THE GUARDIAN | 17th Jun 13
After the deadly bomb attack at a Chama Cha Demokrasia na Maendeleo (Chadema) rally in Arusha City on Saturday, the IGP says police will conduct a special countrywide operation aimed at arresting individuals behind the attack as well as those financing terrorist activities.
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THE GUARDIAN | 17th Jun 13
President Jakaya Kikwete and British Prime Minister David Cameron have announced new Tanzania/G8 Partnerships on Land Transparency and Extractives Transparency, according to the British High Commission in Dar es Salaam.
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THE GUARDIAN | 17th Jun 13
Since its endorsement by African Heads of State in Maputo in 2003, the Comprehensive African Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) process continues to gain momentum in advancing agricultural reforms on the continent.
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THE GUARDIAN | 17th Jun 13
Tunajali programme in collaboration with Imarisha project has conducted a one-week training on market analysis to empower Savings and Internal Lending Communities (SILC) on how to manage their businesses.
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THE GUARDIAN | 17th Jun 13
The East African Community (EAC) has described the just-concluded second two-day Agri-Business Expo as a timely and relevant initiative that will have great impact by building capacity for improved performance in agricultural production and creating business to business linkages.
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THE GUARDIAN | 17th Jun 13
The government has been urged to work in cooperation with non government organizations to reduce the challenges facing children and abusive of their rights.
The remarks were made at the weekend in Dar es Salaam by World Vision Tanzania Child Protection and Advocacy Manager Esther Mongi at a one-day children’s dialogue that was organized in collaboration with other non government organizations.
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THE GUARDIAN | 17th Jun 13
Tanzania Commission for Universities (TCU) has announced that Tanzania International University (TIU) is not qualified to provide bachelor degree programs.
The statement was made by TCU information officer Edward Mkapu during a news conference held over the weekend in Dar es Salaam.
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THE GUARDIAN | 17th Jun 13
Tanzania Commission for AIDS (TACAIDS) in collaboration with UNICEF and two local radio stations launched drama series popularly known as ‘Shuga Radio’ on Friday.
The drama series targets adolescents and young people in Tanzania with key messages on HIV/Aids.
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GUARDIAN ON SUNDAY | 16th Jun 13
At least four people including one child were feared dead and over 40 people injured after terrorists threw a bomb at a public rally organized by the opposition Chadema at suburban Soweto in Arusha region yesterday.
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GUARDIAN ON SUNDAY | 16th Jun 13
The Consolidated Holding Corporation(CHC) has revealed serious blunders committed by the government during the privatization, which cost the nation trillions of shillings.
The revelation comes at a time when CHC has only 12 months left before its ends its tenure.
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GUARDIAN ON SUNDAY | 16th Jun 13
Forest experts and researchers from public and private institutions have likened the current swift forest deforestation to a shopkeeper who is eating the capital of his or her own shop.
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GUARDIAN ON SUNDAY | 16th Jun 13
The media will need to play a critical role if regional integration is to move faster and succeed in bringing benefits to all citizens of the region.
It is no longer enough for the media to simply play a secondary role of occasionally reporting about major events by organs of the East African Community and related agencies.
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GUARDIAN ON SUNDAY | 16th Jun 13
The East African Community (EAC) Observer Team is meeting in Moshi to evaluate Kenya general polls and prepare a report for the EAC Council of Ministers for onward submission to the Heads State Summit.
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GUARDIAN ON SUNDAY | 16th Jun 13
The presence of a sophisticated network of rich people and fear by the public to engage in the practice of ‘naming and shaming’ of individuals engaging in poaching fuel illegal hunting in the country, the government has admitted.
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THE GUARDIAN | 15th Jun 13
A section of lawmakers yesterday faulted the Sh18.2 trillion budget ($11 billion) budget, saying it isn’t pro-poor as claimed, adding that it ignores the plight of the common man.
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THE GUARDIAN | 15th Jun 13
The Julius Nyerere international Airport (JNIA), now facing passenger congestion, is set for a major expansion that would see construction of a third terminal, following signing of a contract nearly two months ago with BAAM – an international company based in the Netherlands.
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THE GUARDIAN | 15th Jun 13
The Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) has declared it will inspect all imports before being released from the from the port, a move aimed at reviewing the quantity, type, value of products as well verify taxes that are supposed to be paid.
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THE GUARDIAN | 15th Jun 13
The government has admitted that it still faces serious challenges in financing development projects through domestic revenue, compelling it to borrow heavily domestically and internationally.
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THE GUARDIAN | 15th Jun 13
The White House has cancelled a safari that US President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle were due to take in Tanzania over budgetary concerns, The Washington Post reported Thursday.
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THE GUARDIAN | 15th Jun 13
The National Assembly Speaker Anne Makinda said the new budget session of Parliament which started in April this year will help to prevent higher learning students’ strikes.
In an interview on the precincts of a meeting of parliamentary speakers from the Africa zone of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA), the speaker said that students in various higher learning institutions were conducting demonstration demanding their loans.
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THE GUARDIAN | 15th Jun 13
Tanzania anti-tobacco use activists are disappointed with the government decision to expand cultivation of the crop to supply enough tobacco for the country’s newly found market in China.
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THE GUARDIAN | 15th Jun 13
A preparatory meeting of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) held a session in Dar es Salaam yesterday to discuss strategies to bring the member states to achieve unity and speak in one voice over some burning issues on the umbrella body.
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THE GUARDIAN | 15th Jun 13
Scientists from southern, eastern and central Africa (SEC) have came up with the new unique method of DNA fingerprinting for cassava identification and agro-biodiversity evaluation as a strategy in conserving local cassava varieties, known as landraces.
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THE GUARDIAN | 14th Jun 13
The government has pledged to review tax exemptions which have been costing the nation trillions of shillings, retarding social and economic development.
Tabling the 2013/2014 budget estimates in Dodoma yesterday, the Minister for Finance William Mgimwa said the move was among strategies aimed at raising more revenue.
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THE GUARDIAN | 14th Jun 13
The government has increased the annual motor vehicle license fee on vehicles with effect from the coming financial year.
According to Finance Minister William Mgimwa the annual license fee for motor vehicles whose engine capacity was between 501cc and 1500cc has been raised from 100,000/- to 150,000/-, while for for those with engine capacity of 1501cc and 2500cc will be charged 200,000/- instead of 200,000/-.
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THE GUARDIAN | 14th Jun 13
Highly anticipated Pay-As-You-Earn (PAYE) tax reduction in the coming financial year (2013/2014) has been effected with the government announcing a reduction of the rate from 14 per cent to 13.
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THE GUARDIAN | 14th Jun 13
Tanzania's economy grew by 6.9 per cent last year, the highest among five East African Community member countries.
It was an improvement on the 6.4 per cent growth recorded in 2011.
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THE GUARDIAN | 14th Jun 13
The government has agreed to disburse 513bn/- additional funds to various votes out of 654.21bn/- requested by the Budget Committee, its Chairman Andrew Chenge has said.
He was tabling the Committee report to the National Assembly highlighting the various issues submitted to it by sectoral committees for the 2013/2014 budget.
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THE GUARDIAN | 14th Jun 13
The 18.249trn/- budget proposals for 2013/2014 financial year unveiled by Finance Minister Dr William Mgimwa yesterday, reflect an increase of 3.057trn/- (about 17percent) when compared to the current one.
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THE GUARDIAN | 14th Jun 13
Conducted last year, the Tanzania National Population Census results that are still being analysed are expected to show positive increase in Tanzania’s literacy rate thanks to efforts taken by the government since 2002 to reduce illiteracy in the country through offering adult education.
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THE GUARDIAN | 14th Jun 13
Three journalists from IPP Media outlets yesterday emerged winners in 2012 Tanzania National Parks (TANAPA) awards aimed at fighting poaching in the national parks as well as publicising tourist attractions in the country.
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THE GUARDIAN | 14th Jun 13
The Tanzania Roads Agency (TANROADS) intends to build a modern weighbridge two kilometres from Horohoro, on the Tanzania –Kenya border post in a bid to control overload of vehicles plying the newly constructed Tanga –Horohoro highway.
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THE GUARDIAN | 14th Jun 13
Former US President George W. Bush and his wife Laura Bush are expected to host a summit on the crucial role of African first ladies in promoting women’s empowerment to be held in Dar es Salaam on July 2 and 3 this year.
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THE GUARDIAN | 13th Jun 13
Tanzania Nurses and Midwives Council (TNMC) has ordered individuals and institutions operating midwifery and nursing training without permanent registration to close down immediately.
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THE GUARDIAN | 13th Jun 13
Former Attorney General Judge Mark Bomani has said he supports the proposed three-tier government in the Constitution draft, adding that if endorsed, the structure would reduce the Union’s current problems.
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THE GUARDIAN | 13th Jun 13
It has been revealed that Tanzania is among 20 countries in the world that have been practising early marriages.
Speaking during a two-day East African regional conference on child marriage, yesterday in Dar es Salaam, the Director of Gender, Children and Social Development, in the ministry of Community Development, Gender and Children, Tukae Njiku, said majority of women who got into early marriage have been found to be infected with HIV/Aids.
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THE GUARDIAN | 13th Jun 13
Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has described Tanzania’s founding fathers Dr Julius Nyerere and Sheikh Abeid Karume as visionary East African leaders and wise thinkers who gave up their country’s sovereignty to unite the people for a common objective.
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THE GUARDIAN | 13th Jun 13
Finance Minister William Mgimwa is set to table the government budget for the 2013/2014 financial year today in Parliament as Tanzanians are eager to know what is contained in the document.
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THE GUARDIAN | 13th Jun 13
Speaker of the National Assembly, Anne Makinda has warned that phase three of Tanzania Social Action Fund (TASAF)’s poverty eradication plan is ‘extremely delicate’ and may even fail to meet intended goals.
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THE GUARDIAN | 13th Jun 13
The government has warned and threatened to take punitive measures against people operating unregistered mobile clinics.
The Minister of Health and Social Welfare Dr Hussein Mwinyi sounded the warning here yesterday when responding to a supplementary question by the Mkanyageni MP Mohamed Mnyaa (CUF).
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THE GUARDIAN | 13th Jun 13
The government has been urged to recognise the best performing students by awarding them prizes to encourage them to work even harder and motivate others to emulate them.
The call was made over the weekend in Dar es Salaam by this year’s Form Six best performed student countrywide, Erick Robert from Tusiime secondary school.
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THE GUARDIAN | 13th Jun 13
Police in Dar es Salaam is detaining a housekeeper, one Philemon Laiza (27) a Kenyan and resident of Mikocheni B in the City for allegedly raping, brutally killing and then damping a fellow housekeeper Perpetua Mainab (30) who also a Kenyan, in a sewer.
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THE GUARDIAN | 13th Jun 13
When ships send a distress signal to the German frigate (medium size warship) FGS Augsberg, pirates in the vicinity scamper away leaving crew and property safe, for the moment.
It is this fear instilling warship that has docked on berth 2 of the Dar es Salaam port and on Monday night held on board farewell event for the outgoing German ambassador Klaus Peter-Brandes.
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THE GUARDIAN | 12th Jun 13
The Chairperson of the Constitutional Review Commission (CRC) Judge Joseph Sinde Warioba has warned that clinging to the current governance system for the sake of saving costs might see the Union breaking up in the near future.
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THE GUARDIAN | 12th Jun 13
Wilfred Lwakatare, Chama cha Demokrasia na Maendeleo (Chadema) Defence and Security Director yesterday walked out of custody leaving behind his co-accused Ludovick Joseph who failed to meet his bail conditions.
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THE GUARDIAN | 12th Jun 13
A two-day East Africa regional conference on the problem of child marriages in Tanzania opens in Dar es Salaam today, with Constitutional and Legal Affairs deputy minister Angela Kairuki.
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THE GUARDIAN | 12th Jun 13
African Child festival will be held on Sunday June 16 (Day of the African Child)at the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS) grounds and the African Child Trust is expected to bring together more than 500 children from different areas including orphanage centres.
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THE GUARDIAN | 12th Jun 13
Former Chief Secretary (CS) Timothy Apiyo has died at Millpark Hospital, Johannesburg South Africa where he was being treated.
Apiyo who served under Presidents Nyerere and Mwinyi died on Monday.
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THE GUARDIAN | 12th Jun 13
At least 200 Tanzanians have been trained in the oil and gas sector through a fund paid by companies exploring the resources in the country as per pact known as Production Sharing Agreement (PSA).
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THE GUARDIAN | 12th Jun 13
The Internal Auditor Generals's Office has decried the serious shortage of internal auditors in the councils that is leading to the poor management of the country’s resources.
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THE GUARDIAN | 12th Jun 13
The International Labour Organisation (ILO), supported by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), has launched an initiative to reach 5 million workers with Voluntary and confidential HIV Counselling and Testing (VCT@WORK) by 2015.
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THE GUARDIAN | 12th Jun 13
The Swiss-based Friends of Serengeti organisation has dished-out assorted items worth 35m/-, towards intensifying the fight against poaching in the country’s national parks.
The facilities were handed over to the director general of the Tanzania National Parks Allan Kijazi.
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THE GUARDIAN | 12th Jun 13
Small Industries Development Organisation (SIDO) has trained about 20 small and medium entrepreneurs engaging in food processing, textile and handcraft making in information and communications technology (ICT).
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THE GUARDIAN | 11th Jun 13
A New shipment of the TB vaccine Bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG) was received last week and is already in distribution by the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare to regions that had earlier reported a dire shortage following the failure of some suppliers to deliver ordered consignments.
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THE GUARDIAN | 11th Jun 13
The Cashewnut Board of Tanzania (CBT) and the Cashewnut Industry Development Trust Fund (CIDF) have set aside 10bn/- to boost cashewnut processing for export.
The decision will be well received by farmers who have long complained over the low prices they get when selling the crop in raw form.
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THE GUARDIAN | 11th Jun 13
Tanzania National Reinsurance Corporation Limited (TAN-RE) in collaboration with other Insurance Companies in the country has agreed to set up an ‘Insurance Pool’, to cover risks that might occur in oil and gas extraction that the country is expecting to start soon.
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THE GUARDIAN | 11th Jun 13
The Tanzania Regulatory Authority (TCRA) has issued a compliance order to Star Television and Star Media to restore TV channels which were withdrawn by the multiplex operator, saying the move violated the Digital Broadcasting Regulations and license orders.
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THE GUARDIAN | 11th Jun 13
Some Lawmakers yesterday criticised the amendment of a section in the Local Government (Elections) Act to allow the extension of time for hearing petitions for councillors saying the government should first address causes of the delays.
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THE GUARDIAN | 11th Jun 13
The United States Embassy in Tanzania has described President Barack Obama’s visit to the country, as aimed at demonstrating the importance US attached to deepening ties with Africa.
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THE GUARDIAN | 11th Jun 13
People caught undertaking any activity, including fishing in forest reserves in the country will be punished, the government warned yesterday.
The deputy minister of Natural Resources and Tourism, Lazaro Nyalandu issued the warning when responding to a question by Muhambwe legislator, Felix Mkosamali (NCCR-Mageuzi).
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THE GUARDIAN | 11th Jun 13
The Ministry of Home Affairs has formed a task force under the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to investigate and recommend the best way to address the challenge of congestion in the country’s prisons and remand homes.
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THE GUARDIAN | 11th Jun 13
Pensioners have blamed the government for subjecting them to harsh living conditions.
Several pensioners who had worked for Tanzania Railways Corporation (TRC) who talked to The Guardian at the weekend said the minimum pension that was reviewed from 20,000/- to 50,000/- with effect from July 1, 2009, was implemented in January 2012, thirty months later.
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THE GUARDIAN | 11th Jun 13
The African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights will on Friday deliver a landmark judgement on Rev Christopher Mtikila’s case against the government.
In that case, Mtikila is assisted by the Tanganyika Law Society and the Legal and Human Rights Centre.
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THE GUARDIAN | 10th Jun 13
The Tanzania Commission for Universities (TCU) is formulating guidelines on tuition fees for higher learning institutions after agreeing with the ministry and National Council for Technical Education (NACTE) on the need for a ‘student unit cost’ structure.
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THE GUARDIAN | 10th Jun 13
Yemen based Tamimi Fisheries Company has through its representatives expressed disappointment with the low exploit of fisheries resources in Tanzania, especially on the Indian Ocean.
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THE GUARDIAN | 10th Jun 13
The Tanzania Gender and Networking Programme (TGNP) has strongly blamed the government for grabbing the Mshewe residents’ land in Mbeya Rural District and sold it to investors, leaving the villagers as tenants and workers on their ancestors’ land.
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THE GUARDIAN | 10th Jun 13
The National Housing Corporation (NHC) is to demolish its residential houses in the Arusha city suburb of Sanawari, and erects ultra-modern shopping malls.
The move is part of the state-run real estate firm to meet the increasing demand of such facilities in the rapidly growing northern safari capital.
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THE GUARDIAN | 10th Jun 13
The government and other development partners have been tipped to utilise the just ended National Smart Partnership Dialogue to boost the agricultural sector which is a key player for the country’s rapid development.
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THE GUARDIAN | 10th Jun 13
The National Identification Authority (NIDA) is set to start the exercise of obtaining the biometric capture of information for Dar es Salaam residents who filled application forms for the national identity cards.
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THE GUARDIAN | 10th Jun 13
A Norwegian fertiliser company, YARA-International has unveiled its long-term plans to set up fertilisers-manufacturing factory in Tanzania in a broader quest to enhance farmers’ access to the inputs.
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THE GUARDIAN | 10th Jun 13
Representatives from European Union (EU) met with Ministry of Energy and Minerals officials on Friday whereby they debriefed them on the results of a fact finding mission to Tanzania sponsored by the Commission.
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THE GUARDIAN | 10th Jun 13
The 102nd International Labour Organisation (ILO) conference opened in Geneva yesterday with the organisation’s Director General, Guy Ryder, outlined his vision for tackling the various challenges that have an impact on workers, enterprises and governments around the world.
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THE GUARDIAN | 10th Jun 13
Police in Ngorongoro District, Arusha Region have managed to seize at least 12 sub-machine guns in Oldonyosambu village, which is close to the Tanzania-Kenya border.
The seizure is a result of a special operation by the force that had urged individuals illegally owned guns to voluntarily surrender them.
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GUARDIAN ON SUNDAY | 9th Jun 13
The unplanned regional expansion and the entry of low-cost airline, FastJet, has thrown the country’s biggest private airline, PrecisionAir into financial crisis, The Guardian on Sunday has learnt.
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GUARDIAN ON SUNDAY | 9th Jun 13
Reactions on the Katiba Draft continue to pour from different people, receiving early accolades from a number of groups and organisations. Prof Chris Maina Peter, a renowned lawyer currently based in Geneva, Switzerland working for the United Nations International Law Commission, has volunteered to write down his personal observations on the document.
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GUARDIAN ON SUNDAY | 9th Jun 13
Corruption now eats up 20 percent of the monies earmarked for the country’s development effort even as the government claims to have perennial shortages of funds to finance its general budget.
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GUARDIAN ON SUNDAY | 9th Jun 13
In recent days there has been drama in the National Assembly ranging from battle of words over adherence to parliamentary standing orders to deemed obscene language that resulted in expulsion of some lawmakers.
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GUARDIAN ON SUNDAY | 9th Jun 13
Vice President, Dr Mohammed Gharib Bilal has said East African Community member states are determined to speed up integration along the path they have chosen.
Making a keynote speech at a one-day workshop on Competitiveness in East African Countries organized jointly by EAC, the World Economic Forum and the African Union Commission, Dr Bilal noted that in the first decade of EAC existence 2000-2010 the zone witnessed a four-fold growth of its GDP from $20 billion to $80 billion.
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GUARDIAN ON SUNDAY | 9th Jun 13
The Eastern Arc Mountains Conservation Endowment Fund (EAMCEF) has empowered over 5,000 villagers living close to forest reserves with income generating projects.
EAMCEF’s executive director Francis Sabuni told reporters recently in Morogoro saying the fund was established as funding mechanism for biodiversity conservation and climate change mitigation in the Eastern Arc Mountains in Tanzania.
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GUARDIAN ON SUNDAY | 9th Jun 13
Senior minister Samuel Sitta, who is also the Deputy Leader of Government Business in the National Assembly, has declared that the Draft Constitution released by the Warioba Commission has the potential of messing up the Union and create new sources of gain for government officials.
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GUARDIAN ON SUNDAY | 9th Jun 13
There is need for looking anew and timely identifying what could genuinely trigger the much sought development, which means anchoring on what existed within the hitherto aid model, where recipient countries thinking was anchored in the donor aid syndrome, experts have declared.
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GUARDIAN ON SUNDAY | 9th Jun 13
The proposal by former Tanzanian President Ali Hassan Mwinyi that November 30, the day the EAC Tripartite Commission was launched, be made public holiday, deserves support..
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GUARDIAN ON SUNDAY | 9th Jun 13
Simba Sports Club have pulled out of the East and Central Africa Club Championship, Kagame Cup, set to kick off June 18 in Sudan.
The club vice chairman Joseph Itangale 'Mzee Kinesi' said yesterday that they decided to pull out of the regional championship because of the poor security in the Darfur Province in Sudan.
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THE GUARDIAN | 8th Jun 13
The proposed draft constitution has omitted or just forgotten one crucial institution in building a corrupt-free nation, the Prevention and Combating of Corruption Bureau (PCCB), The Guardian can reveal today.
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THE GUARDIAN | 8th Jun 13
The government has at last given a firm statement that all mining and mobile phone firms should be listed on the Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange in a bid to monitor all the transactions for better tax collection.
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THE GUARDIAN | 8th Jun 13
Zanzibar president Dr Ali Mohmmed Shein has said he doesn’t recognize the self-styled reconciliation committee that is working on ensuring Zanzibar becomes a fully autonomous state.
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THE GUARDIAN | 8th Jun 13
IPP Executive Chairman Dr Reginald Mengi yesterday said the government ought to put into practice what he described as ‘unsung’ new ideas and concepts to fight poverty in the face of mounting examples of past failures to combat the problem by using current perceptions have since proved to be ineffective.
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THE GUARDIAN | 8th Jun 13
The agricultural window at the Tanzania Investment Bank (TIB) will be shifted to the Tanzania Agricultural Development Bank (TADB) when it comes into operation next month.
Finance Minister William Mgimwa made this assertion to the National Assembly here on Thursday when tabling the ministry’s estimates for the financial year 2013/2014.
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THE GUARDIAN | 8th Jun 13
Despite a public outcry over potential harm that uranium might bring to the environment and people in the designated mining areas, the government has stated that extraction of the mineral resource will start soon.
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THE GUARDIAN | 8th Jun 13
At least 50,000 customers have been connected with electricity since the government announced a reduction of connection fees early this year.
Energy and Minerals Deputy Minister Stephen Masele made this announcement in a National Assembly session here yesterday when responding to a supplementary question by Mustapha Akunaay (Mbulu-CHADEMA) who wanted to know whether the delay in implementing power projects under the Rural Energy Agency (REA) was due to shortage of electric poles.
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THE GUARDIAN | 8th Jun 13
The Media Institute of Southern Africa- Tanzania (MISA-TAN) has singled out Dodoma and Zanzibar as areas engulfed by high level of secrecy when it comes to accessing information.
MISA-TAN Director Tumain Mwailenge said in Dar es Salaam yesterday that according to its findings, Dodoma is ‘bureaucratic municipality’ when ones searches information for public consumption.
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THE GUARDIAN | 8th Jun 13
Although the first draft of the new constitution unveiled on Monday in Dar es Salaam this week includes people’s views it fails to answer some puzzling questions, a leading lawyer has said.
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THE GUARDIAN | 8th Jun 13
The government does not provide subsidy to private universities in the country but it supports students through the provision of loans.
Education and Vocational Training deputy minister Philip Mulugo made this observation in the House here yesterday when responding to a supplementary question by Jaku Hashim Ayoub from the House of Representatives (CCM).
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THE GUARDIAN | 7th Jun 13
Avoidable expenditure in the government is expected to increase by 5 percent from 681bn/- in 2012/13 financial year to 714bn/- in the coming one.
The contributing factor is that only 16 regions and 13 ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) out of 61, have reduced their estimated overall expenditures.
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THE GUARDIAN | 7th Jun 13
The government has said that it was dedicated to establish right policies that are conducive for growth of business so as to enable the private sector to prosper.
In his speech read by Permanent Secretary Joyce Mapunjo at the official opening of the 17th East Africa International Trade Exhibition Africa of 2013, in Dar es Salaam yesterday, Industry and Trade minister Dr Abdallah Kigoda, said that the government has done much to ensure Tanzania remains an attractive and profitable place to invest.
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THE GUARDIAN | 7th Jun 13
The Official Opposition in the National Assembly yesterday faulted the government for failing to pay the increasing debt arrears owed to social security and pension schemes saying that showed ‘a direct result of dire lack of standards’ on part of the Ministry of Finance.
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THE GUARDIAN | 7th Jun 13
The Chairperson of the East African Community (EAC) Heads of State Summit, President Yoweri Museveni, has urged African countries to partner with advanced economies so as to speed up their own development.
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THE GUARDIAN | 7th Jun 13
The government yesterday said that it will give both subsidy vouchers and soft loans to farmers’ cooperatives to enable them to access agro-inputs in the coming season.
Minister for Agriculture, Food Security and Cooperatives Christopher Chiza told the National Assembly here when responding to a supplementary question raised by Jenister Mhagama (Peramiho, CCM).
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THE GUARDIAN | 7th Jun 13
The lawmaker for Kigoma-South David Kafulila (NCCR-Mageuzi) has questioned the rationale for the government to import rice and maize while the country has the potential to produce surplus of these crops.
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THE GUARDIAN | 7th Jun 13
The official opposition camp in Parliament has revealed that the Mwl Julius Nyerere Memorial Scholarship Fund has been running without funds since June 2012.
The Fund which was established in 2009 by the Bank of Tanzania (BoT) to finance undergraduate studies for girls with remarkable performances in Sciences and Mathematics subjects was set in honour of the late founding Father of the Nation.
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