[Daily News] Arusha - MEMBERS of the National Social Security Fund, who are meeting here, have proposed that local schemes start recognizing polygamous marriages.

[Daily News] AFRICA is mourning after at least 74 people were killed when supporters clashed at an Egyptian football match on Wednesday night.

[IRIN] London - A new attempt to quantify malaria deaths over the past 30 years suggests the death toll, especially among adults, has been greatly underestimated. The figures also show the fragility of the gains made in fighting the disease.

[Citizen] A plan to equip girls with self-defence techniques against being molested should be hailed as one of the apt solutions to a problem that continues to pose a challenge to society.

[Citizen] It is official that the eating habits of Tanzanians have changed in recent times.The proof is in the results of a recent World Bank-funded research supervised by Twaweza and implemented by the Mobile Phone Public Services Monitoring Project in Dar es Salaam.

[Citizen] The State House insisted yesterday that the Office of the Speaker of the National Assembly has to answer why it started paying MPs the increased sitting allowances to without the approval of the President.

[State Department] Washington - The United States is sending an energy trade mission to Mozambique, Tanzania, Nigeria and Ghana to look at potential investment projects with the aim of enhancing the countries' ability to generate electric power, a senior State Department official says.

[RFI] Situated only a few hours away from Tanzania's border with Kenya, Mount Kilimanjaro and its 5,896 metres stands as the African continent's highest point. Every year, thousands of people from across the world come to Tanzania to try to make it to the rooftop of Africa.

[Citizen] As our country acquired independence, the leadership spelt out what was famously described as three cardinal enemies our anticipated development: poverty, ignorance and diseases.How successful have we been in overcoming these "enemies", after 50 years of uhuru remains a big question. Thousands of Tanzanians continue to die from easily treatable diseases.

[Citizen] State House has vehemently refuted media reports that President Jakaya Kikwete has okayed the increase of sitting allowances for Members of Parliament.The statement by the President's Directorate of Communication said yesterday that there was no time the Head of State agreed to the application by the office of the Speaker to raise the stipend but that "he only gave direction on how to go about the issue."