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The tiny island of Zanzibar, locally known as Unguja, sits 15 miles off the coast of Tanzania, near Dar-Es-Salaam. A semi-autonomous region, it’s renowned for pristine beaches and rich history. Douglas Cruickshank offers this insider’s profile.
, ex-Peace Corps volunteer, and citizen activist. When you sail in to Zanzibar Island you’re immediately convinced you’ve arrived in a radically Photoshopped photograph. The Indian Ocean is impossibly blue, cerulean, or maybe just turquoise, and everything else is mind-blowingly vivid, clear. Giant aquatic creatures swim around psychedelic beds of coral. And you soon learn you have arrived in one of the world’s most historically rich destinations. Zanzibar is the evocative, exotic land you always dreamed of, but with all the modern amenities, great food, rhythmic music, and friendly, ...
Graphic Online BY: Enoch Darfah Frimpong 30.5k Shares 705 The activities of sand winners in the Teacher Mante area of the Eastern Region in relation to the gathering and carrying away of parts of the solid earth such as sand and gravel as raw material for construction of roads and buildings is becoming a nuisance in the area. Apart from degrading the lands in the area, the activities of the sand winners have been disturbing the Teacher Mante community in the form of destruction of the road in the centre of town as well as the spread of dust in the centre of town.
Zhen Jing Yu (middle) Impudent and brazen-faced rogues allegedly beat a Chinese investor Zhen Jing Yu whose land they encroached at Teacher Mante in the Eastern Region. The suspected landguards pounced on the Chinese investor who was in the company of his three workers and allegedly slapped him severally, pointed a gun at him and used the butt of an AK47 rifle to hit his left ear causing damage to the eardrum. Zhen Jing Yu was allegedly dragged into his car by the landguards numbering about 20 and ordered him to leave. The incident happened on November 18. The victim, Zhen Jing Yu is a mem...