Governor seeks to protect snubbed women

The governor of Tanzania's largest city has announced a plan to create and publish a national database of married men to protect women from ‘heart breaks’. Dar es Salaam Regional Commissioner Paul Makonda said he has received many complaints from women who were abandoned by their lovers after a marriage proposal, and that the proposed database will help combat infidelity. ‘I have been receiving complaints from women who have been promised marriage ... yet the men didn't fulfill the promise,’ Makonda said, adding that the snubbed lovers ‘kept paying the bills’. CNN reports that a similar proposal in neighbouring Kenya sparked controversy after a governor vowed to expose politicians who abandoned their lovers who had fathered their children.