*(London, 13 Sept 2011) *Aid dependency among 54 of the world’s poorest countries has declined by a third over the last decade, according to a new report from ActionAid. The Real Aid 3 report also reveals that since 2006 there has been an increase in good quality aid – real aid – from 51 per cent to 55 per…
Umoja Newsletter: On 16 August, the United Nations in Tanzania converted some of the assets and infrastructures formerly used for refugees under its Joint Programme 6.1, into social service facilities. The rehabilitated assets were handed over to the local government by the United Nations Development Programme Deputy Country Director Louise Chamberlain at ceremonies in the Kigoma and Ngara Districts…
Shaaban Nzori, Moscow, Russia.: THERE is a serious misconception among earth sciences’ experts (geologists, geophysicists, mining engineers etc) as well as policy-makers especially in our countries, i.e. Third World countries primarily in Africa — Tanzania being a case in point — that green-field exploration for hard-rock minerals is costly and risky. It is indeed true that hydrocarbon (oil &…
TAARIFA KWA VYOMBO VYA HABARI 13 / 09 / 2011 YAH: KUOMBA RADHI KWA NDUGU ZETU WALIOPATWA NA MAAFA YA AJALI YA MELI HUKO ZANZIBAR . Usiku wa kuamkia jumamosi ya tarehe 10 / 09 2011 tukio kubwa na la huzuni lilitokea huko Zanzibar ambapo wananchi wengi walipoteza maisha na wengine kujeruhiwa wakati walipopatwa na ajali ya kuzama kwa…
Embassy of Japan, P. O.Box 2577, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: On September 13, 2011, the official handing over ceremony for a consignment of fertilizer- DAP, supplied under The Food Security Project for Underprivileged Farmers, was held in Dar es Salaam . H.E. Mr. Hiroshi Nakagawa, Ambassador of Japan, and the Honourable Professor Jumanne Maghembe, Minister for Agriculture, Food Security…
Dar es Salaam: Tanzania’s stock market regulator has given Precision Air, the country’s biggest airline, approval for an initial public offering to expand its fleet and fund expansion through new routes. “We have approved Precision Air’s IPO…They have submitted the final documentation requested by us so they can now proceed with the initial public offer based on their own…
SERIKALI YAPATA MSAADA WA FEDHA KUTOKA BENKI YA MAEDNELEO YA AFRIKA (Na Esther Muze na Bebi Kapenya – MAELEZO) 12.9.2011 Serikali ya Tanzania imepokea msaada wa shilingi bilioni 133 kutoka Benki ya Maendeleo ya Afrika (ADB) kwa ajili ya kusaidia miradi kuendeleza sekta ya kilimo na elimu nchini. Msaada huo ulisainiwa jana jijini Dar es Salaam na Waziri wa…
Na Michael Eneza: MOJA ya maeneo ambayo hayatabiriki katika mfumo wowote wa siasa ni kutambua mabadiliko yatakuja kwa kupitia mlango gani, na kwa maana hiyo, yakiwa yameandaliwa na kundi gani katika jamii – au mwisho, yachukue jina gani, yakitaka nini cha msingi. Katika nchi tofauti kumekuwa na kila aina ya mapinduzi, yafikie demokrasia au yaingie katika utawala wa kiimla,…
Na Zitto Kabwe: (Nimeandika makala haya nikiwa katika Benchi la Hospitali ya Mnazi Mmoja hapa Zanzibar. Mniwie radhi kama kuna spelling mistakes kwani nilitaka hisia zangu ziwe as raw as possible -Zitto Zitto and not Zitto a politician). Jana asubuhi tarehe 10 Septemba 2011 Taifa liligubikwa na habari za kushtusha za maafa. Mwanzoni taarifa zilisambaa kwamba zaidi ya watu…
DAR ES SALAAM, Sept 9 (Reuters) – Tanzania said on Friday it had agreed to sell 10,000 tonnes of maize to Kenya immediately from government reserves and offered to export more food to its drought-hit neighbour in the coming weeks. The decision was reached following talks between the leaders of the two countries in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, on…