Tanzania, March 25 -- Unguja. Addressing the audience at Madinat Al Bahir Hotel in Zanzibar on March 25, Mwananchi Communications Limited (MCL) managing director Bakari Machumu explained how and why the company decided to stage a Zanzibar edition of The Citizen Rising Woman Initiative, which is now in its fourth year.

"Last year, we asked ourselves: If we want to empower the nation, as the company slogan says, then how is our coverage outside of Dar es Salaam? How is our coverage in other regions and beyond Tanzania Mainland? We realized that there was a gap. So in doing self-reflection, we made a commitment to improve content coverage concerning Zanzibar. We did that by adding Zanzibar zonal pages to the Mwananchi newspaper and also org...