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I would like express my heart felt congratulations to Mr Yusuph Manji for being requested to be Honorary President for Africa as Goodwill Ambassador for Peace in Africa by World Organization for...
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Recent data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) shows that Tanzania’s economy took a dent in the first quarter of this year. Bank of Tanzania (BoT) also corroborated the data noting that...
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Twaweza in collaboration with Uwezo Tanzania launched the Fifth Uwezo Learning Assessment on 1st September 2016 . In September and November 2014, Uwezo Tanzania at Twaweza conducted the fifth...
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THE Anti-Poaching National Task Force has arrested one person, Boniface Mathew Malyango, famously known as ‘Shetani Hana Huruma’, (Pitiless Devil) whom the prosecution also described as ‘King of...
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Precision Air Services has extended its annual losses by 9 per cent to Sh91.6 billion. But it is optimistic that it will turn around its fortunes. The company widened losses to Sh91.6 billion in...
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INDIA has appealed to Tanzania to lift the restriction imposed on export of tanzanite weighing over one gram and subsequently double its export tax as a measure to curtail illegal trade of the...
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Tanzania misses out 18bn/- each year from international airlines using the country’s skyline due to lack of surveillance radars to guide them, Deputy Minister for Works, Transport and...
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A detailed and thought provoking analysis of Tanzania's position in the East African Community. Enjoy!
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Tanzania may receive $4.2 billion in foreign direct investment this year, double the average annual amount, boosted by inflows for a single project, the head of the Tanzania Investment Centre...
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By Faudhia Kitenge, It was not my fault or my choice to have albinism and live with it through out my entire life. But its the society's fault to create exclution, discrimination and oppression...
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Tanzania’s President, Dr. John Magufuli, has arrived in the country to attend President Yoweri Museveni’s swearing-in ceremony scheduled for tomorrow, Thursday. Magufuli jetted into Uganda aboard...
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Tanzania pushes for gas-powered vehicles to save cost Ismail Akwei 19 hours ago TANZANIA In the abundance of natural gas deposits in Tanzania, the public is advised to convert their petrol or...
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The sentence was imposed by Senior Resident Magistrate Pili Mande at Manyoni District Court in Singida Region, after convicting the poachers, Bernard Wilson, alias Jacob and Hamis Athanas, alias...
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Aircraft wreckage potentially from missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has been found on an island off the east African coast, an Australian official said. Transport minister Darren Chester, who...
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Should sugar speculators be allowed to store sugar and wait for the price to rise before selling there stock? Where exactly is the line between encouraging the business of speculation, and...
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The burning of a stockpile of ivory in Kenya recently was a wasteful and ridiculous act arranged by a self-righteous attention seeking conservationist and politicians. The result is the opposite...
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​ South African music icon, Yvonne Chaka-Chaka, has urged the leaders in the continent to emulate Father of the Nation Mwalimu Julius Nyerere by fighting for the interests of their people...
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It is the period in which a man who has turned a thorn in the flesh of the prevailing Isles’ political status quo, Maalim Seif Sharrif Hamad emerged to the heights of politics and the period in...
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By Loveday Wright Less than a year after President Magufuli took office, Tanzania is already gaining influence among its neighbors and moving away from its reputation as a lone ranger in the...
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France, through its International Development Agency (AFD), has granted 65 million Euros (about 161.5bn/) as a concessional loan for the modernisation and extension of the Julius Nyerere...
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