The Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Tanzania is excited to announce the screening of The Last Seed, an award-winning film produced by the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung. The first such screening in Tanzania and subsequent discussion about the film is schedule to take place during the forthcoming 2nd Pan African Seed Conference, from 14th – 16th August 2023 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The Conference is expected to bring togeth ...
RLS is proud to support and be part of the 2nd Pan African Seed Governance Conference to take part on 14-16 August 2023 in Dar es Salaam. Save the Date - 14 - 16 August 2023, Dar es Salaam ...
By Joan Leon - Programme Manager, RLS East Africa Office In recent decades, climate change has increasingly had a significant impact on the livelihoods and well-being of the global human population. It is further expected that, in tropical countries, increased heat stress, drought, loss of fertility on land and soil erosion will further lower food production come 2050. The level of damage from such impacts are adv ...
On 19 June, the Kenyan government concluded and signed the EU-Kenya Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) following a series of unsuccessful attempts to persuade the rest of the East African Community (EAC) to sign onto an EPA between the EU and the EAC as a whole. This comes two years after Kenya decided to pursue the EU-EAC EPA on its own and made a request at the EAC Heads of State Summit for an exemption to implem ...
As the cost of living skyrockets, protesters are demanding the government in Nairobi take action By Mussa Billegeya* Last week, protests shook the Kenyan capital Nairobi and other cities. At least one person was killed and circa 200 were arrested. The protests marked the beginning of the now twice-weekly recurring protests rocking the nation and the culmination of political infighting following the August 2022 el ...
The defeat of the 1848 Revolution paved the way for Germany’s subsequent reactionary path to unification and beyond By Albert Scharenberg* Over the next few days, one could expect German society to commemorate the one-hundred-and-seventy-fifth anniversary of the 1848 Revolution. It was this revolution, after all, that led to the creation of the first national parliament and thus represented, in a way, the birth o ...
By Mercy Ambani* The Horn of Africa is experiencing its worst drought in four decades. Kenya’s National Drought Management Authority estimates that 4.35 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance. Climate change has seen the country graduate from facing drought every seven years to the weather becoming unpredictable thus affecting food production in the country. In October 2022, a decade later, Kenya ...
Kitabu hiki kinatoa uchambuzi wa siasa-uchumi kuhusu MIUMBI na athari zake kwa nchi ya dunia ya tatu kama Tanzania. Waandishi wametumia lugha rahisi ambayo msomaji yeyote anaweza kuielewa hata kama ni mara ya kwanza kusikia kuhusu MIUMBI. Ni jambo la kutia faraja kuwa kitabu hiki kimeandikwa kwa lugha yetu wenyewe. Msomaji atapata mifano dhahiri kuhusu mambo yaliyojiri kihistoria hadi kufikia nchi kuanza kuwekeana mi ...