A woman at Magomeni Street in Mtwara shows The Citizen reporter her charred house which was torched after the eruption of violence sparked by a disagreement between the government on the construction of a gas pipeline from Mtwara to Dar es Salaam. PHOTO | ELIAS MSUYA
What you need to know:
Mtwara politicians, who formed an alliance to coordinate the demonstrations against the State’s plan to build a natural gas pipeline, accuse the government of political blindness and failing to read warning signs that show there is a wind of change blowing as far as people’s civic awareness is concerned.