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"Botswana's impressive performance, Tanzania's great strides, Ethiopian reforms leaves the mark" says our online readers.  By Africa 54 Magazine, Accra, Ghana, 31 Dec, 2018 As we end the year 2018 and welcome the incredible 2019, our online magazine readers were asked to simply comment: who is your best African President for the year 2018- a leader who is not common to have one in Africa "UnAfrican" because of his/her incredible performance, leadership, focus, courage and great result.                                              And these are the results for 2018... #1 IAN KHAMA-Botswana: Always cool in leading the small country into tremendous social and economic transfomations including quality infrastructure, access to social services and j...

Fredrik Lerneryd, AFP | Voters gather in order to cast their ballot at a polling station at Terrotire, Kabare, Democratic Republic of Congo, on December 30, 2018. Text by: NEWS WIRES After two years of delays, crackdowns and political turmoil, the Democratic Republic of Congo voted Sunday in presidential elections that will determine the future of Africa's notoriously unstable giant. Facing fears of bloodshed and ...

By Special Correspondent, Montreal, Dar es Salaam TANZANIANS metaphorically have nothing but a broad smile on their collective face this festive Christmas season as their Government under President of the Fifth Phase Government of the United Republic, His Excellency Dr. John Pombe Magufuli, led the nation to mark another milestone; receiving the first Airbus 220/300 Series aircraft to have ever touched down on African soil. The arrival of the new aircraft, is making the total of fifth to arrive in the country during the three years of proven success story of H.E President John Pombe Magufuli. This will then make the United Republic the first proud owner/operator of this special make of Airbus planes on the vast African continent. President Magufuli and other senior leaders aboard the A220-300 Airbus Currently, Air Tanzania is busy with a comprehensive fleet renewal. The country is also set to receive another holiday season present, Airbus 220 - 300 Series ai...

Research article based on Political Communication Theory* By Dr. Darius Mukiza* It is very rare for Tanzanian journalists to analyse and write stories from political advertisements used by winning Presidents after elections. There are many reasons for this, but one of them is the lack of Professional journalists in the field of Political Communication. In this article, I will not concentrate on this scarcity of professional journalists in this field of political communication but the concentration will base on how the achievements of President John Magufuli are reflected in Political Advertisements used by the ruling party Chama Cha Mapinduzi ( CCM) to market him during the 2015 General Elections.       It is better to define political advertisements to make readers understand and consume better the content of this article. Political advertisement can be said to be   “ an ideological activity. It is a system of representation that uses identi...

The grave of Sindiso Magaqa, a nationally known political figure whose death helped bring attention to the political killings, in Ibisi, South Africa. Credit Joao Silva/The New York Times The grave of Sindiso Magaqa, a nationally known political figure whose death helped bring attention to the political killings, in Ibisi, South Africa. Credit Credit Joao Silva/The New York Times By Norimitsu Onishi and Selam Gebrekida JOHANNESBURG — A South African anti-corruption agency has called for a police investigation into the killings of three political figures who had accused their rivals of corruptly diverting money intended for the renovation of a community hall. The public protector’s office said in a report released Thursday that the police should investigate “the root causes” and “motivations” behind the gangland-style killings of the politicians from the governing African National Congress, who had denounced the project as a vehicle to funne...

Villagers in Imlil, Morocco, near the site where the bodies of two Scandinavian tourists visiting the Atlas Mountains were found. Credit Fadel Senna/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images COPENHAGEN — The authorities in Morocco said on Thursday that three more suspects had been arrested in the killings of two Scandinavian tourists in the Atlas Mountains, in what Danish officials suggested was an act of terror linked to the Islamic State. The Central Office of Judicial Research in Morocco said in a statement that the three suspects had been detained in Marrakesh. Another suspect arrested on Tuesday was thought to have extremist ties, Moroccan prosecutors told local news outlets without providing further details. The names of those arrested were not immediately released. The authorities said that the bodies of the victims, Louisa Vesterager Jespersen, 24, of Denmark and Maren Ueland, 28, of Norway, were found on Monday by other tourists in an isolated ...

11 Décembre, 2018 Par des correspondants spéciaux, KAMPALA ET DAR ES SALAAM Steve Job (1955-2011), co-fondateur de Apple Inc et reconnu comme l'un des pionniers de la révolution des micro-ordinateurs, a déclaré: «L'innovation fait la distinction entre un leader et un suiveur», ajoutant que; “Soyez un critère de qualité. Certaines personnes ne sont pas habituées à un environnement dans lequel l'excellence est attendue. " Ces deux citations en disent long et résonnent avec les décisions sans faille prises par le gouvernement de Tanzanie sous le président John Magufuli pour améliorer le bien-être social de la population et écraser des individus sans scrupules qui survivaient jusqu'ici en exploitant les pauvres. Dr Magufuli, chimiste de profession, a surpris beaucoup de monde en annonçant que le gouvernement, par le biais de la Banque de développement agricole de Tanzanie (TADB), et les Forces de défense des peuples de Tanzanie (TPDF) achè...