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On 4th September the Baraza la Madiwani of Dar es Salaam City Council met in special session and agreed to bring in the private sector, under a PPP, to run the Pugu Kinyamwezi dumpsite. The meeting was chaired by the Mayor, Nurdin Bilal, with the City Director, Elihuruma Mabelya, as secretary. It was called to act on President Samia Suluhu Hassan's instruction to deal with the state of the city, after she said plainly what most residents already knew, and after the Speaker ma

World Clean Up Day 20th September This weekend, millions of people around the world will pull on gloves and fill bags with other people's rubbish. In Arusha, in Dar, in Nairobi, on beaches and roadsides and riverbanks in a couple of hundred countries. Go. Genuinely. The decision to act is the part most people never reach, and a street full of volunteers on a Saturday morning riles a warming sense of action and community. If you are organizing a cleanup or thinking about joini

At around two in the morning on Sunday 23 August, after heavy overnight rain, the side of the Dar es Salam landfill in Conakry, Guinea gave way and buried the homes built against it. Guinea's civil protection service put the toll at 32 dead and 27 injured by Monday afternoon. The government's first communiqué had said 30. The figure has moved several times and may move again. Two facts matter more than the rainfall. First, the site was already condemned. The Governor of Conak

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