Zanzibar/Unguja. The Director-General of the Zanzibar Housing Corporation (ZHC), Mwanaisha Ali Said, has warned tenants who have changed the houses into brothels and unlicensed guest houses.
Her warning comes amid rumours that the house belonging to ZHC have been turned into places where people meet for sexual activities and prostitution.
Speaking to the media, the DG said there are also allegations that some tenants have been renting the houses for drug consumption.
In addition to that, she said there are some tenants who have been putting the houses as collateral in banks or financial institutions and turning the houses into garages.
She said such behaviours are against lease agreement and the laws.
“Also there agents who cooperate with ZHC Officials to sell the houses,’ she said.
ZHC has been given the authority to manage the housing sector in Zanzibar with 2,303 houses for rent in Unguja and Pemba.
Ms Mwanaisha emphasised that they will continue to take stern measures against anyone who is found breaking lease agreement.
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Monrovia — The Rwanda Minister of State responsible for Health, Dr. Yvan Butera, cautioned that while the country is beginning to see positive signals in its fight against the Marburg virus, the outbreak is “not yet over”. He, however, expressed hope that “we are headed in that direction”. The minister said the epidemiology trend, since the disease was first discovered in the country more than a month ago, is moving towards fewer cases.
Dr. Butera, who was giving updates during an online briefing yesterday, said in the past two weeks, only two deaths were recorded while 14 people recovered from the disease. He said Rwanda was expanding its testing capacity with 16,000 people already inoculated against the disease.
The priority right now, Butera said, is “rapid testing and detection”.
Marburg is a highly virulent disease transmitted through human-to-human contact or contact with an infected animal. The fatality rate of cases, which has varied over the period, is more than 50%, according to the World Health Organization. WHO said the highest number of new confirmed cases in Rwanda were reported in the first two weeks of the outbreak. There’s been a “sharp decline” in the last few weeks, with the country now tackling over 60 cases.
At Thursday’s briefing, a senior official of the Africa Centers for Disease Control, Dr. Ngashi Ngongo, said mpox – the other infectious disease outbreak that countries in the region are fighting – was been reported in 19 countries, with Mauritius being the latest country to confirm a case. He said although no new cases have been recorded in recent weeks in several countries where outbreaks occurred previously – including Cameroon, South Africa, Guinea, and Gabon – Uganda confirmed its first Mpox death. This, he said, is one of two fatalities reported outside Central Africa.
Dr. Ngashi revealed that there was an increase in cases in Liberia and Uganda. He said mpox cases were still on an upward trend.
“The situation is not yet under control.”
Source: allafrica.com
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