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For International Women's Day 2017, we're asking you to #BeBoldForChange . Call on the masses or call on yourself to help forge a better working world - a more gender inclusive world. Submit your #BeBoldForChange action via the IWD website. International Women's Day as a vehicle for change, is it possible? Last year, organizations and individuals around the world supported the #PledgeForParity campaign and committed to help women and girls achieve their ambitions; challenge conscious and unconscious bias; call for gender-balanced leadership; value women and men's contributions equally; and create inclusive flexible cultures. From awareness raising to concrete action, organizations rallied their people to pledge support to help forge gender parity on International Women’s Day (IWD) and beyond. But the World Economic Forum predicts the gender gap won't close entirely until 2186 . This is too long to wait. Around the world, IWD can be an impo...

Rev Dr Suzanne Matale – CCZ General Secretary The Council of Churches in Zambia (CCZ) has said that the death of 8 people in a stampede which happened during the distribution of food by a church organization must serve as an eye opener to the ruling Patriotic Front (PF) government that poverty levels in the country have reached alarming levels. In a statement released to the media yesterday and signed by Reverend Suzanne Matale, the CCZ General Secretary, the organisation said that many signs of high poverty levels such as increased criminal activities have been overlooked by government despite countless reminders from ordinary citizens, the civil society and the church that the social-economic situation in the country is continuously deteriorating with no signs of improvement. CCZ further said that all the meaningful development which government is claiming to deliver to the people of Zambia especially infrastructure development across the nation is meaningless if th...

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IRINGA: Mkuu wa Wilaya ya Iringa (DC), Richard Kasesela avitaka vyombo vya habari nchini kutenga mafungu kwa ajili ya utafiti ukiwemo wa mafuta na gesi asilia. Alisema kuwa masuala ya mafuta na gesi asilia yamepotoshwa kwa muda mrefu kutokana na wanahabari na vyombo vya habari kutowekeza katika utafiti, jambo ambalo linafanya wanahabri wengi kukwepa kuandika habari za utafiti au kupotosha jamii kwa lengo ya kuuza habari.  DC Kasesela alitoa rai hiyo wakati wa mafunzo kwa waandishi wa habari ya namna ya kuandika masuala ya mafuta na gesi asilia yaliofanyika hivi karibuni mkoani Iringa. Mafunzo hayo yalianaliwa na Shirika la Maendeleo ya Petroli Tanzania (TPDC) kwa kushirikisha mikoa ya Njombe, Ruvuma na Iringa. Alisema kuwa changamoto kubwa ya baadhi ya wanahabari huwa hawataki kujishughulisha na utafiti, kwani utafiti una gharama zake, jambo ambalo linafanya wanahabari wengi kukwepa kuandika habari za utafiti au kupotosha jamii ili mradi ku...

By Friday Simbaya, Iringa Iringa District Commissioner (DC), Richard Kasesela has asked the media to allocate funds for various studies, including oil and natural gas. He said that the issues of oil and natural gas have been misreported for a long time because the media have not invested in research, which makes journalists to dodgy writing stories or misleading the community. DC Kasesela made the observation during the training for journalists on how to write the issues of oil and natural gas occurred in Iringa region recently involving Njombe, Iringa and Ruvuma regions. The training was organized by Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation (TPDC) which is the National Oil Company of Tanzania through which the Ministry of Energy and Minerals implements its petroleum exploration and development policies. He said that the biggest challenge of some journalists do not want to devote to research, since research has its costs, which makes the most of them ...