By Lilian Msambichaka: Help me! Someone help me please! My child is dying, please someone help me! A woman holds her convulsing son outside a café a few steps from the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS) hospital in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The café is frequented by patients and their family members and MUHAS staff. I…
The Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO), in conjunction with the Tanzanian Ministry of Communications, Science and Technology and the Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority will be holding the sixth annual Connecting Rural Communities Africa Forum in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on 24 – 26 August 2011. With a milieu of ICT organisations such as Ericsson and Helios Towers Nigeria, the event…
Balozi Morwa : Why is Tanzania shilling depreciating- I suspect, among other things is a a loose control from the government on the currency trading in the interbank foreign exchange market (IFEM) as one of great source for the dwindling shilling! There should be an inevitable monitoring of the government on IFEM as some local foreign banks have been…
Geneva, Switzerland, 8 August 2011 – The World Economic Forum has announced that Elsie Kanza, the Personal Assistant (Economic Affairs) to President Jakaya M. Kikwete of Tanzania, is to become the Forum’s new Head of Africa. Kanza will visit Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, later this month in preparation for the 2012 World Economic Forum on Africa. “After six fruitful years…
Geneva, Switzerland, 8 August 2011 – The World Economic Forum has announced that Elsie Kanza, the Personal Assistant (Economic Affairs) to President Jakaya M. Kikwete of Tanzania, is to become the Forum’s new Head of Africa. Kanza will visit Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, later this month in preparation for the 2012 World Economic Forum on Africa. “After six fruitful years…
Mkemimi Mungi, Dar es Salaam: Entrepreneurship entails establishing a business and managing it in order to make profit. Most of the Tanzanians, fortunately, are quite industrious and have positively embraced doing business. They earn their livelihood and that of their children from it. Starting or running a business successfully, however, is not as easy as it sounds. Just like…
Byase Luteke IPP Executive Chairman, Reginald Mengi has made a high spirited call to the Government of Tanzania (GoT) to make Precision Air (PW) the national/flag carrier. Mr. Mengi made this plea at a function where he was the guest of honour at the launching of PW’s brand new ATR72-500 aircraft on 21 September 2010 which took place at…
MOSES MATHEW, MWANZA: Complicated formalities and lack of public education on investment in Tanzania are major impediments that trivialize investment promotion and economic development. Recently the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) in collaboration with the Tanzania Investment Center (TIC) conducted a workshop in Mwanza on an investors survey where participants deprecated existing red tape. Tobias Abwaro, the finance…
Emmanuel D Tayari: During the election time, we always speak ill of politicians and even various policies that they have put forward. Ethics play a great role on how people analyze how politicians have used their roles for personal gain or misconduct. However, firstly let us ask ourselves, what is the relationship between ethics and politics? Ethics and Politics…
Dar eS Salaam: THE Maasai youths have become a trademark of urban security. Wherever you go in most urban centres in Tanzania you will find the man at the gate of an affluent home either a Maasai watchman or a security guard from one of the security companies. This is a sign that there is growing insecurity around today…