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Tanzania to hold funeral service for plane crash victims

Tanzania to hold funeral service for plane crash victims

SOURCE: BBC NEWS Tanzania’s Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa will on Monday, November 7, 2022 lead mourners in paying their respects at a funeral service for 19 people killed after a passenger plane crashed into Lake Victoria in Tanzania. The plane crashed on Sunday morning near the shore at the end of the Bukoba airport runway. Of the […]

831 Human trafficking victims rescued,13 convicted

831 Human trafficking victims rescued,13 convicted

Source: GraphicOnline The security agencies last year rescued 831 human trafficking victims in the country. This was followed by 32 prosecutions, out of which 13 people have so far been convicted. The Chief Director of the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection (MOGCSP), Dr Afisah Zakariah, disclosed this in a speech read on her […]

Gender-Based Violence: The silent killer

Gender-Based Violence

By Oforiwa Darko Statistics from the Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit (DOVVSU) show that cases of Gender-Based Violence, especially among women and girls continue to go underreported and stigmatized. The few cases that are reported by victims who master the courage to do so mostly miss justice. In this report, GBC news’ Oforiwa Darko […]