One year in: How Facebook’s Internet.org Free Basic Services are bringing people online

• 27 July 2015
• By @nkupamah.com

 

Facebook is celebrating the one-year anniversary of the introduction of the Internet.org app by hosting a Developer Day at iHub in Nairobi, Kenya on Monday, 27 July

*Internet.org brings new users onto mobile networks on average over 50% faster after launching free basic services

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GEN, Entrepreneurs’ Organization, Elumelu Foundation Join Forces to Spark Global Entrepreneurship

• 28 July 2015
• By @nkupamah.com

President Barack Obama with co-founders of the Global SPARK coalition, Jonathan Ortmans, CEO of the Global Entrepreneurship Network; Tony O. Elumelu, CON, Founder of the Tony Elumelu Foundation; and Sriram Bharatam, Chairman, Africa Growth Initiative, (EO); during the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Nairobi, Kenya, over the weekend.

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Advanced technology increasingly shaping Africa’s financial sector

• 28 July 2015
• By @nkupamah.com

 

Sumesh Rahavendra, Vice President of Sales for DHL Express Sub Saharan Africa.

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I am counting my blessings!

I’ve never been without a place to live, food to eat, shoes to cover my feet, or clothes to wear; God has given me a blessed life and I am forever grateful! I only received a taste of born and live in a poor country where poverty is a way of living to others, but personally I have never been poor! I might struggled or been struggling financially with all the knowledge that in a blink of an eye that could be me but still I am not a poor person! I am counting my blessings!

In my life I have a lot of emotional struggles that I’ve been dealing with trying to overcome them in a daily basis but that hasn’t stop me from counting my blessings, because I realize that there are people who are poor struggle every day with no food, or place to live! I just saw the video clip from ITV news room where a man named Chacha who lives under the ground around Sam Nujoma road, Dar es alaam for 4 years now because he doesn’t have a place to live. Mr. Chacha is well educated and smart but things happen in life and he found himself with no place to live! I am counting my blessings!

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Whitney Houston's Daughter Bobbi Kristina Dead at 22 age

Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown's daughter Bobbi Kristina has died at the age of 22.

She passed away outside Atlanta in the hospice care facility where she's been since June 24 ... when her family decided to take her off all meds. As we first reported, a specialist had told them there was no chance of recovery. 

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Obama and African leaders to consider sanctions in South Sudan's civil war

US president and top officials from Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia, and Sudan to consider ‘plan B’ to address conflict, including possible weapons embargo

Barack Obama listens to his Kenyan counterpart, Uhuru Kenyatta, during a joint press conference. Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images

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Barack Obama will discuss with African leaders on Monday a “plan B” for South Sudan that could include sanctions or other penalties if the country’s warring parties do not forge a peace deal by mid-August, a US official said.

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Turkey's peace with Kurds splinters as car bomb kills soldiers

Kurdish rebels blamed for attack on military police vehicle carrying several officers, as PKK says ceasefire has ‘lost all meaning’ after Turkish air strikes

A Turkish soldier checks cars at a checkpoint in Diyarbakir after the bombing. Photograph: Ilyas Akengin/AFP/Getty Images

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BEHIND THE VEIL- Farouque Abdela Launches Long anticipated book at Zanzibar International Film Festival 2015

Friday, July 24, 2015

Farouque Abdela 

In Summary

Farouque was born in Zanzibar to a family of Comoros origin, but left at the tender age of fourteen, two years after the revolution. In London he studied fashion and has a long and illustrious career in the fashion world.

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The award wait that took seven years

Friday, July 24, 2015

Award winner : Diamond and his Manager Babu Tale immediately after he had received the gong on Saturday night. 

In Summary

The win makes Diamond the first Tanzanian artiste to win at the MTV awards after several attempts by AY, Shaa Nakaaya and Prof Jay

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Millen finally receives BET award

Friday, July 24, 2015

Millen Magese 

In Summary

Her efforts in the fight against endometriosis have received worldwide recognition and she was the first recipient of the first BET Global Good Award. Millen Magesse who was absent at the awards ceremony only received her award this week.

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It’s films, music and dance at Zanzibar International film Festival 2015

Friday, July 24, 2015

Yamoto Band 

In Summary

APart from the main stream activity business people also take the opportunity to make some money

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One-day baby stolen in hospital

Saturday, July 25, 2015

Up to 300,000 Spanish babies were stolen from their parents and sold for adoption over a period of five decades, a BBC investigation reveals.  The children were trafficked by a secret network of doctors and nurses in a widespread practice that began during General Franco’s  Spanish dictatorship and continued until the early Nineties.  Hundreds of families who had babies taken from Spanish hospitals are now battling for an official government investigation into the scandal.  

In Summary

She said that around 8.00 am a strange woman went direct to her bed and asked her name. Then she told her that she was needed by a nurse at ward number eight

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CUF’s Hamad decamps to ADC

Friday, July 24, 2015

Outgoing Wawi MP Hamad Rashid Mohamed (right) receives new Alliance for Democratic Change (ACD) membership card from ADC Chairman Said Miraji Abdullah in Dar es Salaam yesterday. PHOTO|ANTHONY SIAME 

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AU troops capture Shebab stronghold

Friday, July 24, 2015

Somali government troops backed by African Union forces on Wednesday captured the Shebab stronghold of Bardhere, one of the last key bases of the Al-Qaeda-affiliated Islamists. photo | file 

In Summary

The loss of Bardhere will be a blow to the Shebab, as control over territory helps it find recruits and source revenue through taxes

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EDITORIAL: Good time to invest in women’s football

Saturday, July 25, 2015

 

By The Citizen

The head coach of the national Under-20 women’s soccer team reckons they have failed to shine in the women’s African championship for one simple reason--lack of international exposure. According to Rogasian Kaijage, Team Tanzanite is comprised of young players who need plenty of friendly matches and exposure if they are to improve their skills. But his training schedule is not taken seriously.

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JK wins African Achievers Award

Saturday, July 25, 2015

Jakaya Kikwete 

In Summary

The awards-giving ceremony will take place today in Johannesburg.

By The Citizen Reporter

Dar es Salaam. President Jakaya Kikwete has won this year’s African Achievers Award.

According to a statement by the Directorate of Presidential Communications, the awards committee picked him from a list of 1,202 nominees.

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Rare ‘planes’ on Tanzania roads

Saturday, July 25, 2015

A traveller inside the new Shabiby Luxury coach which operates between Dodoma and Dar es Salaam.  The cabin accessories in the bus are even much better than the average budget airlines. PHOTO | EMMANUEL HERMAN 

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Did you know there are ‘planes’ cruising Tanzania roads these days? If you’re unaware, never mind. This reporter will give you some insights about them, so read on...

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Mrema defends old age in polls contests

Friday, July 24, 2015

The Outgoing legislator for Vunjo constituency on Tanzania Labour Party (TLP) ticket, Mr Augustino Mrema 

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Mr Mrema queried why his political rivals were criticising him over his advanced age while there were many other aged Tanzanian politicians still seeking parliamentary seats

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Man stabs commutters, gets lynched by mob

One of the victims of the stabbing waits for treatment at the Muhimbili National Hospital in Dar es Salaam yesterday. PHOTO| CORRESPONDENT 

In Summary

The Kinondoni regional police commander, Mr Camillius Wambura, confirmed the incident but decried mob justice, saying that it was a crime for people to take the law into their own hands.

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Technical hitches hold back BVR registration

Saturday, July 25, 2015

Mr Eleutery Bangala, a resident of Gongo la Mboto, Dar es Salaam, proudly displays his voter’s card after it was issued to him yesterday. Many Dar es Salaam residents continued to spend hours in queues on the second day of the registration of voters in the region. PHOTO| VENANCE NESTORY 

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Ubungo Member of Parliament John Mnyika urged the electoral body to get more BVR kits if it is to register all 2.9 million potential voters in the commercial city

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Obama begins landmark Kenya visit as president

US President Barack Obama greets his half-sister Auma Obama alongside Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta upon his arrival at Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi yesterday.  Obama arrived in Kenya yesterday, his first visit to the country of his father’s birth since his election as president.  PHOTO | AFP 

In Summary

Air Force One touched down at Nairobi’s international airport at 8.02pm, marking the start of a weekend visit during which the president will address an entrepreneurship summit and hold talks on trade and investment, security and counter-terrorism, and democracy and human rights.

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