TANZANIA - PREGNANT STUDENT BAN HARMS THOUSANDS
Tanzania's ban on pregnant students and adolescent mothers attending school has denied tens of thousands of girls their right to education, Human Rights Watch said today. Public schools across mainland Tanzania conduct compulsory pregnancy testing on female students and expel pregnant girls before they complete their compulsory education.Tanzania - Pregnant Student Ban Harms Thousands
Press Release - Revoke Decree; Allow Pregnant Girls, Young Mothers to Attend Schoolallafrica.com
Since June 2017, the late President John Magufuli and his successor, President Samia Suluhu Hassan, who took office in March 2021, have enforced an official ban against students who are pregnant or are mothers.
"Tanzania's girls are suffering because the government insists on an arbitrary policy that is ending their education, humiliating and isolating them, and destroying their futures," said Elin Martinez, senior children's rights researcher at Human Rights Watch. "The government should urgently end this inhumane policy and allow pregnant students and mothers back in school."
Human Rights Watch in July and August interviewed 30 girls and women ages 16 to 24. All had been expelled from school or stopped attending primary or secondary school between 2013 and 2021 because they were pregnant.
School officials and teachers are the primary enforcers of the government's policy, often in ways that humiliate and stigmatize girls, as well as their parents and guardians. Most of those interviewed had been tested for pregnancy at school or at a local hospital or dispensary, and then summarily expelled.
A number of girls were expelled just before completing lower secondary education, a milestone for many students given the country's low retention rates in secondary education. Several were unable to take national qualifying exams in Form 4, the last year of lower secondary school, because schools conducted pregnancy tests just before or in the middle of these exams.
School officials in Morogoro region in 2020 expelled a 16-year-old girl. Before her last two Form 4 exams: "They simply said because I was pregnant ... I was supposed to be kicked out of school even though I was left with only two exams. I really don't know what they were thinking ... . They didn't even want to hear me out. They just kicked me out of school."
Most girls and women interviewed were not enrolled in training programs or alternative education centers. Several were enrolled in non-formal tailoring training, and a couple attended a nongovernmental school that supports girls who have been expelled from public schools.
In 2020, the Tanzanian government announced that it would allow students who were pregnant or were mothers to enroll in a parallel accelerated education program, described as "alternative education pathways." This program will be expanded with US$180 million of the World Bank's US$500 million loan for Tanzania's Secondary Education Quality Improvement Program (SEQUIP).
"Tanzania is an outlier from other sub-Saharan African countries that have adopted laws, policies, and strategies to uphold the right to education of pregnant students and adolescent mothers," Martinez said. "President Suluhu should end the ban on pregnant students and adolescent mothers and make a commitment to safeguard and fulfill every girl's right to an education."
Source - Human Rights Watch (Washington, DC)
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cc joto la jiwe] ichoboy01 Sama boy 255 Lusematic Trubarg njooni muone Mtz ambaye hana wivu amekubali kwamba Nairobi expressway ni moto. Nyinyi endeleeni kuugua kwa wivu.
Ujamaa + Fisiemu = Total insanity in the system 😁😁😁
Kichaa huyo, hajui lolote zaidi ya kelele tuFool Jambojet haitui Tanzania, unawezaje kusema tunapigwa?
And you can imagine president ni mwanamke. Huyo Samia angesimamishwa shule sababu ya mimba angekua rais?Ujamaa + Fisiemu = Total insanity in the system [emoji16][emoji16][emoji16]
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Tanzania: TRC Receives 44 Freight Wagons for Central Line
The Tanzania Railway Corporation (TRC) on Wednesday received 44 freight wagons as part of a project to upgrade the country's central line to improve cargo transportation.allafrica.com
Pesa za ndani kwa ndani eti? [emoji23] [emoji23] [emoji23]
Kwenye super market na sehemu zingine za Tanzania hakuna unga wowote ulioandikwa made in Kenya.alafu hizo mahindi mostly mnauzia brokers hapa kenya. anaimport,anafanya processing hapa kenya Kisha anarudisha kwa shelves za middle class huko kwenu, bei anawagonga ×3 ya importation[emoji24][emoji24][emoji24]. mwenye anaumia ni mkulima pale tabora
🙏🏽wacha kwanza nichukue nafasi hii kuwashukuru waTz wote waliomo humu ndani kwa kukubali kua Nakuru, inaibiku Arusha na Mwanza.. asanteni sana waTz, mungu awabariki na awe nanyi kwa kukubali matokeo leo..
huaga wanasema. 'mtegemea cha nduguye hufa maskini'watakuambia walikomboa Africa kusini which is almost 100× better than them both economically and mostly in democracy😄😄😄
And you can imagine president ni mwanamke. Huyo Samia angesimamishwa shule sababu ya mimba angekua rais?
What if mwanamke anasoma sekondari akiwa mzee e.g 25years. Bwana yake akimpa mimba pia anasimamishwa shule? [emoji23]
Danganyika[emoji1241] is a shithole country sababu ya magufuli
wameikimbia Nairobi yao,lazima waishi hivyo kujihami ni lazima sisi tulilala,tuwaache wapige businessafu hawa KQ ukiingia kwenye website yao utaona kuna routes nyingi zinaanzia Dar, inabid tuwatoe hawa
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Ila kuna kitu hakijakaa sawa juu ya utendaji wa managementya ATCL, IMHO nadhani haina ubunifu ni kama inajiendesha kimazoea! Refer Kibubu marketing strategy baada ya Dunduliza ya PW yaani ni mfano hai kuoneyesha ni watu wa ku-react kutokana na matukio! They really need to wake up, hizi ndege mbili A220-300 zinakuja leo na nina hakika hawana hata landing permit moja ya kwenda West Africa be Nigeria/Ghana/Cameroon and yet wana routes za Ghangzhou/Bangkok na Mumbai and soon wataanza kutafuta flying permits za continental Europe!
Wananiudhi ATCL hamna innovation kabisa!wameikimbia Nairobi yao,lazima waishi hivyo kujihami ni lazima sisi tulilala,tuwaache wapige business
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ATCL kimbinu kwenye market inabidi ichangamke isiishie kutuletea ndege tu,Tatizo abiria balaa[emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]
yaani naona kabisa hawajajipanga,wanaendesha shirika kilocal sana,sioni future yao kwa upande wa ushindani wakisokoWananiudhi ATCL hamna innovation kabisa!