When having to spend the night in the newsroom felt safer than driving home

Desperate times call for desperate measures: The author sleeps in the office on the night of October29/30 when Dar es Salaam was under a dusk-to-dawn curfew. PHOTO | COURTESY

By  Samuel Tindwa

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  • Then came Wednesday, October 29, 2025. I spent the night in the newsroom again but this time, not out of passion or professional pressure. This time, it was safer to stay indoors than attempt to drive home

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