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Tanzania: Unemployment in Zanzibar a Ticking Time Bomb

admin — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 06:51:03 +0000

Not only will such a situation bring in penury and destitution, but will also lure the jobless into breach of law to make quick money. In the process, criminality will increase and peace will be threatened. They say an idle mind is a workshop for the devil.

Almost 40 per cent of the population, and by postulation, the jobless, reside in the Urban West Region. Can anyone imagine what might happen if that army of jobless youths got incited and raided shops at Darajani Street in Zanzibar Stone Town?

One way of dealing with this problem is to facilitate farmers by ensuring that their produce fetches good prices. Unfortunately, many youths shun agriculture and the government has failed to check that trend.

Pemba is the largest producer of cloves, the main agricultural export.

Texas Faith: War and Faith

admin — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 05:50:46 +0000

In Islamic law after the qualifications for a just war have been met, political agreements might become null and void but commercial agreements certainly are not. Keeping commercial agreements valid even in a state of war certainly closes the door on the human desire to wage warfare simply for commercial gain. It’s rules like that and others covering even minute issues such as environmental restraints on armed conflict, that earned Islam the loving admiration of so many around the globe, thousands of miles from and centuries after its founding.

LILLIAN PINKUS, community volunteer and executive committee member of the Dallas Anti-Defamation League It is said that the Torah, the most sacred of Jewish texts (our guidebook on how to live a Jewish life), was given for the sake of peace, and “all her paths are peace”.