THE GUARDIAN | 20th May 13
Police in Iringa were yesterday compelled to use tear gas canisters to disperse petty traders for defying a government order to vacate Mashine Tatu area where they had been doing their businesses illegally.
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THE GUARDIAN | 20th May 13
Hundreds of people yesterday paid their last respects to the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Tanzania Heart Institute, the late Dr Ferdinand Masau, who died on Thursday of malaria related complications.
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THE GUARDIAN | 20th May 13
At least 21 motorcycles worth 125,833,375/- have been handed over to health centres in four regions through Tunajali HIV-Care, treatment and support programme.
The regions which received the support are Morogoro, Singida, Iringa and Njombe.
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THE GUARDIAN | 20th May 13
The World Bank has advised the government to prepare new statistics of people living below poverty line so that it can have the actual number of needy persons when allocating funds to support the group.
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THE GUARDIAN | 20th May 13
The zonal Smart Partnership Dialogue meetings which have just ended in Tanzania Mainland and Zanzibar have registered much success.
This is reflected in the huge number of participants and the rich contributions they presented during the meetings aimed at fostering the country’s development.
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THE GUARDIAN | 20th May 13
The Prevention and Combating of Corruption Bureau (PCCB) has warned teachers against accepting gifts from parents and guardians because the practice could lead to bribery.
The warning was made at the weekend by a PCCB training officer for Ilala municipality Christina Temba during a two-day capacity building seminar for primary schools teachers on proper use of government funds.
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THE GUARDIAN | 20th May 13
The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) through the World Heritage Centre has given a go-ahead for the Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority to improve its main road passing through the world famous tourist attraction.
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THE GUARDIAN | 20th May 13
The Legal and Human Rights Centre (LHRC) has urged journalists to use their profession to restore brotherhood and avoid sowing seeds of discord in the country.
The call was made in Dar es Salaam at the weekend at a training conducted by the LHRC in collaboration with the European Union (EU) to 49 journalists as part of the festivities to mark the European Union Week.
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GUARDIAN ON SUNDAY | 19th May 13
Members of Parliaments yesterday cautioned the government against what they called ‘a rush’ to lucrative gas deal with multinationals, saying such hurry is what cost the country billions of dollars in 1990s when the State signed bogus deals with foreign mining companies.
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GUARDIAN ON SUNDAY | 19th May 13
President Jakaya Kikwete has expressed regret that some locals were in the forefront in terrorism activities, which jeopardize the country’s peace and tranquility.
It was even sad to learn that such locals have been collaborating with foreigners in carrying out the illegal acts, said the head of state.
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GUARDIAN ON SUNDAY | 19th May 13
Regional governments have on many occasions trumpeted their preparedness to handle the consequences of natural calamities like earthquakes, floods, fires and storms.
Various departments, ministries and other government organs have been put in place with the specific mandate of handling the aftermaths of disasters.
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GUARDIAN ON SUNDAY | 19th May 13
Muslims in Dodoma have refuted claims by Kilindi MP (CCM) Beatrice Shelukindo that their mosque located on street number seven in the municipality is used as a terrorist training ground.
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GUARDIAN ON SUNDAY | 19th May 13
Traders in Mara Region have complained over police officers’ persistent illegal practice of selling alcoholic drinks to the public in general offered to them by the government at subsidized prices.
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GUARDIAN ON SUNDAY | 19th May 13
Tourist attractions existing in Kagera Region and those available in the southern circuit will be well known in the near future if the government takes serious measures to promote those tourist attractions in the European market, a tourism operator from Germany has declared.
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GUARDIAN ON SUNDAY | 19th May 13
Directors of Criminal Investigation (DCIs) from African countries were on Friday told that better use of joint training operations was major tool of combating crimes.
Tanzania’s DCI Robert Manumba, addressing DCIs from 25 African countries, said joint operators could curb crimes like acts of terrorism and illegal immigration in East and South African countries.
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GUARDIAN ON SUNDAY | 19th May 13
The East Africa Employees Organization and East Africa Business Council on Friday launched a report on common market implementation on free movement of workers.
The report analyses the status of ’actualization’ of the provision stated in the regional common market protocol, which came into force on 1st July 2010.
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GUARDIAN ON SUNDAY | 19th May 13
Tanzania would always be in the fore front in resolving conflicts in the region as this is one important avenue of placing the country on the world’s stage of diplomacy, Foreign Minister Bernard Membe has declared.
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GUARDIAN ON SUNDAY | 19th May 13
Parents and education stakeholders countrywide are anxious to see what action against culprits of mass failures of the 2012 National Form IV Examination. Three weeks ago the government ordered re-grading of the examination results.
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GUARDIAN ON SUNDAY | 19th May 13
Two European entities have teamed-up to implement a drive aimed at empowering coastal communities on Tanzania’s southern belt of the Indian Ocean to govern local fisheries resources so as to improve their socio-economic well being.
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THE GUARDIAN | 18th May 13
Investment relations between China and Tanzania have been cited in elephant poaching in Tanzania, calling for serious government intervention, a report on the elephant poaching crisis has revealed.
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THE GUARDIAN | 18th May 13
The Tanzania Revenue Authority -- TRA) yesterday issued a strong warning to owners of sea vessels, vehicles and residents living along the Indian Ocean coastline -- against tax evasion done some business who import various types of commodities through the shores.
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THE GUARDIAN | 18th May 13
Police in Dar es Salaam yesterday arrested four people found in possession of explosive materials that could be detonated by remote control 10km from the target.
The move comes just two weeks since terrorists bombed the Roman Catholic church in Arusha in which three people were killed and scores injured.
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THE GUARDIAN | 18th May 13
Zanzibar’s First Vice-President Seif Sharif Hamad has pledged that the defective wheat flour impounded at the Malindi port will be destroyed by June 15 this year.
The vice-president said there had been a delay on the removal of the 700-ton consignment of flour due to a tug-of-war between the importer and distributors, saying every side claiming it wasn’t responsible.
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THE GUARDIAN | 18th May 13
Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism Khamis Kagasheki and former Chief Secretary Philemon Luhanjo yesterday led a meeting of stakeholders in the wildlife sector to work out best ways to combat poaching in national parks and game reserves.
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THE GUARDIAN | 18th May 13
Smallholder farmer Peter Mcharo, from Morogoro Region in eastern Tanzania, has a reason to smile. His fields are full of green, healthy maize plants, he has richer soil and he spends less time farming now than he did two years ago.
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THE GUARDIAN | 18th May 13
The Government has set aside Sh 150 billion for the development of the transport sector, giving priority to the Central Railway Line, the Deputy Minister for Transport Dr Charles Tizeba has said.
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THE GUARDIAN | 18th May 13
The government has not enough funds to build the headquarters of newly established district councils, the deputy Minister for Local Government and Regional Administration Agrey Mwanri said in Parliament yesterday.
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THE GUARDIAN | 18th May 13
Industry and Trade minister Dr Abdallah Kigoda on Wednesday dismissed claims by Ilemela MP Highness Kiwia (CHADEMA) that a company in joint venture National Development Corporation (NDC) to generate wind electricity power in Singida region is owned by relatives of CCM MPs.
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THE GUARDIAN | 18th May 13
The European Union Ambassador to Tanzania, Filberto Ceriani Sebregondi has implored media practitioners to be well-informed on human rights issues as well as polishing up their ways of reporting human rights violations.
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THE GUARDIAN | 17th May 13
President Jakaya Kikwete has announced that the government will work with flour millers in rural areas to add nutrients to their produce in an effort to improve villagers’ health.
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THE GUARDIAN | 17th May 13
Eight bidders have shown interest in investing in Dar es Salaam commuter train services and would submit their proposals later this month, Parliament was informed here yesterday
Transport minister Dr Harrison Mwakyembe said that the move is aimed at ensuring the city provides quality services to the public.
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THE GUARDIAN | 17th May 13
Members of the public are given very limited opportunity to scrutinise the country’s mineral industry despite the introduction of new audit mechanisms.
According to the 2013 Resource Governance Index report by the Revenue Watch Institute released in Dar es Salaam yesterday despite the new audit requirements and policies aimed at reducing corruption, the government does not often publish mining contracts or disclose full revenue and production data gains from the sector for public consumption.
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THE GUARDIAN | 17th May 13
The government is at an advanced stage in establishing a new vehicle tracking system in a move to minimise deaths and injuries that occur due to road crashes.
This is after the earlier proposed system was rejected by transporters late last year.
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THE GUARDIAN | 17th May 13
The government has been challenged to be careful when implementing project plans and evaluate experiments besides learning from different failures, in an effort to improve cashewnut farming.
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THE GUARDIAN | 17th May 13
The Arusha office of the Prevention and Combating of Corruption Bureau (PCCB) has arrested ten Arusha City Council officials for allegedly creating ghost civil servants and pocketing their salaries.
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THE GUARDIAN | 17th May 13
The Prime Minister, Mizengo Pinda, yesterday told the National Assembly that the government will take severe measures against those involved in last year’s Form IV exam failures once the probe team completes its work.
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THE GUARDIAN | 17th May 13
The Minister for Industry and Trade, Dr Abdallah Kigoda, has tabled his ministry’s budget estimates for the financial year 2013/2014, promising to create at least 18,004 job opportunities.
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THE GUARDIAN | 17th May 13
Maasai elders from Loliondo in Ngorongoro District and their secretary are in Dar es Salaam where they were demanding to convene with President Jakaya Kikwete over claims that their land has been grabbed by the government.
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THE GUARDIAN | 17th May 13
The Sickle Cell Foundation of Tanzania which drive to set up the first ever Sickle Cell Centre has received a major boost through efforts of a Canadian national, Alan Knight.
Knight led a team of cyclists to participate in 2013 edition of the Tour d’Afrique, the 11,718km bicycle expedition race from Cairo, Egypt, to Cape Town, South Africa to raise USD50, 000 for the sickle cell facility.
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THE GUARDIAN | 16th May 13
The Health and Social Welfare ministry and Medical Stores Department (MSD) have said the government is yet to receive Bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG) vaccines for children, attributing the delay to transport hitches.
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THE GUARDIAN | 16th May 13
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Economy, Industry and Trade has criticised the government for disbursing only 23 percent of the Industry and Trade ministry budget in the ending fiscal year warning that if the trend continues, achieving a middle-economy nation vision would be impossible.
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THE GUARDIAN | 16th May 13
The Tanzania People’s Defence Forces (TPDF) has already deployed 100 soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo for the United Nations peacekeeping mission, a spokesman said in Dar es Salaam on Tuesday.
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THE GUARDIAN | 16th May 13
The Tanzania Editors Forum has suspended indefinitely the membership of the Editor of Mtanzania Jumatano Charles Mullinda following a news article published on his newspaper dated April 17 this year which did not abide by professional ethics.
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THE GUARDIAN | 16th May 13
President Jakaya Kikwete has ordered all food processing industries from now on to start adding vitamin A in their products to implement the country’s campaign on nutrition for the betterment of pregnant women, children and the entire public.
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THE GUARDIAN | 16th May 13
IPP Executive Dr Chairman Reginald Mengi yesterday cautioned human rights defenders against treating the entire police force as rotten bearing in mind it is only few unethical individuals, who tarnish the good image of the force.
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THE GUARDIAN | 16th May 13
Dar es salaam Region had a total of 5,580 children living and working on the streets as of June 2012, Health and Social Welfare deputy minister Dr Seif Rashid revealed before the House yesterday.
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THE GUARDIAN | 16th May 13
The judiciary has a shortage of 1,600 primary and district court magistrates, the National Assembly was told yesterday.
Justice and Constitutional Affairs Deputy minister Angela Kairuki said the government was aware of the problem and that is why from last year it came up with a programme to hire 300 magistrates yearly.
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THE GUARDIAN | 16th May 13
The Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) has warned traders and owners of transport facilities against engaging in smuggling of goods along the Indian Ocean coast, saying stringent measures including confiscation of property will be taken against the culprits.
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THE GUARDIAN | 16th May 13
The government has reaffirmed its dedication to develop the agricultural sector in an effort to attain and secure sustainable development.
President Jakaya Kikwete made the assertion to that end while addressing the Southern African Confederation of Agricultural Unions (SACAU) Regional Conference held on Tuesday in Dar es Salaam.
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THE GUARDIAN | 15th May 13
Media stakeholders yesterday called for the restructuring of the police force to minimise violence by some of its members against innocent citizens.
They said the legislation under which the force was founded is both colonial and undermines people’s freedom.
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THE GUARDIAN | 15th May 13
Tanzania Constitutional Forum (TCF) yesterday announced plans to file an injunction with the High Court to stop the Constitutional Review Commission from any further writing of the constitution until it corrects the shortfalls recorded in previous stages.
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THE GUARDIAN | 15th May 13
The Arusha based Natural History Museum is scheduled to open a permanent wildlife photograph exhibition this year themed ‘The wildlife: The Living God of Tanzania’ whose opening date is yet to be announced.
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THE GUARDIAN | 15th May 13
Former Prime Minister Edward Lowasa will tomorrow launch an academic publication titled “Economic Crisis of 2010 and beyond” which provides analysis and perspectives in the Tanzanian context.
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THE GUARDIAN | 15th May 13
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Infrastructure has urged the Ministry of Works to take punitive action against Tanzania National Road Agency (Tanroad) officials embezzling public funds.
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THE GUARDIAN | 15th May 13
The government through the National Frozen and Refrigerated Food Association (NFRA) is preparing an investment plan which, among other things, will identify specific areas suitable for the construction of food reserve facilities in Kigoma Region as per total production of crops across the country.
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THE GUARDIAN | 15th May 13
Save the Children’s Annual State of the World Mothers report released this month, has ranked Tanzania 10th among countries with the highest number of first day deaths in the world and third in Africa, only below Nigeria and DRC but in East Africa, she has the highest number of children who die a day after birth.
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THE GUARDIAN | 15th May 13
Tanzania Food and Nutrition Centre (TFNC) has outlined strategies to fight malnutrition, which has been a major challenge in the country.
Speaking to journalists at the weekend Dr Sabas Kimboka, director for community health and nutrition with TFNC said acute malnutrition (SAM) is rampant in Tanzania and without proper plans and strategies the problem will continue to hit most people.
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THE GUARDIAN | 15th May 13
Government yesterday opened doors for negotiations with big energy companies as part of its efforts to restructure and transform the monopoly state-run Tanzania Electric Supply Company (Tanesco).
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THE GUARDIAN | 15th May 13
A Long serving Tanzanian public servant and a renowned investment expert, Emmanuel ole Naiko has been appointed as an honorary consul of Botswana to Tanzania with residence in Dar es Salaam.
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THE GUARDIAN | 14th May 13
Four suspects -- three Emirati and a Saudi -- who were linked to the May 5 bombing of a church in Arusha were yesterday freed after investigations found that they weren’t involved in the incident.
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THE GUARDIAN | 14th May 13
The government has been counselled to establish district level metering network zones in order to effectively monitor water use and address the prevalent water loss through leakages and the subsequent financial losses.
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THE GUARDIAN | 14th May 13
Works minister John Pombe Magufuli yesterday tabled his budget estimates, requesting the National Assembly to approve at least 1.22tn/- for the 2013/2014 financial year of which most of the money will go for development projects.
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THE GUARDIAN | 14th May 13
Tanzania faces an acute shortage of BCG vaccine administered to children at birth, posing a health risk to the newborns as they may contract severe forms of childhood tuberculosis.
Several parents with newborns have been looking for the vaccine in a number of hospitals without any success.
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THE GUARDIAN | 14th May 13
African governments have been urged to support women farmers so that the continent can achieve sustainable social economic development.
Giving a keynote address at the first day of Southern African Confederation of Agricultural Unions (SACAU) Regional Conference yesterday in Dar es Salaam, the Nigerian Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr Akinwumi Adesina, said as governments and other stakeholders support farmers, they must recognise that the majority of African farmers are women.
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THE GUARDIAN | 14th May 13
The government is intending to lower down the cost of land survey from the current 70,000/- to 48,000/- (a decrease of 40.1 pct.
Lands, Housing and Human Settlements minister Prof Anna Tibaijuka said yesterday that the government’s intention is to do this after it had introduced a technological network system for land marking survey known as TAREF2011 to be used in the entire country.
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THE GUARDIAN | 14th May 13
Association of Local Government Authorities of Tanzania (ALAT) is receiving training from the Tanzania Bureau of Standard (TBS) to formularise by-laws that will be applied in the fight against substandard goods in their localities.
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THE GUARDIAN | 14th May 13
The Aga Khan University (AKU) recently opened a modern health centre in Arusha that is tasked with offering high quality services an objective strongly seconded by local government officials in the region.
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THE GUARDIAN | 14th May 13
Tanzanian women have been urged to be creative and use the available opportunities to become successful entrepreneurs.
“There’s an awakening of women everywhere in the country.
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THE GUARDIAN | 14th May 13
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and Health Promotion Tanzania (HDT) have challenged President Jakaya Kikwete’s commitment to reach 6.6 million women with contraceptives by 2015.
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THE GUARDIAN | 13th May 13
Public opinion remains sharply divided on whether to reintroduce corporal punishment in schools, particularly following the massive failures in last year’s national Form IV examinations.
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THE GUARDIAN | 13th May 13
The government loses close to 2trn/- annually (about 10 percent of its budget) due to the ineffective and inefficient taxation system it employs, members of civil society organizations and faith based organizations have said.
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THE GUARDIAN | 13th May 13
The government plans to allocate Information and Communication Technology (ICT) experts in rural areas to give room to rural residents to learn the new technology more and make them aware of its use.
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THE GUARDIAN | 13th May 13
Work minister Dr. John Magufuli is today expected to present his ministry’s budget estimates for the 2013/14 financial year in the National Assembly which resumes its session after two days of rest.
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THE GUARDIAN | 13th May 13
A new food and nutrition policy is on the cards to fight malnutrition in the country, it has been disclosed.
“The process of drafting the policy has reached an advanced stage,” Acting Managing Director of the Tanzania Food and Nutrition Centre (TFNC) Dr Faith Magambo told this paper at the weekend.
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THE GUARDIAN | 13th May 13
Women entrepreneurs in the country stand a better chance of excelling in business if they are confident and innovative.
This was said by the Dare to Dream Foundation Chief Executive Officer Emelda Mwamanga during the 5th Vodacom Economic Women conference and Business Expo held in Dar es Salaam at the weekend.
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THE GUARDIAN | 13th May 13
President Jakaya Kikwete will today officiate at the beginning of ‘Social Security Week’ here aimed at ensuring that the right information on quality social security services reach the majority Tanzanians.
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THE GUARDIAN | 13th May 13
The Southern Highlands zone residents were yesterday challenged to adopt science and technology methods in agriculture to add value to their crops.
The Minister of State Prime Minister’s Office (Policy Coordination and Parliamentary Affairs), William Lukuvi, said here that application of science and technology in agriculture could bring tangible results to farmers.
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THE GUARDIAN | 13th May 13
Tanzania Zambia Railway Authority (Tazara) has attributed the role played by Chinese-Africa People's Friendship to the strengthening and improvement of the railway to assuring its continued contribution to the economies of the two countries.
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THE GUARDIAN | 13th May 13
Tanzania is hosting a three-day Southern African Confederation of Agricultural Unions (SACAU) Regional Conference that commences today in Dar es Salaam.
Themed ‘Financing African Agriculture’ the conference is organized by the Agricultural Council of Tanzania (ACT) in collaboration with SACAU and has brought among other delegates the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development from Nigeria, Dr Akinwunmi Ayo Adesina .
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THE GUARDIAN | 12th May 13
Dar es Salaam residents, Christian believers in particular, were yesterday subjected to a state of panic and fear after news broke out that a bomb had exploded at a church building at Kunduchi area, on the outskirts of the city.
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THE GUARDIAN | 12th May 13
New details emerged yesterday of shady deals at the Mirerani Tanzania mining area, where the government says only 119 of the 597-odd companies registered to operate have reported back over the past six years.
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THE GUARDIAN | 12th May 13
If current projections hold, Tanzania will be home to over 130m citizens -- the size of the Nigerian population today – within the next 37 short years, The Guardian on Sunday can report.
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THE GUARDIAN | 12th May 13
President Dr Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete will tomorrow lead national and international dignitaries in the inauguration of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) science building in Dar es Salaam.
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THE GUARDIAN | 12th May 13
The Wildlife Division of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism has trapped a total of 893,000 black Indian crows in Dar es Salaam during a campaign in the past three years.
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THE GUARDIAN | 12th May 13
The Zanzibar government has vowed to conduct a crackdown on all land title deeds obtained illegally.
Announcing the campaign, Second Vice President Ambassador Seif Ali Iddi said the government decided to act on the sensitive matter after realizing that investments on the Amaan special industrial area in the Isles were being slowed down as some individuals had encroached and took possession of plots of land in the zone.
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THE GUARDIAN | 12th May 13
Eventually the government has formed a special committee to scrutinize the Medical Store Department (MSD) arrears put at Sh 52billlion, which the department seeks from the government, so as to pay it.
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THE GUARDIAN | 12th May 13
Tanzania has chance to become a hub of science and technology if favourable policies are in place to enable, support and enhance technological entrepreneurship among its talented youth.
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THE GUARDIAN | 12th May 13
Hadija Maulid, a widow with grandchildren, recounts the way she was harassed because of her inability to read and write, when she was attending short courses for training in farming at Naliendele Agricultural Research Institute, Mtwara region late last year.
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THE GUARDIAN | 12th May 13
Aga Khan University (AKU) mid this week officially opened the Aga Khan Health Centre in Arusha region to offer high quality health care services
Located on Seth Benjamin Street in the central business district, the health centre is a modern facility that offers health services, including physician consultations, a wide range of diagnostic services including a CT scanner, ultra sound, a modern laboratory and pharmacy.
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THE GUARDIAN | 11th May 13
Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda yesterday led thousands of Arusha residents in the burial of three people who died in the fatal Catholic Church bombing incident, which occurred last Sunday.
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THE GUARDIAN | 11th May 13
The leaders of Africa, the world’s poorest continent in terms of economy but richly endowed in natural resources are facing the devil’s choice: to either invest their natural resource revenue in people in order to generate jobs and opportunities for millions now and in future -- or squander those resources – and allow lack of jobs and inequality to take root.
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THE GUARDIAN | 11th May 13
The opposition camp in Parliament yesterday lashed at government failure to curb the influx of street children in the country’s urban centres.
Contributing to 2013/14 budget estimates for the Ministry of Social Development, Gender and Children -- tabled in Parliament currently sitting in Dodoma -- the opposition camp said increasing inflows of street children was creating a class of “wayward” kids who cannot take their rightful place in the society.
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THE GUARDIAN | 11th May 13
Police in Tarime district have unintentionally killed a six-year old primary school child after a weapon possessed by a police officer accidently opened fire.
Deus Jackob (6) who was schooling at Rebu Primary School, in Tarime District, Mara Region was killed on Thursday as police were in the process of arresting criminals.
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THE GUARDIAN | 11th May 13
The Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) has defended its arrangement to tax imported items to Tanzania Mainland through Zanzibar despite long standing complaints on the arrangement, regarded as double taxation.
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THE GUARDIAN | 11th May 13
Legislator Lediana Mg’ong’o (Special Seats-CCM) has demanded that government restore Sh. 2 billion it obtained from the Women Development Fund (WDF)so that it could be used to empower women, and boost their investments.
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THE GUARDIAN | 11th May 13
As some regions in the country face food shortages, the government is admitting that most food aid offered does not reach the targeted persons, thus hunger continues in some villages.
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THE GUARDIAN | 11th May 13
As the wave of fraudulent estate agents is on the rise in the country, the government has started working on reviewing legislation on auctioneers in a bid to weed the fraudsters.
The revelation was made in Parliament yesterday by the deputy minister for Finance, Saada Salum Mkuya when responding to a supplementary question raised Iddi Mohamed Azzan (Kinondoni- CCM) who wanted to know the government’s stance on unscrupulous estate agents.
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THE GUARDIAN | 11th May 13
The anti-retroviral ARVs being sold in Tanzania are genuine and that no fake drugs are in circulation, the Minister for Health and Social Services Dr Hussein Mwinyi clarified in Parliament in Dodoma on Thursday.
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THE GUARDIAN | 11th May 13
The High Court of Tanzania has convicted 13 people to death sentences after finding them guilty of murder they committed at different times against people with albinism.
The ruling of the High Court follows police investigations that led to the arrests of the culprits, the Minister for Home Affairs Dr Emmanuel Nchimbi told the Parliament on Tuesday this week.
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THE GUARDIAN | 10th May 13
The Tanzania Electric Supply Company (Tanesco) has confirmed that it has received 3,000 poles from some of the companies it awarded tenders.
This will enable customers who had applied for power since January this year to be connected and get power.
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