Zanzibar is seeing a seaweed boom. Will the women collecting it see the benefit?

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(26 Oct 2025) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: ASSOCIATED PRESS Zanzibar, Tanzania - 24 July 2025 1. Women in the water farming seaweed 2. SOUNDBITE (English) Klara Schade, Mwani Zanzibar chief executive officer: ++PARTLY OVERLAID WITH SHOT 3, 4, 5 AND 6++ "We focus very much on women empowerment. Women traditionally come from seaweed farming. So, we work with them to add value to the seaweed they farm, and train them over a period of years. They historically don’t have much of an educational background,