Although wetlands in Tanzania and Kenya have great potentials for agricultural production and a multitude of uses, many of them are not even documented on official maps. Lack of official recognition has done little in preventing there over utilization. As the wetlands continue to play remarkable roles in the movement of people and terrestrial species in the region, it is important that they are...

Early marriage, defined as marriage before the age of 18, is mainly practiced in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, where over one third of African girls and nearly a half of South Asian girls are married during childhood. In subSaharan Africa, the highest rates of child marriage are found in West Africa, in countries such as Niger, Chad and Mali. However, in East Africa, the numbers of girls m...

Uganda is an East African country and, together with Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda and Tanzania, a member of the East African Community (EAC). It covers an area of 241,139 km2, which is roughly three-quarters the area of Germany or half that of Sweden. The population, registered as 30.2 million in 2006, is increasing, and reached 40 million at the end of 2009 according to Ugandan statistics. Uganda is...

This paper discusses some issues on how to evaluate the impact of HIPC debt relief in the cases of Tanzania and Zambia using two computable general equilibrium models. Within our relatively simple model framework, we found that the macroeconomic impact of debt relief is modest. One reason for this relatively modest impact is that the annual injection of additional resources relative to current ...

917 thousand By Ester Elisaria, IHI Malnutrition is one of the most serious health problems affecting infants, children and women of child age in Tanzania. Millions of children and women suffer from one or more forms of malnutrition, including stunting, underweight, wasting and anaemia. 40% of children aged less than 5 years have stunted growth, meaning they are short for their age, and 22% are...

the government of the united republic of tanzania has initiated the integrated management of childhood illness program to improve the health and wellbeing of children.tanzania's under-five mortality rate is still 1.7 times higher than the world average and, in order to achieve its millennium development goal 4 target, its annual reduction rate is quite low at 2.2. the main aim of the study is t...

This article documents and presents the range of wooden fishing cargo-carrying watercraft in use contemporary Zanzibar Channel, Tanzania. The work is based on surveys conducted 2018 Unguja, principal island archipelago, 2019–2020 Bagamoyo, mainland Tanzania, its immediate environs. authors present a broad typology vessel types form 3D photogrammetric models, orthographic views, photographs. con...

Male chimpanzees are often aggressive towards females. A new study from Gombe National Park in Tanzania reports that persistent attacks increase a male's probability of siring offspring.