Tanzania News

UNTIL February this year, Industry and Trade ministry had received only 23 per cent of the total budget approved by the Parliament in the last fiscal year , according to the chairman of the parliamentary Industry and Trade standing committee, Mr Mahmoud Mgimwa.

POLITICIANS in the islands say transparency and developing a credible voter register is one sure way of enhancing the integrity of all future elections.

DRIVERS using tree branches instead of triangles to notify road users in case of highway breakdowns risk serious penalties because it is illegal, the Deputy Minister in the Vice-President's Office, Mr Charles Kitwanga has said.

Rio de Janeiro, May 25 Brazilian state-controlled energy giant Petrobras said Friday it sold a 12 percent stake in an oil block off Tanzania's coast to Norway's Statoil.

"In one month, I will climb Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania to raise money and awareness for clean water projects in East Africa," Lewis announced on his web site.

THE Mail's got itself all in a tither about a find of African money off the coast of Australia.

AS the controversy over the efficacy of an Indian-made diabetes drug, Wosulin, hots up at Zanzibar's Mnazi Mmoja main hospital, patients are being put in danger.

Tanzania has drafted policies aimed at channelling the benefits of a gas boom to its own people, in the face of a fatal riot over plans for a new pipeline.

Lynsey Chandler, who has already done a skydive for charity, is climbing Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, Africa, later this year to raise cash for Macmillan Cancer Support.

A pregnant woman has been shot dead in Tanzania during a security operation after protests in Mtwara, a journalist in the southern town has told the BBC.

THE Confederation of Tanzania Industries and the Ministry of Finance are contemplating the best way to curb smuggling and tax evasion along the Zanzibar channel and save local industries from collapsing due to unequal competition in the domestic market.

A RECENT ILO report shows that domestic workers around the world, especially in the developing world, are abused, humiliated and exploited almost with complete impunity.

In yet another shocking incident in Zanzibar a local leader, popularly known here as sheha, has been attacked with acid.

A Carrick church group is taking part in a bike project to help a Tanzanian community with day to day functions.

Wentworth Resources Limited Q1 2013 Financial Statements and MD&A Wentworth Resources Limited, the Oslo Stock Exchange and London Stock Exchange listed independent, East Africa-focused oil & gas company, today announces its results for the three months ended March 31, 2013.

Tanzania is demanding almost $206 million in taxes from Russian state uranium company ARMZ which has won a licence to build the east African country's first uranium mine, the energy minister said on Thursday.

Dodoma and Dar es Salaam - MTWARA Municipality was on Wednesday rocked by riots as police clashed with hundreds of demonstrators reportedly opposing the planned construction of a 532-km gas pipeline from the town to Dar es Salaam.

CONSTRUCTION of a gas pipeline to Dar es Salaam from Mtwara will be implemented as planned with consideration on it benefiting locals in Mtwara and Lindi, the Minister for Energy and Minerals, Prof Sospeter Muhongo has said.

ALTHOUGH Rukwa has a 512,722-strong herd of cattle; the region has only three ranches that rear 274 improved beef cattle.

RESIDENTS in some parts of Unguja and Pemba islands currently facing water shortage will have the problem minimised by August, this year, when a project to construct 50 boreholes/wells will be completed.