PAMLOMO-SAUTI YA JAMII

Mgombea Ubunge kupitia tiketi ya CHADEMA katika Jimbo la Iringa Mjini, Mch. Peter Msigwa (katikat) akiteta jambo na Mjumbe wa Kamati Kuu-Taifa,Bi Chiku Abwao (kushoto) Jumatano.

By Friday Simbaya, Iringa TANZANIA Food and Drugs Authority (TFDA) in Iringa Municipal Council have conducted crackdown and intercepted various items and later one destroyed at the dump site at Kihesa Kilolo for allegedly to be unfit for human consumption including bottled water and tined milk from South Africa. The TFDA in collaboration with municipal health department had seized and destroy about 367 cartoons of bottled water with the street value of 765,100/- from MajiAfrica Tanzathai Co. Ltd-Iringa, a number of tins of infant milk called S26 believed have some melamine, fake women sanitary pads called ‘Always’ and some cosmetics for hip lifting used to enlarge hips. According to Iringa Municipal TFDA coordinator, Ms Deodata Rukupwa, who is also Municipal Health Officer, have seized the cartoons of bottled water containing some white particles inside from water wholesalers, sanitary pads, infant formula milk from SA and some fake medicated soaps. Although she could not pro...

By Correspondent Friday Simbaya, Iringa JOURNALISTS have been called upon to write news stories of the rural areas because the media coverage in the country is predominantly urban. The challenge was given yesterday by Danstan Raphael a trainer from the Flame Tree Media Trust (FTMT) during the on going ten-day effective rural photojournalism coaching in Iringa region. He noted that Tanzania has a population of around 38 million people and about 80 percent of Tanzanians live in rural areas, yet the media coverage in the country is mainly urban. “The media outlets are in the urban, while the newspaper columns and TV/radio is filled with urban happenings and details, according to the Media Council of Tanzania (MCT) report of 2007/08” said Raphael. The effective rural photojournalism education is involving ten journalists who are members of Iringa Press Club (IPC), it is funded by Tanzania Media Fund (TMF) in collaboration with MCT. The under reporting of rural issues ‘kill’ ...