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Kijo-Bisimba was appointed as the executive director of Legal and Human Rights Center (LHRC) in 1995. [3] She dealt with Female genital mutilation. FGM was made illegal in Tanzania in 1998 but twenty years after this it was estimated that 10% of girls still suffer this treatment. [4] in 2001 she earned a (2008) "Woman of Courage" award from the ...
Samia Suluhu Hassan ( / sɑːmiɑː / / suluhu / / hɑːssɑːn / // ⓘ, SAH-mee-ah Soo-LOO-hoo HA-San; born 27 January 1960) is a Tanzanian politician who has served as president of Tanzania since 19 March 2021. She is the first woman to serve in the position. She previously served as vice-president of Tanzania from 2015 to 2021, from which ...
Tanzania is a source, transit, and destination country for men, women, and children subjected to trafficking, specifically under conditions of forced labor and forced prostitution. The incidence of internal trafficking is higher than that of transnational trafficking, largely from rural to urban areas, affecting primarily children for their ...
Ujamaa ( lit. 'fraternity' in Swahili) was a socialist ideology that formed the basis of Julius Nyerere 's social and economic development policies in Tanzania after it gained independence from Britain in 1961. [1] More broadly, ujamaa may mean "cooperative economics", in the sense of "local people cooperating with each other to provide for the ...
Tanganyika Broadcasting Corporation (TBC) - 1 July 1956. Established by an Ordinance (Chapter 370 of the Laws Annual Supplement 1956) Objective: to provide public service broadcasting as a means of information, education and entertainment with the national interest of Tanganyika. The government left programming to free judgment of the corporation.
Elections in Tanzania occur on both the local and national levels. The local government holds elections for street or village chair people. General elections at the national level elect the President and the members of the National Assembly. The president is elected for a five-year term. [1]
The CIA World Factbook assessed internet penetration in 2016 at 13%. [4] By mid-2017, the TCRA's figures were that 40% of Tanzania's 57 million population had internet access, due mainly to an increase in smartphone access. In contrast, there were 1.2 million fixed wireless connections and 629,474 fixed wired ones.
Kilwa Kisiwani is the largest of the nine hamlets in the town of Kilwa Masoko and is also the least populated hamlet in the township with fewer than 1,000 residents. At its peak in the Middle Ages, Kilwa had over 10,000 inhabitants. Since 1981, the entire island of Kilwa Kisiwani has been designated by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site along with ...