*First International Conference to Comprehensively Examine the Gender Gap in Agriculture 13-15 March, 2012, NASC Complex, New Delhi, India. *India President H.E. Pratibha Devisingh Patil Expected to Attend ********************************************************************** Next month, hundreds of participants, including ministers, World Food Prize Laureates, farmers, gender experts, leading scientists, community development organizations and innovators will gather in New Delhi, India for the first…

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Dar es Salaam – Africa could become a powerhouse in coffee production – including ‘gourmet’ or specialty coffee – with potentially huge benefits to smallholder farmers, according to a taskforce of agricultural scientists meeting in Ethiopia last week. Diverse environments and coffee types mean some African countries already have the potential to produce world-class coffee beans. But poor soil…

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(Paris) – UNESCO’s governing executive board should abolish a prize named after and funded by President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea at its upcoming meeting, seven civil society groups said today. The board is set to make a final decision on the fate of the prize at its session scheduled for February 27 to March 10, 2012,…

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Byase Luteke (Business Times): What is supposed to be Tanzania Mainland’s fourth international airport is yet to materialize more than ten years since it started! The Songwe International Airport project construction was initially started in 2001 in line with the government initiative to improve efficiency and safety of air transport in the country. Tanzania Mainland already boasts of three…

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Livingstone, 26 February 2012  : Secretary-General: Ladies and gentlemen, it is a great pleasure to see you as I complete my visit, this very historic, very successful visit to Zambia. This has been very historic visit not because this was a first visit by a Secretary-General of the United Nations to Zambia but because I have seen and experienced…

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Statoil ASA and Exxon Mobil Corp.\’s largest gas discovery off Tanzania may hold crude oil or natural-gas liquids, opening a new “play” in East Africa, Norway\’s biggest oil producer said. Statoil announced on February 17 that the partnership had encountered indications of natural gas in the Zafarani exploration well in the Block 2 licence offshore Tanzania. The logging results…

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Dar es Salaam: TAARIFA KUHUSU UWEPO WA DAWA BANDIA YA KUTIBU UGONJWA WA MALARIA IITWAYO ELOQUINE (Quinine Sulphate 300mg USP). Mamlaka ya Chakula na Dawa (TFDA) ni wakala wa Serikali iliyo chini ya Wizara ya Afya na Ustawi wa Jamii yenye jukumu la kudhibiti ubora, ufanisi na usalama wa vyakula, dawa, vipodozi na vifaa tiba ili kulinda afya ya…

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NAIROBI, Kenya, February 24, 2012/ — Airtel Kenya today announced the introduction of the fastest mobile internet in Kenya with the launch of its 3.75G platform in the country. • First 3.75G network in Kenya• Latest technology, same as that being rolled out in Europe and USA, to offer world-class 3G experience to consumers• 3G capability will allow users…

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This Paper is from Dar es Salaam Merchants Chamber (est, 1942). TITLE; “The Need to have Rent Restriction Legislation After its Repeal in 2005”. Preamble: The repeal was wrong and, six years hence, it is still very much wrong. The thought itself for repeal was wrong. A repeal of Rent Control was as unthinkable as it is for Ewura…

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UN SECRETARY-GENERAL REMARKS TO LONDON CONFERENCE ON SOMALIA. London, 23 February 2012: Thank you, Prime Minister Cameron, for bringing us here at this critical moment and your leadership. We have opened a space for peace and stability in Somalia. It is a small space – but it presents an opportunity we cannot afford to miss. An opportunity to help…

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