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Harassment of PIUMA by police authorities escalates

Police have detained Jackson Mbogela, director of PIUMA, in Iringa for questioning. PIUMA is meeting today to discuss how to react to this infringement of Mr. Mbogela's human rights and its own right to organize without intimidation from local authorities.

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Terry’s Tanzania

In January 2006, Montreal’s famed Gazette cartoonist Terry Mosher (Aislin) traveled to the Southern Highlands of the East African nation of Tanzania to visit Highlands Hope.

He captured the beauty, the heartbreak and the courageous determination of Highlands Hope activists like nurse Betty Liduke, community-organizer Jackson Mbogela, and the men, women and children who make the Makete and Njombe Districts of Tanzania a very special place.

Take a look at Terry’s scrapbook