AlertNet: Mariam Kandege, 24, a worker at a fruit canning factory in the sprawling city of Dar es Salaam, wakes at 5 a.m. and hurries from her rented room in the Kimara suburb to a bus terminal, joining the scramble to get a seat on a daladala, a privately owned minibus, which quickly joins the bumper to bumper traffic jam into town.
After changing buses several times, she finally reaches the factory in the Nyerere Road industrial area, 30 kms (20 miles) away, at 8 a.m., a journey that leaves her tired…

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