Tanzania

KITWANA KONDO

The man elected as mayor of Dar es Salaam in [...]

BANG! YOU'RE DEAD

Tanzania's minister of labour and youth Augustine Mrema must have guessed he was sticking his neck out when he decided, [...]

THE CURIOUS PERVERSITY OF BILLS

Introduced in August 1993 as a means of filling part of Tanzania's yawning budget deficit, the sale of Treasury bills [...]

EMERGENCY POWER PLANT PROJECT BACK ON TRACK

A new invitation to tender has been issued for an [...]

TIPER'S BACK TO THE WALL

The World Bank has made the closure of the Tanzania-Italy [...]

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TARGETTING CUSTOMS FRAUD

The World Bank consultative group on Tanzania held in Paris on February 27 and 28 zeroed in on customs fraud, a problem amounting to 70 billion Tanzanian shillings of taxes which the government has not received, including 20 billion Tsh.

ALITALIA PROJECTS

Italy's foreign ministry has been hard at it for some time now trying to get the airline Alitalia to re-open [...]

TAN NOLAN ACCORD CANCELLED

Backed by the World Bank, the Tanzania Electric Supply Corporation (Tanesco) has carried the day in a conflict with the [...]

ABB BUILDS UP POSITION

ABB announced on Feb. 9 that it had increased from 20 to 70% its stake in Tanelec, the Arusha-based company [...]

THE FOUR SHADES OF CCM

Tanzania's national electoral commission announced on February 11 that the country's presidential and general elections would be held on October [...]

The French bank Lazard Brothers is to act as adviser [...]

DUBIOUS LOAN FOR CCM

About fifty contributors of Tanzania's National Provident Fund (NPF), a parastatal social security system, are considering whether to sue Horace [...]

SOUTH AFRICAN BREAKTHROUGH

South African exports to East African countries increased considerably during first-half 1994 compared with the same period 1993, marking a [...]

NISSIM ZVILI

The state-run Radio Israel on January 19 quoted the secretary [...]

The World Bank consultative group meeting on Tanzania, which was [...]

SAM HAGAI SARAKIKYA

Tanzania's newly-appointed High Commissioner to The Seychelles general Mirisho Sam [...]

ZANZIBAR'S "KENYAN CONNECTION"

Civic United Front (CUF, opposition) vice-chairman Seif Sharif Hamad has accused the Kenyan government of sending youth section members of [...]

PHONEY NOTES, AND SCRUFFY TO BOOT

Tanzanian police have arrested a gang of alleged banknote forgers at Musoma, in Mara Region close to the Kenyan border, [...]

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POWER INDUSTRY BLUES

The new year could well be marked by increased power cuts in Tanzania. There is no lack of major projects but the short and medium-term picture is marred by institutional and management problems as well as immediate shortages that both [.