and began recording music to tell her story and…

    Adam Bemma

  • #RightsMedia story: Obama and democracy in Tanzania, the next chapter

    ARUSHA, Tanzania — Once a beacon of stability in a region of turmoil, Tanzania is an emerging economy with serious democratic flaws. On the heels of U.S. President Barack Obama’s visit to the East African nation, many Tanzanians are left wondering how American investment will benefit the country. According to the White House, Obama came…

    Adam Bemma

  • #RightsMedia story: Tanzania’s soccer academy for streetkids

    ARUSHA, Tanzania — Emanuel Saakai is a 28-year-old Masai born in Ngorongoro, Tanzania, near the world famous wildlife crater. At age two, his mother moved him to Ngaramtoni, a poor village on the outskirts of Arusha nestled alongside Mount Meru. As a boy he would play soccer in the dusty streets from dawn to dusk.…

    Adam Bemma

  • #RightsMedia doc: #Lengo means #goal in #Swahili

    28-year-old Tanzanian Emanuel Saakai founded Lengo Football Academy in Arusha. Over the last six months Saakai has been training street kids from his home village of Ngaramtoni to play competitive soccer. This community development work is being done without regular funding. The few donations Saakai has received for Lengo has gone straight to feeding and…

    Adam Bemma

  • #RightsMedia doc: #Tanzania ‘s #renegade #opposition MP

    Part 3: Godbless Lema was elected to parliament in Tanzania to represent the constituency of Arusha-Urban. Since his 2010 election, Lema has been arrested and charged several times by police, making him unable to fulfill his mandate. As an elected representative of Chadema (opposition party in Tanzania) Lema has been vocal in denouncing the government,…

    Adam Bemma

  • #RightsMedia doc: #Tanzania ‘s #burgeoning #youth #opposition

    Part 2: 27-year-old Nanyaro Ephata is a Chadema (political opposition party in Tanzania) youth leader based in Arusha. He organizes party youth to rally behind elected members of parliament when they visit the region to speak. Ephata accuses the governing CCM party of being behind the June 15, 2013 bombing at a Chadema rally in…

    Adam Bemma

  • #RightsMedia doc: The #rise of #Tanzania ‘s #opposition #Chadema party

    Part 1: Chadema (Chama cha Demokrasia na Maendeleo – Party for Democracy and Progress) is the political opposition in Tanzania’s parliament. A bombing at a Chadema rally in Arusha on June 15, 2013, the day before a by-election, caused four deaths and now many are beginning to question the stability in this once peaceful, democratic…

    Adam Bemma
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