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Farewell comandante Hugo Chavez!
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- Published on Friday, 08 March 2013 10:59
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THE leftwing global movement is on mourning this week, joining the people of Venezuela in grieving the departure of their heroic leader, President Hugo Chavez who lost his battle with cancer this week and is being laid to rest in his country’s capital, Caracas, today.
The Mali episode: Whither Africa’s genuine independence?
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- Published on Friday, 22 February 2013 02:59
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THE scenario of one of Africa’s former colonial powers deploying its military might over an African country to stem off the advance of an armed group presumed to be backed by a terrorist group had alarmed if not dismayed many African people who wish for the genuine independence of the continent as aspired by Africa’s founding fathers.
At last National IDs are here: Thumbs up for NIDA!
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- Published on Friday, 15 February 2013 02:55
- Written by MAKWAIA WA KUHENGA
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THIS has certainly been a memorable week. This country is now moving towards handing national identification documents to all its citizens (IDs).
MPs: Where is the line between party loyalties, truth and conscience?
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- Published on Friday, 08 February 2013 01:16
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I AM sure that all those who are following debates in our parliament must be beside themselves with considerable amusement and, at times, big disappointment.
What’s the wider picture of the Mtwara crisis?
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- Published on Friday, 01 February 2013 01:25
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FOR those who have followed the evolution of this country in so far as its famed ‘peace and stability’ is concerned must now be noting a significant erosion of this prize in the intervening period.
Obama’s accession to second term: Is an American President his own man?
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- Published on Friday, 25 January 2013 02:40
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MR Barrack Hussein Obama has formerly been sworn in as President of the United States for the second and last term.
What are your views on new constitution? Here are mine…
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- Published on Friday, 18 January 2013 03:09
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Dear Justice Warioba,
Hope you will not have a hang-up in the manner I have chosen to address you! But I have elected to address you by one of your many hats you have donned before as you are also a lawyer by training and had risen to the position of a whole judge before ascending to the position of Prime Minister of this country in the past.
The Mtwara tug-of-war over gas: We’re reaping what we sow!
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- Published on Friday, 11 January 2013 02:46
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SUDDENLY the ugly face of balkanisation has appeared in this country erstwhile the showpiece of a country in national unity in diversity and at peace with itself.
Switch from analogue to digital: Smelling a rat?
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- Published on Friday, 04 January 2013 03:16
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THERE has, certainly, been a great ‘leap forward’ as my Chinese friends would put it, in technological advances globally.
