The Dag Hammarskjöld Fund for Journalists

By Erick Kabendera

Today, UN SecretaryGeneral Ban Ki-moon is visiting Tanzania for the second time. His visit willalso extend to other Great Lakes region countries. 

Mr. Ban visited Tanzaniafor the first time in early 2006 as Korean Minister for Foreign Affair. He wason his six months campaign for the position of Secretary General and Tanzaniansupport, a Security Council member at that time, was very much needed.

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has urged Tanzania to offer more support to women in spacing children so as to prevent them from dying while giving birth. 



Conventional thinking has always shown concern over theillegitimate wealth that some heads of states help themselves to throughembezzlement and misuse of public funds and money laundering.

If the performance was taking place in Dar esSalaam, it would inevitably be compared to a Bongo Flava concert that woulddraw all top executives in the city plus their assistants to match up a crowdof 3000 diplomats and UN employees who attended the world renowned cellistYo-Yo- Ma’s concert.

The U.S. presidential election is likely to benefit the United Nations Fund for Population (UNFPA) and other women'shealth organizations if the Democratic presidentialcandidate, Mr Barack Obama, is elected.

The Times reported last year in August that theglobal media mogul Rupert Murdochhad telephoned journalists Parker-Pope, Kate Kelly and Henry Sender who hadditched one of his newspapers, The Wall Street Journal “begging” them to stayafter announcing that they were leaving the newspaper

The memories of Kulwa Mathias, a student in atainted school uniform and mismatching slippers that I met two years ago atNgwihando Primary School in Shinyanga rural, are still fresh in my mind. 

Coming from Tanzania, a country known for its hospitality, New Yorkers' attidutes were hard to swallow but I had to embrace them, whether I liked it or not.

The Citizen Newspaper Tanzania