Tanzania

FREEDOM FOR RADIO/TV

Tanzania's parliament approved a Bill on April 23 legalising private radio and television networks. The minister for information and communications, [...]

ELECTRICITY LINK WITH BURUNDI

The African Development Bank is to make a loan of US$814,000 to the governments of Burundi and Tanzania to finance [...]

JULIUS LUTAINULWA

The Commissioner of Income Tax said recently that a large [...]

The Dar-Es-Salaam government has authorised the publication of six new [...]

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A BLOW TO FUNDAMENTALISTS

While in Tanzania the move towards multi-party democracy has not brought with it a show of important opposition parties to the ruling party, Chama cha Mapinduzi (CCM), except perhaps on Zanzibar, religious groups are trying to get in on the [.

CUSTOMS DUTIES EVASION BLIGHTS BUDGET DEFICIT

A study made by industrialists in Tanzania from the Confederation of Tanzania Industries (CTI) points to a number of loopholes [...]

The Centre Français du Commerce Extérieur (CFCE) and French commercial [...]

AUGUSTINE MREMA

The Tanzanian vice-prime minister and minister of internal affairs told [...]

The court hearings on April 13, of 38 Muslim fundamentalists [...]

A Tanzanian company based in Mbeya in the west of [...]

ANDREW KAILEMBO

The officer in charge of relations between his International Confederation of Free Trade Unions and the organization's African affiliates has [...]

SALIM AHMED SALIM

Tanzanian president, Ali Hassan Mwinyi last week called for his [...]

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NEW ELECTRICITY PUSH

The Tanzania Electric Supply Co (Tanesco) has revived its projects and is urgently buying combustion turbines. But an electricity shortage that began 10 months ago gives little sign of ending. Circles in Dar es Sallam are blaming it for what [.

GRAPHITE PROJECTS UNDERWAY

The Graphtan consortium's project to extract graphite in Tanzania will move into the production phase in June. The project is [...]

DONORS FEAR LACK OF HUNTING CONTROL

International donor agencies are likely to withdraw their assistance to wildlife conservation programmes in Tanzania if the government does not [...]

EXPENSIVE SOLUTION TO BADLY MANAGED IMPORT SUPPORT FUND

Over 190 local firms (public and private) could be forced to repay, between now and July, 176.6 billion shillings (542 [...]

THE IMF WANTS MORE

A recent article in the IMF bulletin on economic reforms since 1986 in Tanzania, notes that measures related to these [...]

FIGHT FOR TELECOM PROJECT

A fierce battle over the Southern Highlands Telecommunication Project has erupted. A German consultant, subsidiary of the Bundespost is currently [...]

MPS LIVING IT UP

The Tanzanian government spent more than 2.7 billion shillings (8.3 million dollars) on luxury automobiles made available to Members of [...]