Background: Shortly after independence, Tanganyika and Zanzibar merged to form the nation of Tanzania in 1964. One-party rule came to an end in 1995 with the first democratic elections held in the country since the 1970s. Zanzibar's semi-autonomous status and popular opposition have led to two contentious elections since 1995, which the ruling party won despite international observers' claims of voting irregularities.
May 7th 2008Africa » Tanzania » North » Moshi As a disclaimer, I managed to find the only disfunctional keyboard in the internet cafe, so please excuse creative punctuation and spelling - some keys are missing or not working. The shift key is al ... [full story]
May 5th 2008Africa » Tanzania » North » Moshi Greetings, Grace and Peace, to each of you. I know that this report is finding you a day later than normal, after two weeks of dealing with the internet company, we have had to settle for the fact tha ... [full story]
May 4th 2008Africa » Tanzania » East » Dar es Salaam hey,
i was having breakfast this morning, while everyone else was having lunch, and i was eating my rice with a fork. an old woman in a suit sat down at my table because there are no personal boun ... [full story]
May 4th 2008Africa » Tanzania » North » Moshi Hi everyone. just to let you know that i got back safely for the people who are obviously interested. sorry if you are not but this is the easiest way to get in touch with people.
i will keep in to ... [full story]
May 2nd 2008Africa » Tanzania » North » Moshi Today Julie and I got up and decided to go into town, just the two of us. We needed to get some groceries and run some errands. So we went by the grocery store and then we drove around Moshi for abou ... 49 photos[full story]
May 2nd 2008Africa » Tanzania » East » Dar es Salaam the head nun of the YMCA told me never to trust a man from the street,
i'm not sure because i met hassan on the street. i have decided to
continue on continuing on the way i have been, trusting good ... [full story]
May 2nd 2008Africa » Tanzania » East » Dar es Salaam i am a sucker,
yesterday was may day, here in dar es salaam, whatever that means and it meant that the internet shop here at the YMCA was closed along with just about every business in town. the e ... [full story]
April 30th 2008Africa » Tanzania » Centre » Dodoma The Carpenter’s Kids Programme was established two years ago to address a problem faced by many of the children of this Diocese.
Since 2002 Tanzanian children have been entitled to a free pri ... 17 photos[full story]
April 30th 2008Africa » Tanzania » North » Arusha I totally forgot to tell you in the blog I just sent out that we are switching to GMAIL. We will be keeping the AOL email up and running for a while until everyone gets the new one on their computers ... [full story]
April 30th 2008Africa » Tanzania » North » Arusha Someone asked me yesterday, “When was the last time you sent out a blog?” I had to think, but then realized it was almost a month ago. So, sorry guys!!! I have fallen down on my job of ... 20 photos[full story]
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