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SELECTED INDICATORS*
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Total Population (2000) ........... 33.5 million
Projected Population (2015)...... 57.9 million
Life Expectancy Years M/F........ 46.8/49.1
Percentage Urban (1995)......... 24
Total Fertility Rate................... 5.48
Infant Mortality /1,000............. 82
Maternal Mortality /100,000...... 530
% Illiteracy Rate >15 M/F........ 16/34
GNP per Capita PPP$ (1998).... 483
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* Source: 
The State of World Population 2000
United Nations Population Fund - UNFPA
 

UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA

RAPE AT 
THE END OF THE WORLD
 by Stephanie Nolen  for Toronto
Globe and Mail

Marie-Louise Niyirora braces her hand on a flimsy wooden table, straightens her shoulders and begins to run through her list.

Let's see: every day, the women have to go out to collect food and firewood alone. And the young men, hardened and aggressive because of the violence they have seen, can not work or go to school. They just sit around all day and drink home-brewed banana beer. It is a perilous situation.

Ms. Niyirora, 29, was a secretary before she left her hometown in Burundi. Now, she works as a sexual violence counselor in Mtabila, the refugee camp in Kigoma, Tanzania, where she lives.

She finishes her tally of the reasons for the ravages of rape and sexual exploitation in the camp, sits back and says: "When you live along in the camp, (men) despise you and you haven't any protection."

 

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RAPE AT THE END OF THE WORLD
by Stephanie Nolen
Toronto
Globe and Mail