African People’s Commission of Inquiry on the Tanzania Massacre
We, the African People, are forming the African People’s Commission of Inquiry (APCI) on the Tanzania Massacre because the dead are being buried twice. First, they were buried under live bullets, tear gas and state terror after the 29 October election. Then they were buried again under silence, denial and a state-led commission that dares to ask whether the youth...
Why the Kalando Mine Victims Must Receive Justice
The Day the Earth Swallowed Futures What happened in Kalando was not a tragedy of nature. It was a failure of duty. Dozens of miners died when a makeshift bridge at the copper and cobalt site collapsed under a panicked crowd after soldiers allegedly fired shots and terrified artisanal miners stampeded across a structure that had already been weakened by...
Is South Africa’s Sovereignty Slipping Away?
The story does not begin with a border dispute, a separatist march or a government crisis. It begins with a private jet descending quietly over the hills of the Eastern Cape, a stretch of South Africa so neglected that many villages still beg for working clinics and reliable roads. On that day, the red dirt runway had been freshly...
The Dangerous Faith Fault Lines That Can Emerge in Tanzania
What is unfolding in Tanzania in the aftermath of the post election massacre is not just a struggle between citizens and the state. It can become a deeper moral fracture between the country’s two largest religious communities. In the last few days, the Catholic Church and the Islamic leadership have issued two divergent responses to the massacre, and their...
Yugoslavia’s Warning for Tanzania: Do This or Split Into Two
In 1991, the world watched in shock as Yugoslavia began to fracture into six new nations: Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia. A country that had once been a symbol of unity collapsed under the weight of mistrust, political manipulation and state violence. What happened in the Balkans more than 30 years ago is not just...
The Murder of Samwel Eusebio Mgimwa the Gospel Musician
Samwel was on his way to becoming one of the top gospel musicians in Africa and the world. That is how devoted and focused he was. His life revolved around faith, music, and family. Every note he sang carried light. Every lyric he wrote reflected conviction. He believed that music could lift people from despair and remind them of...
She Stepped Out to Save Her Grandchild and Never Returned
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 held on. Good Samaritans had lifted her from the roadside, carried her into a small neighbourhood clinic, and begged for help....
The Life and Death of Retired Officer Joseph Mwakabana
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 of November 3rd, 2025, it was uniformed officers like the ones he once served beside who ended his life on...
Tanzania Stood With Africa. Now Africa Must Stand With Tanzania.
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 rights groups estimate that more than a thousand people have been killed since the disputed October 29 election, with some...
Tina the Trucker: The Life and Death of Christina John Richard
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 ended on October 30th, 2025, when a Tanzanian police officer shot her in the head while she was on a...
