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Zanzibar Channel: No Patrols Around?

In yesterday’s issue, we reported that smuggling of imported cement from Zanzibar to Tanzania Mainland – across the Zanzibar Channel – was costing the government a whopping 15bn/- or thereabouts every year in taxes not collected Full Story

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YOUTH OF THE WEEK: Bus reservation made easy with 'Safari Yetu'

SOCIETY WATCH: Mount Meru Media Declaration and the future of journalists

YOUTH OF THE WEEK: Only teachers should handle academic matters, not politicians

Kuwaiti surgeons and their Muhimbili National Hospital counterparts conduct an operation at the hospital in Dar es Salaam yesterday. A total of 14 Kuwaiti surgeons under the umbrella of the African Muslim Agency, a Kuwait-based non-profit organisation, are set to operate on 150 patients at a five-day free surgical camp code-named “Hope” at the hospital. This is according to MNH director general Dr Merina Njelekela. (Photo: Khalfan Said)

Information budget speech shocks MPs, media

There was heated debate in the National Assembly yesterday after lawmakers queried various issues ranging from the killing and attack of journalists to delays in passing two key media bills, all of which did not get any mention in the Information, Culture, Youth and Sports minister’s budget speech Full Story

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Tanzania About To Achieve Micro-economic Stability

Tanzania is expected to achieve micro-economic stability in a few months to come following the government move to reduce inflation rate to single digit Full Story

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Mrisho Ngasa Rejoins Yanga

Mrisho Ngasa categorically announced his move to rejoin newly crowned Mainland premier soccer league champions Young Africans in Dar es Salaam yesterday Full Story

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