The Citizen (Dar es Salaam) 22 June 2011 editorial The Police Force in Dar es Salaam has launched what is likely to be yet another short-lived campaign to reduce congestion on the city's roads.The Dar es Salaam Special Police Zone Commander, Mr Suleiman Kova, on Tuesday announced a raft of measures police would take to ensure that motorists adhere to traffic rules, particularly in the city centre. This latest attempt to solve a problem that has for the past two decades or so been getting worse by the day is bound to fail because it does not address the root cause of congestion and endless jams on the city's roads. The number of vehicles in Dar es Salaam has risen exponentially in the last 20 years, but the development of transport infrastructure in the city and its environs has not matched the pace of this increase.
News circulating in Swaziland this morning is that the government went to court at 10pm last night (21 June 2011) to successfully obtain an order banning the three-day protest.
The court reportedly suspended the action pending a full ruling expected later today.
