The Daily IIJ

A Weblog by the International Institute for Journalism of GIZ

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Nyerere is the greatest blackman – President Museven

June 22nd, 2011 · No Comments

By Paul Mallimbo, Kampala President Yoweri Museveni has said that the former Tanzanian President, the late Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere, is the greatest black man who has ever lived. The President was on 1st June paying his tribute to the late Tanzanian leader during a church ceremony held at Namugongo Basilica, the Uganda Martyrs’ Shrine [...]

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UNDP fights land degradation in Tanzania

June 20th, 2010 · 1 Comment

The UNDP Deputy Country Director, Ms Louise Chamberlain has said that, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) will continue to support the Government of Tanzania in combating land degradation threat in addition to climate change threats and its impacts.

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Rare Kihansi toads set for trip home from US

June 20th, 2010 · No Comments

TWO Hundred Kihansi Spray Toads which were reported to be homeless by The New York times newspaper of Washington in February this year are now expected to return home from United States of America, mid July this year after staying in the zoos of Bronx and Toledo, in Ohio, where scientists at the Wild Conservation [...]

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Shielded rocket stove reduces green house gas emissions

July 8th, 2009 · No Comments

CHARCOAL is increasingly becoming a scarce commodity and is not only contributing to serious environmental problem like deforestation and soil erosion among other challenges but also pauses serious health hazards like diseases associated with respiratory systems.

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Katwe to benefit from ecosan toilets

July 8th, 2009 · No Comments

Ecological Sanitation (Ecosan) is a holistic approach to sanitation and water management based on the systematic closure of local material flow-cycles. It introduces the concept of sustainability to sanitation by its basic principle of closing the (nutrient) loop between sanitation and agriculture.

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husband forced his wife to breast feed five dogs

July 8th, 2009 · No Comments

By Paul Mallimbo, Kampala MAJORITY of Ugandans over early last were shocked to hear news of 27 year old woman being forced by her husband to breast feed five dogs as compensation of her husband’s two cows that he offered for her hand in marriage 11 years ago. Jennifer Alupot of Okurutuk village, from Apopong [...]

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Banana peels an alternative way of making charcoal

July 3rd, 2009 · 1 Comment

CHARCOAL is becoming more and more a scarce product in East Africa and is not only contributing to severe environmental problem like deforestation and soil erosion, but also pauses serious health hazards like diseases linked with respiratory systems.

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