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BREAKING NEWS

Photojournalists killed, gravely wounded in Libya • By Joe Pompeo  – Wed Apr 20, 12:26 pm ET Vanity Fair confirmed a little after 1:30 p.m. on Twitter Wednesday that one of its contributing photographers, Tim Hetherington (pictured above), has died while covering the conflict in Libya. Hetherington was a renowned British-American photojournalist and the Oscar-nominated director, with Sebastian Junger, of "Restrepo," a 2010 documentary about a year spent on assignment for Vanity Fair in Afghanistan. The New York Times' C.J. Chivers, who is stationed in Libya, reported the news shortly thereafter, confirming that three other photographers were wounded: "The wounds to two of the photographers -- Chris Hondros and Guy Martin -- were grave, according to a colleague at the triage center where they were being treated Wednesday night. Their prospects for survival were not immediately clear." Hondros was on assignment for Getty. The fourth photographer, Michae...

SHULE NYINGI ZA UMMA ZINAKABILIWA NA IDADI KUBWA YA WANAFUNZI

 A cross-section of the standard one pupils' classroom at Peramiho Primary School in Songea District, Ruvuma Region was listening to their teacher during their lessons yesterday. A lot of public schools in many areas of the country are facing the problem of over population of pupils, for instance, one classroom can occupy more than 60 pupils at once, which is making difficult to many teachers to attend to each pupil effectively. As the result they are end up of been overridden hence poor academic performance. This is the Head teacher for Peramiho Primary School, Jane Mkuwa, who is a 26th head teacher since the school was established in 1928, during an interview with the reporter on  Wednesday. She said her school faces lot problems including small school capitation and the old school buildings which have not renovated for long time now. The school was built by the missionaries of (Benedictine Father of Peramiho, Roman Catholic...