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A two-day Open Government Partnership (OGP) Africa Regional meeting reached its climax in Dar es Salaam yesterday with participants asking African governments to enhance transparency, citizen...
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World| Mon May 11, 2015 3:36pm EDT
KIGOMA, Tanzania (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When heavily pregnant Hadija Mchume saw everyone in her Burundian village packing up to flee political...
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President Jakaya Kikwete has assented into law the contentious Cybercrime Bill which the National Assembly approved recently, Parliamentary Committee on Infrastructure was told yesterday.
The...
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It says organised crime, government corruption and militias are all linked to elephant poaching and the illegal ivory trade. Poachers in Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Sudan and Kenya it found out move...
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Tanzanian media companies compete fiercely for readers, listeners and viewers. Increasingly, they battle for followers and likes in the social media space as well.
So who is winning?
I looked...
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The Prime Minister of state in the Prime Minister's Office (Investment and Empowerment).Mr Christopher Chiza ,speaks at a past event
Dar es Salaam. Dodoma, Kigoma, Singida, Kagera, Tabora...
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While the parliamentary Economic Affairs, Industries and Trade Committee has asked for a detailed report on the $350 million controversy involving Vodacom Tanzania and one of its super dealers...
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Remembering and honouring all those who tragically lost their lives in the US Embassy attack in Nairobi in 1998.
Chelsea is thanking the incredible doctors and staff who welcomed her at the...
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Tanzanian GDP is 28 per cent larger- sources
THE TANZANIAN economy is larger than previously estimated, we can authoritatively report. The rebasing exercise, whose results are yet to be released...
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Burundian riot police walk past a street fire during a protest on the outskirts of Bujumbura yesterday. At least five people have died since clashes broke out on Sunday after the ruling CNDD-FDD...
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It is now obvious that the shilling is in a serious crisis because at no time in the past decade have Tanzanians witnessed a free fall of this magnitude of their currency.
Yesterday, the shilling...
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FOUR modern cargo trains that will operate from Dar es Salaam to landlocked neighbouring countries were launched at a colourful ceremony on Wednesday.
The launching was witnessed by President...
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"We were just doing them (KQ) a favour but now TCAA (Tanzania Civil Aviation Authority) has acted in accordance with the Bilateral Air Services Agreements" TRANSPORT MINISTER SAMUEL SITTA...
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RWANDA has been ranked among top 20 world greenest places for 2015, according to World Travel Guide, an international travel guide for adventurous travellers.
The global tourist guide on Tuesday...
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THE recent UN Climate-Smart Agriculture conference in Montpellier, France, warning about the alarming levels of starvation Africa faces if actions are not taken to stem climate change.
On the...
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From left: Ms Ummukhayr Sadri Abdullah, Ms Maryam Said Aboud and Ms Khadija Abubakar Abdulkadir when they appeared in a Mombasa court yesterday. They were not charged, but the court ordered that...
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Bank of Tanzania (BoT) Tanzania has allayed fears against the current fluctuations of the Tanzania shilling against the dollar and that citizens should not worry because it is a normal situation...
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When Loveness Isojick made the decision to go to West Africa as an aid worker in the Ebola-ravaged countries, it was a love and scare story, so to speak.
Her husband, a clinical officer, gave the...
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The kind of vehicle that city commuters are looking forward to after the Dar es Salaam Rapid Transit project is completed.
As Dar es Salaam residents wait with bated breath for modern rapid...
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Almost eight out of ten Swedes are either "not religious" or "convinced atheists", according to a new global study that concludes the Nordic nation is the least religious in the West.
Swedes'...
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