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SOME 35 NGOs have teamed up to petition the government, urging it to allocate adequate budget for maternal and newborn health during the 2012/2013 financial year. The activists met in Dar es Salaam over the weekend and agreed to engage policy makers especially MPs to push for increased budget allocation. "The maternal and newborn health sector has been allocated only
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Migombani — The East African archipelago of Zanzibar is attempting to win "environmental independence" from Tanzania by joining an organisation that promotes the sustainable development of islands in the Indian Ocean. Zanzibar has lodged a formal membership application with the Indian Ocean Commission (IOC), a regional cooperation body whose current members are Comoros, Mauritius, Seychelles, Madagascar and Reunion. Although Zanzibar
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SIX out of eight former cabinet ministers who were criticized by Members of Parliament and were implicated in a report by the Controller and Auditor General (CAG) and two deputy ministers have lost their positions in the new cabinet announced in Dar es Salaam on Friday by President Jakaya Kikwete. Two of the eight ministers, who also faced stiff challenge
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Dar Es Salaam - Tanzania's ruling party has agreed that several government ministers should be sacked for corruption, as demanded by President Jakaya Kikwete, a party official said on Saturday. "The central committee has endorsed the president's plan and wants him to change the cabinet as soon as possible," Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party spokesperson Nape Nnauye said in a
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Tanzania has regained its lost glory in world of music fame that has dwindled since the eighties. When the name of Tanzania is currently mentioned in international music circles the name of Ebrahim Makunja popularly known as Ras Makunja of FFU and his "The Ngoma Africa Band" aka FFU based in Germany cannot be slighted. FFU has earnestly strived to
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On the tropical island of Zanzibar, a shot of heroin costs as much as a bottle of beer. As a consequence, many Zanzibaris are addicted to what they call "unga" - flower in Swahili. Zanzibar must be the ultimate exotic holiday destination. The sun is always shining, and the white beaches with coconut palms appeal to the idea of a
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Sumbawanga — MPANDA District Commissioner, Dr Rajab Rutengwe on Wednesday ordered a crackdown starting on Thursday of parents and the guardians who have not sent their daughters to school. Dr Rutengwe said the order follows a report that 15 girls who excelled in their final Standard Seven Examinations last year, have not yet reported to their respective schools. The schools
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Poor finishing cost Tanzania Taifa Stars dearly when they settled for a scoreless draw with visiting Democratic Republic of Congo in their friendly international played at the National Stadium in Dar es Salaam . Both teams used the match to shape up ahead of Wednesday's African Nations Cup qualifier first leg ties. The Tanzanians will host Mozambique while DRC board
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Dar es Salaam - Four people were killed in southern Tanzania in clashes between police and thousands of demonstrators angry at a spate of reported witchcraft killings, officials said on Thursday. Protestors in the clashes on Wednesday were angry at what they said was a lack of police action to hunt down the killers of four women murdered in the
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VODACOM Tanzania in collaboration with CCBRT yesterday launched a nationwide campaign to raise more than 1bn/- from the public in support of maternal healthcare for women suffering from obstetric fistula. The campaign, dubbed moyo (heart), will raise funds from the public through Vodacom M-Pesa services and the contributions will be used to cover free treatment to affected women at CCBRT's
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Dar es Salaam - Heavily armed robbers tried to steal a stack of gold bars from a plane at an airstrip near a mine in Tanzania owned by AngloGold Ashanti but were thwarted by the country's police. Police said on Friday five masked men emerged from a nearby forest and attempted to grab 587kg of gold bars from the plane
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Dar es Salaam — Tanzanian police found 20 dead Somali immigrants in a container on a vehicle, 200km from Dar Es Salaam near the border Tanzania shares with Zambia, Radio Garowe reports. The Somalis who were found dead in the province of Morogoro, consisted of 17 men and 3 women who were illegal migrants found dead in container after they
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In a dramatic move aimed at ending the ghost worker syndrome, the government has directed all civil servants to report to their respective duty stations and collect cheques for their January 2012 in person. The procedure is a departure from the system under which salaries were posted to the bank accounts of employees, some of whom, it has transpired, were
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A recent report which noted that 70 per cent of medicines prescribed for children are unlicensed, used off-label and are not studied for particular age groups, brings to light an issue that is often overlooked in our society. It is common practice especially in rural areas where a significant percentage of the population is illiterate, and where access to expert
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Dar es Salaam - The death toll from severe flooding in Tanzania's economic capital Dar es Salaam has risen to 38, local authorities said on Friday. "More bodies continue to be retrieved in various parts of the city that were affected by floods," Dar es Salaam Regional Commissioner Said Mecky Sadick told a news conference. The heaviest rainfall in more
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Dar es Salaam — The government went into top gear yesterday to assist thousands of people affected by the record-breaking floods that hit Dar es Salaam on Tuesday. As President Jakaya Kikwete toured several areas affected by the floods, Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda headed a crisis meeting in his office that all permanent secretaries attended. The Minister for Works, Dr
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wo Tanzania whistlers Leslie Liunda and Joan Minja have been picked by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) as referees’ instructors after passing examinations held in May in Cairo, Egypt. A top Tanzania Football Federation(TFF) officials disclosed that the duo were among 58 who passed the test. 90 candidates from all over the continent sat for the exams. Other Tanzanians
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Dar es Salaam — TANZANIA has achieved much in the last 50 years in various spheres of development but still there is a long way to go, President Jakaya Kikwete told the nation on Friday during Independence Day celebrations. "We need to achieve much more," he said. Speaking at Uhuru Stadium in Dar es Salaam, the president gave the example
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Mwanza — THE government has been challenged to develop infrastructure and create an enabling environment to attract more mining investments. The challenge was thrown here by the Executive Secretary of Tanzania Chamber of Minerals and Energy (TCME), Mr Emmanuel Jengo when talking during the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Forum and the Chamber's Annual General meeting. He said the government should
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George W. Bush received a warm welcome in Tanzania Thursday on the first stop on an African philanthropic tour, despite a rights group's call for the former US president's arrest on torture charges. Bush was received in the economic capital Dar es Salaam by Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete, who thanked him for America's contribution to his country's fight against AIDS.
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Which political party between Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM), Chadema and Civic United Front (CUF) will throw the first stone at the UK in the wake of the raging debate on homosexuality? The three parties dominate local politics and are said to enjoy well established links with like-minded organisations in the UK for purposes of advancing democracy but could now come
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Tanzania's Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda said Monday eight suspects have been sentenced to death by hanging for the murder of albinos since a wave of witchcraft killings erupted in 2007. Pinda said in a report that 94 suspects had been arrested and 11 cases were before the courts. "Thanks to these efforts, attacks on albinos have considerably reduced," Pinda said.
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The Tanzania Teachers Union (TTU) will open a open come next year, it was aid in Dar es Salaam on Wednesday. Deputy Permanent Secretary of TTU, Mr Ezekiel Oluoch said during a workshop in preparation for the establishment of the financial institution to trade as Tanzania Teachers' Bank. According to Mr Oluoch, the bank aims to giving loans to its
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A record amount of heroin and cocaine was seized in the country last year, the government said yesterday. Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office William Lukuvi told Parliament that the impounded hauls pointed to an increase in the narcotics trade in Tanzania in recent years. Mr Lukuvi was tabling the government's official report on drugs and measures that
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Health authorities in Zanzibar have raised concern over increasing cases of diabetes, warning that it was threat to all people. "The problem is already a big one in our Islands; so I appeal for frequent health checks," said the minister of Health, Mr Juma Duni Haji, at a gathering in Makunduchi, South Zanzibar Region, to mark the World Diabetes Day
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