News & Current Events

By 2025 there could be no more African elephants roaming wild. Serious. ON August 12, the globe marks World Elephant Day. In just 10 years, at currrent poaching rates, the To highlight its...

Energy Sector Management Assistance Programme (ESMAP) Tanzania is mapping its potential to generate energy from renewable sources as part of an effort to bridge the nation's electricity...

Dar es Salaam. Three months remain before Tanzanians go to polls for the 2015 General Election, the race for the presidency will be tight. The big question is who will succeed Jakaya Kikwete for...

"In October 2013, Presidents Yoweri Museveni of Uganda, Paul Kagame of Rwanda and Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya agreed to implement a Single Customs Territory (SCT) between them as members of the East...

Tanzania Telecommunication Company Limited (TTCL) plans to make its fiber optic cable to be the information hub in east, central as well as southern Africa. In an exclusive interview with...

Maromboso primary court Arusha have thrown out a suit filed by one Hilda Kleruu,who oppesed the previous magistrate ruling over the right excuter of the will left behind by Miss Betty Luzuka ,a...

State House has refuted an article published by Mwananchi on Monday that revealed the salary of President Jakaya Kikwete. In a statement sent to different media outlets, by the Directorate of...

Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism Lazaro Nyalandu speaks to journalists in Dar es Salaam yesterday after receiving special vehicles to help in the anti-poaching drive worth Sh2.6 billion...

Serengeti National Park, the second largest safari in Tanzania and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, was voted the world's best safari destination, beating 140 entries from 63 countries around the...

The Mozambican police in the northern province of Cabo Delgado have seized a truck carrying a container filled with 15 semi-precious stones that were being smuggled to Tanzania, the local media...

Philippe Dongier, the World Bank Country Director for Tanzania Tanzania's economy is on a positive trajectory with a 7 per cent growth rate, yet the government's revenue levels are too low to...

President Jakaya Kikwete President Jakaya Kikwete yesterday graced the inauguration of construction works for the anti-malaria biolarvicide plant in Kibaha Coast Region. The inauguration was...

THE natural gas pipeline connecting offshore reserves south of the country to Dar es Salaam will be put into trial operation later this month. The government said the commissioning of the...

The 1978 liberalization enabled 800 milion chinese farmers to double their incomes ni only six years. Economist shujie yao contend that absolute poverty was long conceled by china's official...

The Permanent Secretary (PS) in the Ministry of Industry and Trade, Uledi Mussa Tanzania has submitted to the government of China a draft contract for selling maize as the country seeks markets...

Police in Rukwa region have arrested 19 people for possession of fire arms and machines used in making traditional. Regional Police Commander, Jacob Mwaruanda said the weapons were used in...

Five people, including a National Microfinance Bank (NMB) employee, have been arrested following a recent bank robbery of more than TZS 200 million at the bank's branch in Mkuranga district, Coast...

The High Court in Mbeya has sentenced four people to death for killing an albino teenager, Henry Mwakajila, 17 in 2008. Judge Samweli Karua ruled that the prosecution had proved beyond reasonable...

More than 6,000 refugees fleeing Burundi have crossed over into Tanzania in the last three days, taking to over 66,000 the total number of refugees who have arrived from its central African...

Only voters failing to register registered despite being at designated centre in time will be granted an opportunity to register after the process closes, the National Electoral Commission (NEC)...