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• Tanzania

  Gay Tanzanians living in fear as governor launches witch-hunt

  1 November, by JACKMAN Josh

  Gay people in Tanzania are terrified for their safety following Dar es Salaam governor Paul Makonda’s creation of a team to hunt them down.
  Experts and activists living in the city—the country’s former capital, whose governor announced on Wednesday that he wanted to turn into “a non-gay (...)

• Tanzania

  ’No need for birth control’: Tanzanian president’s views cause outrage

  11 September, by RATCLIFFE Rebecca

  John Magufuli says people who use contraceptives are lazy, and outsiders who promote birth control are giving bad advice
  Women’s rights campaigners have expressed outrage after the Tanzanian president said there is no need for birth control.
  The president, John Magufuli, told a rally in Meatu, (...)

• Tanzania

  Sustainable local development and traditions: the Parakuiyo Maasai challenge

  1 March 2010, by HITCHMAN Judith

  International Newsletter on Sustainable Local Development Message from the Editorial Team
  In this number Judith Hitchman shares the challenges facing the Maasai in Tanzania. Like most other indigenous peoples of our planet, « modernity » as imposed by the dominant form of globalisation, creates (...)