TayserMahri:


The border was closed because of a spike in cases from the Tanzania border point. The Zambians were simply being diplomatic. They have busy trade posts with Congo as well. In fact some of the Tanzanian truck drivers who use Nakonde are on their way to Congo.

Most of the trucks to Congo use Nakonde since East Congo is a bit volatile, at the Congo border point is busy because of the goods from the port of Dar es salaam passing through Zambia.

Austine1212:


Zim boarder might close for long, i hope it does

It needs a wall

Too bad, it won't.

Austine1212:


Lol �

Ill let it slide

Don’t have to. WHO aren’t optimistic that the virus will go away. How long will you restrict movement

Austine1212:


This sweeden?

Yup, that Sweden.

TayserMahri:


How is that good news for your country? You realize the Zambians are talking of Tanzanian border, not any other border.

Because that has the largest movement of goods and people along her border line that is why she had to close it first to place proper measures. The other border posts aren't that busy thus easy to monitor.

TayserMahri:


Whats the plan now? Did you manufacture your own perfect kits? And why did you import herbs from Madagascar to treat people who were confirmed positive using faulty kit? As your neighbors have already shown, there is a high level of prevalence in your country. They are using the same test kits at the border as the ones more inland, but the ones at the border with Tanzania are showing that you have a high concentration of the virus in your country. You could fire 1000 lab heads and the virus would still continue to exist and spread.

That's why an investigation was launched to see the extent of the damage and to what extent the kits were faulty. And maybe our neighbors got the same kits tested them and saw being defective some not or maybe they didn't I don't know about the QA method they took. Everyone knows that the virus is in Tanzania and a lot of people have not shown symptoms thus not tested but that does not mean that we abandon the simple act of Quality Assurance just because we are in a crisis.

TayserMahri:


Everyone in the world knows some test kits are faulty. But they are being used nonetheless rather than having none. No other sane country has fired their lab head simply because the test kits are faulty. Thats foolish in the middle of a pandemic. What actually happened is that she refused to play to the tune of doctoring figures to maintain an artificial small prevalence due to her scientific ethical standards. Is she Tanzanian by birth? Her name sounds Kenyan, which could be another of the reasons behind her unceremonious dismissal. Anyway, for a doctor am shocked you could be defending such incompetence.

For a lab scientist I'm shocked that you could say such thing, the first thing a lab tech/scientist should do is always test new equipment, that's why when you by antigen reagents there will always be a positive and negative control so as to make sure that the test are working fine. For them not to check the effectiveness of there kits is plain simple negligence. Thus not only the head of the lab but all the top executives were fired for failing to make that simple follow up.

vaxx:
open the school , open the religious center, open the border and let life continue while maintaining science based solution . i.e handwatching, face mask, social distancing etc....


the virus is probably not going away soon .....

Tanzania and Sweden are way ahead on this....

rvp2018:
All Kenya Tz borders are showing serious COVID-19 case and now from Migori to Tanga - we want the borders close. Your almost cavalier attitude is shocking. I mean if western developed nations are fearful - you should be very paranoid.

This disease is REAL. Ask Donald Trump.

Its kinda hard to get paranoid when you have deaths from Malaria, HIV, Typhoid Fever and Dengue also not forgetting armed militias and gangs. Sometimes you just stare into death so much eventually you learn how to smile. Corona is a problem, but it ain't worse than what we have faced before.

TayserMahri:


Does it make a difference, son. The fact of the matter is the Zambians are alarmed by the positive cases coming from your primitive society. Your claim is false to start with..

Yes, there is a difference between permanently closing the border and temporary closing it so as to make an assessment on how to handle it. The foreign minister addressed in in parliament yesterday, the border will be opened in a week tops.

TayserMahri:


You guys are looking well on course to wipe out 99 % of your elderly people. Instead of a population pyramid you will soon be having a trapezoidal population, with the top half of the population slashed off.

Most of the elderly population in Tanzania are located in remote rural areas and so far most of the cases reported are in urban settings, with the current rate of spreading it will take some time before we see a strong effect of the virus to the elderly population.

TayserMahri:


What was the point of firing the head of the lab? Seems your president thinks she manufactured the test kits.

In a lab environment you have to test and make use every equipment and device you get is working properly, you just don't procure something them you just start using it. Failure to do so is direct incompetence or negligence and for the national health lab that is total unacceptable. The head of the lab got fired because the lab failed to detect that some of the kits are faulty.

TayserMahri:


Obviously you have glaucoma. I mentioned the firing of the head of the lab and all you saw is prayer. How do you propose we compare our numbers with yours that have been suspended since the massive one week explosion? We have been reporting numbers every day while you have not, burying your heads in the sand.

FYI, in a lab environment you have to test and make use every equipment and device you get is working properly, you just don't procure something them you just start using it. Failure to do so is direct incompetence or negligence and for the national health lab that is total unacceptable. The head didn't get fired because the numbers where spiking but rather because the lab failed to detect that some of the kits are faulty.

rvp2018:
President Magufuli yesterday refused to join an online meeting for East Africa Heads of State that centered on a coordinated response to combat Coronavirus in the region. Sources in Tanzania indicate that the situation in the country is very grim, hospital are getting overwhelmed and fresh graves are springing up every morning.

Today the US has issued a Health Alert for Tanzania , citing TZ's failure to communicate their numbers and added that the risk of contracting the disease in Dar-es-salaam is extremely high. A couple of days ago, Zambia totally closed their borders with TZ. Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda expected to follow suit.

Dude, stop fear mongering. What hospitals are getting overwhelmed?? I won't even ask for proof cause I know you ain't got any.

gallivant:


The borders should be permanently shut down to curb the pandemic. That's nothing to get all defensive about. If you want to risk your citizens health keep it on your side of the border.

Then tell your governments to close the border instead of complaining about what governments on other countries are doing.

rvp2018:
They became faulty when they certainly showed a huge spike and you had to fire the head of lab. They are faulty and the BEST we got now. HAKUNA NYINGINE!. If you're looking for perfect COVID-19 test kit - manufacture yours - because everyone is importing whatever is available.

When dealing with pandemics - you don't wait until you have all facts - you work with what you have - innovate as you go - what is wrong if you get false positives or negatives - it's better than nothing. Even HIV-AIDs kits are still not perfect.

Just because its the only thing we got does not mean that we should not say when it has a problem. Admitting it is the first step to fixing it. We might have taken an unorthodox way of dealing with it but we have measured the benefits of a lock down against business as usual and as a nation we support business as usual. If you think that is the wrong way, well, you are living in democracies, get your governments to close your borders.

rvp2018:
But you stopped testing - after Pombe decided to attack your test lab - and now in border post - Tanzanians are turning up with COVID-19. Mtakufa na ujinga yenu.

Who said we stopped testing? I work in the health sector in Arusha and the still take the same measure as before the president said he was skeptic about the test kits, and saying "Mtakufa na ujinga yenu" is grammatically incorrect in Kiswahili, the proper sentence would be "Mtakufa kwa ujinga wenu", and plus, why is it crazy when he says it when Australia, Bengal, U.S, India and the U.K have also found out that their kits are faulty and he didn't say to stop testing but rather review the devices used for testing, which is normal lab procedure to calibrate and test equipment with both a positive and negative control before use.

TayserMahri:


Magufuli would say the Zambian test kits at the border with Tanzania are faulty while those in the rest of Zambia are not.

The Zambia health minister said they closed the border to conduct cleaning, screening and testing in Nakonde to know the exact extent of the disease on the Zambian side so as to take proper actions, not permanently shutting it down till the pandemic ends.

TayserMahri:
The mind of a phd holder in Chemistry...

Lie to them the virus cannot live in the body of christ.
When the virus spreads, deny.
If the lab announces new cases, fire the head of the laboratory.

You didn't get the part in his speech where he told the nation that the disease is serious and people should take action to contain it, or there every other leader in the nation is telling the people that they should take action against the disease but the part of his speech telling people they should pray is the only one that is stuck to you? Okay, let me ask you this Mr/Ms my country has taken better steps to contain the virus, how many in your countries have the virus? how many have died? How many are still getting infected? Compare it with your over exaggerated number of death and infection in Tanzania and ask yourself if its any better per capita compared to Tanzania...

Tanzania Police Field Force Unit (FFU)

Tanzania Police CRT training in Virginia.

Tanzania Police Crisis Response Unit Hand to Hand Combat Practise

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnEdWIJeoKM

gallivant:


All this pain is because Kenya spends more in military than the entire EAC combined. Save your tears because the budget is set to increase annually.

The US spends more than twice what Russia and China spends combined but they would not even think of doing something stupid with them. Monetary expenditure depends on the military doctrine of the nation and the threat the nation faces, Kenya is at war so it will spend more than Tanzania that isn't. Tanzania keeps a low budget because that is what they need for now, there is no point of spending billions of dollars in defense when there is no credible threat to the nation. So your statement my friend is nothing but stupid.

rvp20182:
How much do you spend on police force.

$0.256 billion as of the 2018/2019 fiscal year, the amount grew last year but i failed to get the necessary documentation. https://www.parliament.go.tz/uploads/budgetspeeches/1525875930-HOTUBA%20YA%20MAMBO%20YA%20NDANI%20YA%20NCHI.pdf page 32.
Most of the money is used to pay salaries of the Police personnel while the rest goes to other uses. And on the report the currency is in Tanzanian shilling. Go for Jeshi la Polisi figures

rvp20182:
Their "soldiers" were disarmed by untrained bush militia in DRC Congo so the pay is probably commensurate. I wonder why Ghanian have such small defence budget.. Koffi Annan use to pull strings to get them UN gigs.

Oga are you dreaming?? Prove this that you claim....

gallivant:




Wow! Tanzania only spends $0.6 billion? Their soldiers must be paid in sacks of cassava and sisal bundles.

Tanzania has a defensive force of 30,000 active personnel and 80000 reserve, and her currency is at Tsh. 2200 against the dollar let apart that the cost of life in Tanzania is very low so, the military gets paid well but since life isn't that expensive and the currency is weak she only spends $0.6 billion in defense. It's simple economics.

Mbakuthegreat:
@Mzal3ndo

Yes, you are right in what you wrote. But the thing is that its the harscher environment of europe that made them develope a higher average IQ than the africans, if you had low IQ you would easily die. Imagine if africans in their current conditions were teleported to live in europe 2000 years ago? Most would die because they wouldn't have the brain to survive and the ones who would survive due to high iq would pass on their genes and create a smarter population.

When you talk about culture, i have compared african culture to the rest of the world. The thing is that african culture, values arent strong which is they are easily dominated by european, foreign culture and values, and easily destroyed. For example, if a nigerian or a kenya couple move to England, the chances of maintainig their africaness through culture, heritage etc are slim. You will see lots of african parents abroad refuse to teach their children their culture such as language and instead europen language, they dont teach them to preserve their culture, identity or heritage unlike other non african migrants. This is why it only takes 1 or 2 generations for an african lineage to dissapear through mixing with europeans.

Most Africans in europe eventually date europeans, and so does their mixed children which kill the african lineage completely. This is actually true for a family friend whom live in Denmark, she's in her 70s and has mixed children whom have white children whom recently got children by themselves, i have celebrated new years with them when visiting and i was the only fully 100% african there except for the grandmother, the furth generation children look like any european children. You can compare this to Europeans in Kenya, they have lived there for 200 years now but they still look as white as their forefathers, have the same names, speak the same languages, eat same food etc. Their culture and values are stronger and harder to destroy which is why they have survived that long serounded by african cultures. Its the same with Indians/pakistanis in Kenya and U.K, and even the lebanese in Nigeria. Their culture and values are stronger than that of the african, this is why it was easy for us to give up our african names, languages, religions, costums etc for european and arabic ones. The one thing i love about Nigeria though is that compared to other african countries they dont suffer as much inferiority complex, they dont worship foreigners such as europeans as much and have mantained their culture to a higher degree than lots of africans.

What i trully respect about other groups is the length they go to maintain their culture, values and identities. When the first europeans, whom were the portuguese, came to africa they landed in the Kingdom of Kongo (Today Angola, DRC, Gabon and Congo Brazza), upon contact, the first thing the ruler of the Kingdom of Kongo, Nzinga a Nkuwu, did was to convert to christianity and change his name to portuguese, João I of Kongo, (Africans christians dont have christian names, they have european name.) and initiated a major cultural initiative in 1485 which was meant to make Angola more portuguese due to his interest in Portugal and its culture. His son, Nzinga Mbemba, baptized Afonso I of Kongo, continued his legacy by conversing all of the Kongo Kingdom into christianity and trying to make it culturally portuguese. Similar situations can be found all over Africa. The only exception when it comes to weak african cultures in subsaharan Africa are Somalis, Ethiopians and Eritreans. These people like europeans, arabs, asians etc value their culture and uphold it wherever they are. Somalis in U.K live with Somalis, and uphold their, ethiopians and eritreans do the same, these people always marry each other wherever they are like the europeans, asians and arabs due to strong cultural values which they want to mantain. The opposite is true for the rest of Africa, its only africans who would take joy living in a neighbourhood with europeans, asians, arabs etc. while these groups take joy living around their own people.

Non african culture and values are really stronger, to mantain their culture and values european men would kill black men for even looking at their women, and i even have a male family acquaintance whom was killed by a Pakistani family for dating their daughter. There are even numerous news of asians killing african men for dating their women. Arabs do it to. But when have you heard about an african (black man) touching an european, asian, arab, etc for dating their daughter? In Africa its even a custom for the parents and the village to celebrate when our daughters marry european, asian, foreign men but will reject her if she marry an african from another tribe. And this is even though the fact that when she marry an european, foreign man it means the end of african lineage with their daughters because most mixed children dont date africans but europeans.

Ask yourself why europeans are eager to spread homosexuality into subsaharan Africa but not in Arab countries, even north africa which stones gays... First their is an agenda with homosexuality which is simple as to destroy the african family structures which will lead to depopulation of africa, and second is that they know Arab culture is stronger than african and that Arabs could never let europeans push their agendas on them which would destroy their family structures and goes against everything they believe in especially the quran. They have succeeded in S.A due to liberal blacks but the white people there are some of the most conservative people on earth and dont subscribe to it in their community. I have a friend who told me the result there that they have lots of tv shows with gay black men and this has led to the destruction of the mind of young S.A youth who have adopted gay life styles. You will find similar situations in america within black community, and also with european blacks in U.K, France Belgium, whom all have a big black population, which i have visited and seen with my own eyes.

My biggest fear as an african is that someday we will be conquered and dissapear out of Africa just like the native Indians. Many Africans, due to low IQ i believe, dont think it can happen. But look at what not having fear has brough us... We didn't fear arabs and welcomed them which they used as an opportunity to colonise us and engage in the biggest slave trade in history against africans. We didn't fear the europeans which they used an opportunity to colonise us and engaged in the biggest slave trade in history against africans, and till today the francophone africa are suffering from neo-colonialism but we still dont fear them and continue to welcome them. Today the chinese are coming into our lands and we dont fear them and are docile, submissive with inferiority complex just like we always are. Some African countries are now teaching african children Mandarin, so you can wonder how long it will take till they start naming their children Chang Ling and practising Buddhism. We dont fear for our lives, we dont fear for the lives of our grand children, we dont fear to die in the hands of foreigners, this is why Africa look the way it does. We make bad decision which hurt us because we dont fear, when you fear you take decision which will help you survive. If our forefathers feared we would never be colonised, but culturally we are a people who do not fear. Look at the Ethiopians, the only people not colonised, it was comprised of different rulers at the time with their differences but whom when the Italians attacked came together under Haile Selassie I because they feared for their lives. But then again, Ethiopian culture goes back thousands of years and is strong unlike the African, and the Ethiopian Empire was one of the oldest.

The future of my grandchildren scares me because im serrounded by africans with low IQ who don't fear.

You know the one thing that makes me laugh when we Africans are debating on ways we can go forward is that we always give out simple answers to difficult questions. We never sit down and say let us do this now, not for today but for tomorrow, and that is reflected on how we live everyday. I personally hate how we Africans everyday are seeking approval from the west and how we don't do anything right until the west says its right. And that is portrayed even in our governments. The mind set that to be educated you have to know English, while the Germans, the biggest economy in Europe teaches to the university level in German, best Chinese universities teach in Mandarin while the low level one that we black love to send our kids to offer courses in English taught by the teachers that aren't that fluent in the language. I agree with you, IQ is environmentally determined and like everything it has to be well cultivated to see its fruits. Africans like setting up environments for other Africans to fail, deliberately or not. We just grab everything the whites are doing without looking at the underlying consequences to what we do. Africans in Europe don't invest back home (most of them) they just wait until they come back home for vacation to be treated like kings and queens. While if they invested, their investment would grow as local lives keep on improving, but do we ever thing of this no, and when someone does and decides to invest the locals and relative rob him/her dry not realising the long term effect it has to the community. but oh! well what do i know....

vaxx:
i check on the report is just a 74 percent electrification access rate. comparing that with Ghana ( of about 90 percent rate ) is baseless .....

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Tanzania is leading in the number of villages electrified on percentage of the county electrified. On percentage Tanzania is still behind but given that the population is almost twice that of Ghana, but on 2021, by the current installation rate, she will have 100% universal coverage.

Mbakuthegreat:


You said it yourself, Africa is a vast land of 50 diverse countries but what they all share in common from Nigeria to Tanzania from the north to the south is that these 50 diverse countries are the poorest in the world with the poorest people, is that a coincidence? IQ determines how successful you are going to be in life and Africa suffers and is an unsuccessful continent because Africans live in Africa. I'm not denying the fact that there are Africans with high IQ or normal, but the majority have low IQ which is why Africa suffers. Its enough to just read here and see the depth of the things people write here to understand that you are dealing with not so bright people.

I once did a personal research in determine why Africans are in this state on mind and the study group was the Haya tribe in Kagera North-West of Tanzania. It was based on that the people of this region in where were producing carbon-steel in the early first millenium BC while Europe was able to do so in 19th century. This was a clear indication of the fact that had the brain power to perfect such a skill way before the white could do, so what made them not develop?
My answer, although no scientifically proven and more of a personal opinion, the cultural and the environmental differences were what made Europe take a leap forward before most of Africa. Europe has been seen to have harsher weather and living conditions than most parts of Africa especially along the equator. Most areas of Africa weather is present and nice that people do not have to think of a way to make the environment adopt to them but rather they adopted to the environment because it wasn't a challenge to them. Europe on the other hand has such terrible and challenging weather that they have only one season to plant and one to harvest, so they had to think of ways that they can increase their chances of survival. With that they came up with better ways of farming, then better ways of storing food, better ways of making clothes and housing and they kept up the mentally of making their environment adopt to them unlike Africa.
The second thing was culture, they way the societies where set up. Europe was under kingdom rule of a long time until most of the people decided to change that and re-organised their society structures. This in turn for most part led to the field to which anyone with the means to do better and succeed did and later that made people trade more, and grow since people and nations invested in people with talent and ideas, ie. Da Vinci with the Medici family and Columbus with the Spanish and Dagama with the Portuguese. Most part of Africa didn't have that because most part of Africa was under kingship and one person had power over everyone. This was why it was easy by my opinion to colonise Africa and take slaves, because they only had to deal with one person on top, no individual people with free will, and on most cases granted that the king did not revolt or cause any problem for them, the Europeans let them keep their titles and power over their kingdoms which for most of them it was more than enough. So for me, and i might be wrong, what is bringing down Africans is (i) The "Why fix what isn't broken mentality" and (ii) Africans on the top suppressing those on the bottom who want to rise up, causing a lack of competition which results in the lack of innovation.

tylann:

You can close all those undetected routes
Even Nairobi has undetected routes even them they have been closed to stop the process
Even in Nairobi it is a crime to go out without a mask

Easier said than done

tylann:

You can put partial lockdown like kenya
Allow only goods to move in and outside dar not people if you stop people movement the virus will not move

Dar es salaam already has 6 million people and there is over a thousands ways you can get into Dar es salaam undetected, and we have already taken measures you can not go anywhere in Dar es salaam without a face mask, some shops are closing down in busy Kariakoo and no gathering at bars, clubs or any social function with more than 10 people. The government has looked at all this but at the end they take the option that best suits the people due to the culture of the people.