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CA member, Zarina Madabida The death penalty is likely to remain in the new constitution as members of the Constituent Assembly (CA) yesterday expressed general support for capital punishment and...
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The new timetable was changed after the Steering Committee chaired by Mr Sitta met to deliberate on how quickly the CA could work around the clock to beat October 4 deadline. Barely a day after...
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Earlier today, suspected bandits threw a bomb at a minibus, killing three passengers, one of them an infant, and seriously injuring six others. Confirming the incident, Buhigwe District Police...
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Mtwara Regional Commissioner, Joseph Simbakalia Statoil Company has launched a business competition dubbed ‘Heroes of tomorrow' aimed at promoting entrepreneurship among the youth in...
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Tanzania national flag carrier (Air Tanzania) has acquired a 50-seater Canadian CRJ-200 jet aircraft, as part of implementing its ambitious and aggressive expansion plan. Air Tanzania Company...
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TAMONGSCO Secretary General, Benjamin Nkonya A countrywide School Inspection Week kicks off today, with the Tanzania Association of Managers and Owners of Non-Government Schools and Colleges...
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36 people have died and 79 others severly injured in an accident involving 2 passengers' buses and a private car at Butiama in Mara region today around 11 hours. The passengers' buses involved in...
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Hello! brothers and sisters. I am a student persuading BA-Ecomics, but I am always writting different articals, mostly I write about different conundrums and paradoxes of the world. I always...
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Finally, president Jakaya Kikwete says he is ready to meet up with political parties forming UKAWA (the Coalition of Defenders of People's Constitution) to discuss way forward and see that the the...
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Former Tanzania Bureau of Standards Director General at the Kisutu Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday before he was sentenced to a total of three years in jail for abuse of office. Former...
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Tanzania eyes 2 million tourist arrivals by 2017 Tourists at the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. PHOTO | FILE | NATION MEDIA GROUP By The Citizen Reporter and Agencies Posted Monday...
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A girl walks past a painted wall reading "Stop Ebola" in Monrovia, Liberia on Aug. 31, 2014. The first human trial for an investigational Ebola vaccine is set to begin this week. The ongoing...
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Did you know 14 african countries forced by French to pay the above tax until today. Alternatively, google the above subject. After reading ask if Tanzania is not subjected to similar tax and...
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TEN Tanzanian students have won BG Tanzania scholarships to pursue postgraduate students in the oil and gas sector at UK universities. The natural gas investor, BG Tanzania held a predeparture...
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President Jakaya Kikwete speaks to Tanzania Centre for Democracy (TCD) members, who comprise political party leaders, at State House in Dodoma yesterday. Finally, members of Tanzania Centre...
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The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is accelerating and could grow six times larger to infect as many as 20,000 people, the World Health Organization said Thursday. The U.N. health agency unveiled a...
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Kigoma MP Zitto Kabwe has raised the red flag again over the StaOil/Exxon Mobil deal, claiming that it will cost the country a staggering loss of $55 billion (Sh92 trillion) should it go...
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Members of the Constituent Assembly (CA) have complained over the delay of their allowances, saying they have not been paid per diem for 10 days. They said their stay in Dodoma has been made...
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Organised crime gangs in East Africa are generating staggering profits smuggling ivory and rhino horn with impunity, experts say, threatening both an irreplaceable wildlife heritage and key...
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