PRESS SUMMARIES 9-11 August 2014
National news
Malaria infections worsen dengue attacks- research
Malaria infection among dengue fever patients complicated their treatment and occasioned several death occurrences, initial reports by the National Institute of Medical Research (NIMR) have shown. The announcement comes after the institute finally released findings of research work conducted across the three districts of Dar es Salaam (Ilala, Kinondoni and Temeke) which it has also submitted to the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare. Previously, the institute had failed to release the research results for lack of laboratory reagents for malaria parasite identification. In an interview with this paper over the weekend, NIMR Chief Research Scientist, Dr Leonard Mboera said they have discovered that a considerable number of dengue fever patients also suffered from malaria. He said, unwittingly, doctors concentrated on treating the feared dengue fever and placed less emphasis on malaria and as such the patients remained susceptible to the malaria. He explained that they now recommend that, whenever there is an outbreak of the disease (dengue fever) both treatments be administered concurrently to speed up treatment period and subsequently reduce the number of deaths. (The Guardian on Monday, et al)
Ebola threat: KIA issues red alert
WHO declares Ebola epidemic a global emergency
Health experts in northern Tanzania are keeping a tight watch around the Kilimanjaro International Airport (KIA) following red alerts of an eminent spread of the Ebola virus that is taking toll on West Africa. The Kilimanjaro Airport Development Company (KADCO) director of operations and technical services, Christopher Mkoma says that currently health officials have increased their monitoring undertakings and are maintaining tight restrictions around the airfield. Mr. Mkoma told the media that health personnel are maintaining a tight surveillance at KIA, the second largest airport in the country, monitoring developments of a new outbreak of the deadly Ebola in Western Africa. Though not a single Ebola case has so far been reported in Tanzania, experts have strongly warned people around the vast periphery from interacting with anybody reportedly being sick on the borders. The Ministry of Health and Social Welfare has deployed medics and installed a temporary clinic at KIA as a precaution and rapid test in case of Ebola-infected entrants. The World Health Organization on Friday, declared the killer Ebola epidemic ravaging parts of West Africa an international health emergency and appealed for global aid to help affiliated countries. (The Guardian, The Citizen, Mwananchi, Habari Leo et al- Sunday)
Tanzania unemployment threatening development
Unemployment has been re-affirmed as one of the recently threatening social and economic despair facing youths in the country. According to the International Labour Organization (ILO) statistics recently availed on Sunday around 66 per cent of male and female aged 15-24 are engaged in agriculture, cultivating on small scale. The smaller proportions of them are unskilled, while others are skilled manual with few working as domestic servants or hawkers. The ILO report cited the trend as attributed to steady population growth and limited opportunities to access quality education. The ILO Project Coordinator Mkuku Louis said his organization launched an advocacy project dubbed 'Kazi nje nje' (open vacancies) a five year educative project aimed at inculcating the experience of entrepreneurship among the youths. The project expects to come to an end this year with an achievement of ensuring entrepreneurship education is included in the national curriculum. He further said that unemployment issue can be solved through the introduction of entrepreneurship skills to the majority of population that teaches them to be independent; he said adding that the project was also being implemented in Uganda and Kenya but with different activities. According to Tanzania Demographic and Health Survey of 2010, statistics of 2010, only 28% of young women and 37 per cent of young men aged between 15-24 have attended secondary school or higher education, and 78% of young women and 83% of young men age 15-24 were literate. He said ILO's first task was to promote entrepreneurship culture, in which they aimed at encouraging youth to understand self employment, where they can develop small enterprise business. (Tanzania Today, The Guardian, News Now et al-Sunday)
Environmentalists call for forest preservation using beekeeping
Sections of environmentalist in the country have called for the intensification of beekeeping to farmers in order to preserve forests apart from the usual commercial and health benefits. The advice was given and mid this week by the Coordinator of Grassroots Oriented Development (TAGRODE) Dickson Mwalubandu at Isimani Ward in Iringa Region where the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has intensely supported beekeeping activities for a long period. Through TAGRODE an Iringa Region based nongovernmental organization, dedicated on environmental conservation country wide, UNDP offered 200 modern bee hives Sh 150 million to beekeeping farmers in ten villages in Iringa and train 300 members in 30 organized groups from each village. (The Guardian et al-Saturday)
Pastoralists against government directives on animal identification
Pastoralist community in Bagamoyo district is up in arm against the government's proposed animal identification and traceability programme aiming to promote the tagging of cattle by giving them unique identification for modern day management of stock. Pastoralists concerns was raised on the ground that TANLIT tax system will be designed to target the entire cattle herds as opposed to the sold ones. They also reiterated that the information gathered in the process could be used to force cattle to be treated as economic assets, which is seen as a violation of pastoralist rights. The Tanzania Livestock Identification and Traceability System (TANLITS) initiative is sponsored by the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and coordinated by the Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries. According to the government, identification project that was recently launched in Mlandizi, Coastal region aims also at improving the export potential of livestock production and an aid in confronting cattle theft and rustling in the country. Aligned to UNDAP results, FAO provided the technical support required to develop and operationalize TANLITS in the country through its Technical Cooperation Programme (TCP). (The Guardian et al- Saturday)
International news
Israel, Palestinians agree to new 72 hour Gaza ceasefire-officials
An agreement on a new Egypt-proposed 72-hour Gaza ceasefire was reached on Sunday, Reuters reported, citing Israeli and Palestinian officials. Izzat al-Reshiq, a Hamas negotiator in Cairo, told Reuters that Palestinian factions will formally accept the new ceasefire in Gaza, following Israel's agreement to resume talks without pre-conditions. He said that in light of Israel's acceptance of the truce and their return without pre-conditions, they will inform their Egyptian brothers of their positive response. Israeli officials told Reuters that Israel accepted the new ceasefire and will send negotiators to Cairo on Monday if the truce holds. Cairo called on both Israel and the Palestinians to accept the new ceasefire starting at 21:00 GMT on Sunday, in order to allow peace talks to resume, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry said in a statement few hours earlier. (World media)
Somalia donors must act now to avoid famine 'catastrophe'- UN
War-ravaged Somalia is hurtling towards a second famine in three years that could be prevented if donors increased funding, Philippe Lazzarini, United Nations' Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia said on Sunday. Lazzarini said rapidly rising malnutrition and food shortages across the country resemble the warning signs which preceded the 2011 famine in which about 260,000 people died. He told Reuters that only years after the famine where basically they said 'never again', a crisis is unfolding in front of them. He added that it would just be morally difficult to justify and to accept that a new crisis of this scope could unfold. Donors have pledged billions of dollars to rebuild Somalia after more than two decades of strife, but little progress has been made, hindered by continued fighting despite the presence of a 22,000-strong African Union Peacekeeping Force. With high-profile conflicts raging across the globe such as the wars in South Sudan, Syria and Ukraine, aid budgets have been stretched. The UN has raised only about a third of the $933 million required for Somalia in 2014. (World Media)
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