Forget payments technology, Tanzanians still prefer to send cash by bus transport

By Yakobe Chiwambo (www.businesstimes.co.tz) DESPITE the rapid growth of telecommunication technologies the world over in the area of money transfers, many Tanzanians still prefer to send money to relatives, friends and other dependents by passenger bus countrywide – the ready availability of other methods such as bank transfers, money grams/Western Union and mobile telephony transfer services notwithstanding! The reason(s)…

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CTO Ventures to Launch Borderless Commonwealth Roaming Platform

LONDON, August 15, 2011 – The inaugural meeting of the Board of Directors of the CTO Ventures endorsed the launch of a low-cost `borderless Commonwealth’ mobile data roaming service for its member countries and beyond. CTO Ventures is a commercial subsidiary of the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation initiated to develop, expand and enhance CTO’s existing operations to facilitate transactional business…

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Near Record High Food Prices Keep Poorest People on the Edge

WASHINGTON, August 15, 2011−Global food prices are at high levels and when combined with continued volatility, put the poorest people in the developing world at continued risk, according to the World Bank Group’s Food Price Watch released today. While the emergency in the Horn of Africa was triggered by prolonged droughts, especially in areas struggling with conflict and internal…

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Tanzania mobile users up 20 pct in 2010, investment seen falling

DAR ES SALAAM, Aug 14 (Reuters) – Tanzania’s mobile phone subscribers rose 20 percent to 21 million last year, but low tariffs due to a vicious price war are expected to diminish the appetite for investment in the telecoms sector, industry officials said. East Africa’s second biggest economy’s communications sector has grown at an average annual rate of nearly…

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MABONDIA KUZIPIGA SEPTEMBA 4 MWANANYAMALA

MABONDIA wa ngumi za kulipwa Ramadhan Shauri na Bakari Dunda wataoneshana kazi katika pambano lisili la ubingwa litakalofanyika Septemba 4 mwaka huu. Pambano hilo ambalo litakuwa la raundi nane litasindikizwa na burudani kutoka katika kundi la \’Makhirikhiri wa bongo\’ huku likitanguliwa na mapambano manne ya utangulizi ambapo yatafanyika katika ukumbi wa CCM Mwinjuma wa Mwananyamala Dar es Salaam. Akizungumza…

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Hunger is killing our people, please help

Comrade, Once again, millions of African citizens face famine and the destruction of their livelihoods. At this moment, 12 million men, women and children in Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia are in dire need of food, clean water and basic sanitation. Tens of thousands of Somali children have died in the last 90 days and over 500,000 are now at…

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