On October 30th, 2025, Pastor Maria Martha Kalembo was locked in the hardest fight of her life. She had a gunshot wound to the head. She was bleeding heavily. She was drifting in and out of consciousness. Yet she...
Retired police officer Joseph Igumba Mwakabana spent decades serving Tanzania. He protected the public. He upheld the law. Neighbours trusted him because he was the kind of man who stepped forward when others hesitated. Yet in the early hours...
In late 2025, the world woke up to images and testimonies from Tanzania that felt unreal. A country long known for political calm had become the site of mass killings, disappearances, and entire communities living in fear. Independent human...
Christina John Richard. Known to her friends and family as Tina., was not supposed to die before her twenty-third birthday.
She was 22 years old, born on November 27th, 2002, and full of dreams that stretched across borders. Her life...
It began with a moment of trust.
On the afternoon of October 30th, 2025, Jocelyn Benard Mafuru was driving home from church with her son. The city of Dar es Salaam was tense after the elections, but for Jocelyn, faith...
When the sun rose over Dar es Salaam on October 29th, 2025, Benjamin Joseph Munisi was still a university student with dreams. By sunset, he was a name on a growing list of the dead.
Benjamin was a third-year student...
When I first visited Johannesburg nearly twenty years ago, I stood near Gandhi Square, watching the city hum with life. The scent of robustness drifted through the air, and the taxis honked in that musical, maddening rhythm only large...
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In 2024, Aminata and I spent some time in Arusha and Tanga. We fell in love with the rhythm of Tanzanian life, the quiet dignity of its people, the beauty of its landscapes,...
In the last days of October 2025, the city of El Fashir in North Darfur erupted into horror. More than 2000 civilians were executed after the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) seized control of the city following an eighteen-month siege....
If you blinked, you might have missed it. On August 20, 2025, Israel raised its flag once again over an embassy in Lusaka, Zambia. On the surface, it looked like a simple ribbon-cutting. In reality, it marked the reopening...
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