Tanzania

LETHARGIC ELECTIONS

Local elections planned in Dar es Salaam for the end of October seem to have aroused as much interest as [...]

ALI HASSAN MWINYI

Following discussions with a senior Tel Aviv official who had [...]

BERNADETTE LEFORT

Currently holding the Number Two position in France's permanent delegation to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in [...]

JULIUS NYERERE

The former Tanzanian head of state (1961-1985) told the South [...]

NEW START FOR SONGO-SONGO PROJECT

A company is currently being set up under the name [...]

FRENCH COMPANY MEETINGS

Commercial counsellors from French embassies in East Africa are to hold a meeting in Nairobi in March 1995 for representatives [...]

BONN QUESTIONS ITS OWN AID

An in-depth study by the German Development Institute (GDI) has raised serious questions on Germany's technical cooperation with several countries, [...]

PROJECTS OF THE WORLD BANK

A study mission from the World Bank is expected to go to Kenya before the end of September to prepare [...]

LAKE VICTORIA ENVIRONMENT

Governmental representatives of three East African countries (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda) met in Nairobi last week to hammer out the working [...]

GATT STUDENTS

The 78th General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) course on trade policies commenced in Geneva on August 29 and [...]

ADB LOANS FOR GRAPHTAN AND GAFSA

The African Development Bank has just approved loans for the Graphtan graphite project in Tanzania spearheaded by private interests and [...]

ROAD VERSUS RAIL

Thanks to rejigging the freight tariffs on its inland rail routes, where it used to carry between 60 percent and [...]

THIRD AID RECIPIENT FOR BELGIUM

Belgium's interest in Tanzania is in process of being confirmed. According to its Agence Générale à la Coopération au Développement [...]

TAKING PART IN NORAD SEMINAR

Mozambique and Tanzania, two major recipients of Norwegian assistance, are [...]

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ASIANS FACE RACIAL TENSION

Tanzania's Indo-Pakistani community has been the victim of commercial, political, racist and sporting tension over the past several weeks. An arson attack which destroyed offices and stores belonging to Asian businessman Abbas Gulamali in Dar es Salaam at the beginning [.

JUMA HAMAD

Originating from Zanzibar where he had been a minister and joining the central government when Ali Hassan Mwinyi became head [...]

TIGHTER GRIP ON IMPORTS

A recently published report by the Confederation of Tanzanian Industries and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) recommends [...]

Norway announced last week that it had authorized 400 million [...]

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MUSEVENI DIPLOMACY

The Rwandan crisis has pushed Uganda's head of state Yoweri Museveni into the role of regional referee. At a time when countries all around are shifting and unstable, the regime he installed by force of arms in 1986 can today [.