Tamwa deplores delays in sexual violence court cases

Tanzania Media Women's Association (Tamwa) has strongly condemned mounting delays and misstatements of evidence for sexual violence-related cases, especially rape and sodomy cases in courts, at police stations and by medical doctors.

The activists now worry whether the government is actually committed to ending gender violence against the girl child.

Govt fields army to track down armed robbers in Coast Region

Dar es Salaam by the Minister for Home Affairs, Charles Kitwanga

The deadly armed robbery incident that occurred on Friday at Access Bank’s Mbagala Branch in Temeke District, Dar es Salaam has sent shock waves up the spine of top officials at the Ministry of Home Affairs and now plans are under way to involve the military in tracking down armed robbers in Coast region.

This was revealed yesterday in Dar es Salaam by the Minister for Home Affairs, Charles Kitwanga when briefing reporters on the robbery incident that took place at the Access Bank Mbagala Brach in which three armed robbers, a police officer and two civilians were killed.

Tanzania to mark Women`s Day amid challenges

Tanzania will celebrate the International Women’s Day on March 8 in an event aimed at honouring their  social, economic, cultural and political achievements, amid a chronic barrage of age-old problems facing the weak gender in a country reputed for its allegedly strong patrimonial culture.
 
They include gender-based violence, early and forced marriages, gender discrimination in employment, politics, education and even inheritance though the government has made milestones in addressing the issue.

The fifth-phase government appears to be especially serious in ending the disparity by taking a stick from where the previous government of Jakaya Kikwete stopped, with President John Magufuli and his Vice, Samia Suluhu Hassan vowing to end all forms of gender and child rights abuse.

 “My government will commit Sh50m every month to every village across the country to empower women and young people,” was a remark repeatedly uttered by President John Magufuli in his pre-election campaign and soon after winning the post.

He would also say, “we’re looking forward to making sure all children have access to basic primary  through form four secondary school education as we are going to provide it for free,” encouraging parents into taking the once stayed-home daughters to schools.

“Our government will commit Sh50m every month to villages across the country to empower women and young people,” Suluhu would repeatedly echo the remark of her boss.

Floods render 600 people homeless in Hanang district

Over 50 households in Katesh township, Hanang district in Manyara region have been rendered homeless by floods due to ongoing rains in the area.

It is estimated that nearly 1000 acres of farms with assorted crops have been destroyed by the floods.

Hanang district commissioner, Thobias Mwilapwa confirmed the disaster, saying some 600 people were now homeless after floods demolished their houses.

 “This is the second time that storms are wreaking havoc here. The same phenomenon occurred last year, resulting in massive loss of crops,” said the DC, adding that limited harvests from last seasons, coupled with the fact that the rains had also destroyed this year’s crops, made Hanang susceptible to serious food insecurity.

Mwilapwa explained that they had already requested relief food from the central government.

“The district needs 10,000 tonnes of grain but we have so far received 350 tonnes during the first phase and 200 tons in the second consignment,” he said.

The district commissioner also urged residents in the drought-stricken area to sell part of their livestock so they could use the money to buy food.

The DC ordered people in the area to grow crops that were resistant to harsh weather effects such as drought and diseases. These include cassava, potatoes, millet and sorghum.

Dar RAS throws mayoral poll in spin Ukawa accuse CCM of `delaying tactics`

Fracas ensued yesterday at Karimjee Hall involving bitter verbal exchanges between Chama cha Demokrasia na Maendeleo (Chadema) na Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) delegates after a scheduled Dar es Salaam mayoral election was suddenly put off indefinitely by City Council Deputy Director Sara Yohana.

Police had to be called in to restore calm, during which a number of delegates to the election were arrested, and managed to remove Sara Yohana  and chairman of the election from the venue under tight security.

According to the city council acting director, the sudden postponement was prompted by a received court injunction said to have been issued earlier before the delegates entered the polling venue.

After the meeting was opened, the acting director then announced adjournment of the election ostensibly to obey the court order.

The injunction letter was also glued on the hall door outside and it partly read, “This court hereby orders that an interim order is hereby granted that election of the mayor and deputy mayor of Dar es Salaam City Council is hereby suspended pending hearing and determination of an application filed by the applicants”.

MINISTRY OF CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS AND JUSTICE-NEWS

Mwakyembe tells lawyers to go ethical.

Minister for Minister of Constitutional Affairs and Justice, Dr Harrison Mwakyembe.

The government has expressed concern over some ethical violations rampant in the country’s judiciary, appealing to legal practitioners to refrain from fueling the vice.

At issue is a corruption in the routine issuance of legal practicing certificates, allegedly given randomly to individuals who do not necessarily meet the professional requisites.

Minister for Minister of Constitutional Affairs and Justice, Dr Harrison Mwakyembe said the double standards that shrouded the profession ought to be fought and that professional knowledge was not enough in granting one a certificate.

He said personal ethical state of affairs of a professional practitioner should be considered requisite for a potential lawyer a practicing certificate.

“Practicing certificates are given to everybody satisfying the requirements, well and good…but is it fair, is it doing justice the people around us seeing government employees working as private advocates,” queried the minister yesterday while officiating the annual conference and the general meeting of the Tanganyika Law Society (TLS) in Arusha.

Employers ordered to comply with labour laws .

The Prime Minister Majaliwa

The Government has issued directives to the leadership of two factories to solve with immediate effect challenges facing their employees and remit pension contributions lest the administration faces disciplinary measures.

 

The factories on the firing line include Population Service Tanzania (IPS) with more than 150 workers but hardly 123 of them have unclear contact and therefore given five days to settle the dispute.

 

Another factory in question is Tech Pack dealing with the manufacturing more than 15 brands of cement bags like Twiga Cement, Dangote Cement among others. A seven-day ultimatum was issued to the factory leadership to iron out the differences including preparation of permanent contracts for the workers.

Dar police kill 3 armed robbers in bank heist.

                                                Policeman, guard, bank officer killed

Dar es Salaam Special Zone Commander Simon Sirro.

Three armed robbers are believed to have been killed by police yesterday after storming an Access Bank Mbagala branch in Temeke district, Dar es Salaam region, in a robbery involving an unspecified amount of money.

 

Scanty information that trickled in late yesterday evening stated that a police officer was also killed as they engaged the heavily armed robbers.  

 

Eye witnesses who volunteered information on condition of anonymity, including community police officers in the area, said six armed robbers arrived at the bank on three motorcycles before they shot the bank’s security guards.

 

They then stormed the bank, demanding to know where the branch manager was. But after they missed him they entered a room where they shot some customers and bank staff before making away with a bag containing  an unspecified amount of money.

 

According to the witnesses, several people could have been injured as the robbers shot at people in the bank indiscriminately.

 

The Guardian could not independently verify the authenticity of the information.  However, Dar es Salaam Special Zone Commander Simon Sirro asked this newspaper to give him time to work on the matter and provide information, but as the paper went to bed he had not phoned back.

TCU closes another SUIT college.

The Tanzania Commission for Universities (TCU).

The Tanzania Commission for Universities (TCU) has caught the first prey of its nationwide quality assurance net, driving St Joseph University in Tanzania (SJUIT) into death bed in less than a fortnight.

 

It closed the Arusha Campus yesterday as the university’s third constituent college in what appeared to be the start of a crackdown on poor varsity performers as of last week. 

 

The embattled university has now only two premises in store, namely Boko Campus in Dar es Salaam and the Main Campus in Luguruni at Kibamba in the outskirts of Dar es Salaam, that are nevertheless seemed to have been booked by the chief academic regulators, pending release of performance report “before the start of the second semester” in April, said TCU Executive Secretary Pofessor Yunis Mgaya  yesterday.

 

Last week TCU axed two SJUIT constituent colleges namely that of Agricultural Science and that of Information,  both in Ruvuma Region for failure to meet the quality assurance standards. 

 

Though the professor was short of specifying who would be next after St Joseph, he said; “We have discovered that some universities are not serious in implementing the guidelines provided by the commission, therefore this is the big exercise which will identify all universities going against the key guidelines.”

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US election 2016: Christie endorses Trump in shock move

New Jersey governor and former Republican candidate Chris Christie is endorsing frontrunner Donald Trump for president, he has announced.

Mr Christie dropped out of the 2016 presidential race after a lacklustre showing in polls and state races.
"I'm happy to be on the Trump team and I look forward to working with him," said Mr Christie during a press conference.
Mr Trump gives Republicans the best chance to win the White House, he adds.
He said junior senators Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, both running for president, were "unprepared" for the job.
There is "no question" that Mr Trump will turn around Washington, Mr Christie continued, and keep Democratic candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton from winning the White House.
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Fifa presidential election: Gianni Infantino succeeds Sepp Blatter

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The moment Gianni Infantino was named as the new president of Fifa

Gianni Infantino has succeeded fellow Swiss Sepp Blatter as president of world football's governing body Fifa.

The Uefa secretary general polled 115 votes, 27 more than closest rival Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa.
Prince Ali bin al-Hussein (four votes) and Jerome Champagne (0) were third and fourth respectively.

Blatter, who had led Fifa since 1998, stood down last year and was later suspended from football for six years for breaching ethics guidelines.
Infantino is a 45-year-old lawyer from Brig in the Valais region of Switzerland, less than six miles from Blatter's home town of Visp.
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Social security schemes must give coverage to all

Minister of State in the Prime Minister's Office (Labour, Employment, Youth and People with Physical Disabilities), Jenista Mhagama

 The government has directed the Social Security Regulatory Authority (SSRA) to make sure that all Tanzanians are registered with a social security scheme to help them improve their lives.

 

This was said on Wednesday in Dar es Salaam by the Minister of State  in the Prime Minister’s Office (Labour, Employment, Youth and People with Physical Disabilities), Jenista Mhagama (pictured), when she visited the SSRA headquarters.

Manchester United

As Jose Mourinho continued to flutter his eyelashes at Manchester United from afar on Wednesday, the man whose job he covets urged his players to be ‘horny’ for victory against Midtjylland at Old Trafford on Thursday.

Louis van Gaal’s bizarre battle cry was designed to demonstrate the hunger and passion with which he wants United to pursue a place in the last 16 of the Europa League, by overturning a 2-1 deficit from last week’s first leg in Herning.

EAC summit pushed forward as members mull Somalia, South Sudan inclusion

 President John Magufuli is scheduled to chair the EAC heads of state summit for the first time since taking office

Head of the corporate communications and public affairs department with the EAC secretariat, Richard Owora

 The East African Community (EAC) Heads of State Summit earlier scheduled for February 29 (next Monday) in Arusha has been pushed to March 2 (Wednesday) to allow all five presidents to attend.

 

This comes as members of the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) continue to differ on the inclusion of Somalia and South Sudan as new members of the regional bloc.

 

According to the head of the corporate communications and public affairs department with the EAC secretariat, Richard Owora, all five presidents including the embattled Pierre Nkurunziza of Burundi had by yesterday afternoon confirmed their participation in the summit.

Dar police apprehend woman 'ringleader of armed robbers'

Dar es Salaam Special Zone Police Commander, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Simon Sirro

 Police in Dar es Salaam have arrested a woman suspected of being a ringleader of a gang of armed robbers who stick up banks and use motorcycles as getaway vehicles.

 

The suspected mastermind was under police surveillance for some time and could have been seen visiting several banks in the city without necessarily making any transactions. 

UN committee to review women's rights

The UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW)

 The UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) is tomorrow expected to examine Tanzania’s record on human rights.

 

According to a UN statement issued yesterday, Tanzania has ratified the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women and so is required to be reviewed regularly by the committee on how it is implementing the convention.

 

Among the possible issues for discussion by CEDAW and a delegation from the government are harmful practices including female genital mutilation, polygamy, killing of women accused of witchcraft, ritual killings and attacks on women and girls with albinism.

Wanted: More women in boardrooms

Vice President Samia Suluhu Hassan inaugurates special programme for Female Future in Dar es Salaam yesterday. (Photo

 The Association of Tanzania Employers (ATE) in collaboration with the Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise (NHO) yesterday launched a programme aimed at opening boardroom doors for more women in the country.

 

The programme is designed to provide executive training on leadership, rhetoric and board competence to potential women leaders from various sectors and companies. 

 

During the launch of the initiative dubbed ‘Female Future’ in Dar es Salaam, Vice President Samia Suluhu Hassan noted that some businesses with more women leaders have proved to be more successful than male-dominated ones. 

Teachers' association, KAS train youngsters on leadership ethics

Prof Fr Aidan Msafiri, the Vice Chancellor of Mwenge Catholic University (MWECAU)

 In a bid to groom ethical leadership nationwide, the Civic Education Teachers’ Association (CETA), in collaboration with the Konrad Adenaeur Stiftung (KAS), has launched a series of awareness creation sessions for the youngsters.

 

Under such training youngsters are enlightened on the symbiotic relationship between poverty and corruption and abuse of power, a malady that affects business, politics, sports, economy and the society at large. 

 

Towards the end of last week more than 350 targeted beneficiaries, including teachers and students from Moshi Municipality in Kilimanjaro, met in the region to take lessons. 

Hamad in India for treatment, but govt in the dark

Seif Shariff Hamad, secretary general of the opposition Civic United Front (CUF) party

 As the March 20 date for Zanzibar’s anxiously-awaited general election rerun draws closer, the seeds of intrigue continued to grow as the Revolutionary Government said it wasn’t aware of first vice president Seif Shariff Hamad’s reported trip to India for medical treatment.

 

Hamad is secretary general of the opposition Civic United Front (CUF) party which believes he was well ahead of incumbent Isles president Dr Ali Mohamed Shein of the ruling CCM when the original election was controversially scrapped midway by Zanzibar Electoral Committee (ZEC) chairman  Jecha Salim Jecha last October. 

Azam, Prisons in midweek fixture

Yanga players train at the Karume Memorial Stadium in Dar es Salaam yesterday. Photo: Michael Matemanga

 Tanzania Prisons are at home to visiting Azam FC in a left-over premiership match of the mainland league to be played at the Sokoine Stadium in Mbeya this afternoon.

The encounter promises to be tense basing on the fact that the Mbeya team has never conceded defeat at the hands of visiting Dar es Salaam teams regardless of their football trademarks.

Finnish government supports Tanzania's endeavour towards enhanced creativity

Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Works, Transport and Communication, Prof Faustin Kamuzora

 The Finnish government has supported Tanzania’s endeavours towards promoting creativity and innovation by donating a vehicle worth over USD100,000.

 

Finnish Ambassador to Tanzania, Pekka Hukka, handed over the donation at the weekend to the Information Society and ICT Sector Development Project (Tanzict) on behalf of his government.

 

The envoy said that no country had ever advanced in its economic development without investing in ICT which needed a high amount of innovative and creative ideas that could help in advancement.

Immigration department undergoes big shake-up

  Several officials will be removed from from its Dar es salaam HQ

                                             Home affairs minister Charles Kitwanga

 Home affairs minister Charles Kitwanga yesterday ordered the transfer of various key officials in the immigration department, including officers stationed at the Julius Nyerere International Airport (JNIA) in Dar es Salaam and the Kilimanjaro International Airport (KIA).

 

Several officials in the department’s passport, finance and ICT (information and communications technology) sections will be removed from its Dar es Salaam headquarters, along with officials responsible for the issuing of resident permits, according to the minister’s directive.

Private sector now joins fight against graft

                       Private sector now joins fight against graft

                                               TPSF-Corruption

 The private sector in Tanzania has joined forces with President John Magufuli's government in its ongoing war against corruption and tax evasion, admitting that some local businessmen were routinely bribing public officials to be awarded underhand deals.

 

"In the past, government initiatives to combat corruption targeted only politicians and senior civil servants, leaving out businesspersons and other citizens while they are the givers of corruption," the Tanzania Private Sector Foundation (TPSF) said in a statement.

 

It added: "The private sector recognizes that there are some big and even small businesspersons who would like to see weaknesses in the government's efforts to curb corruption, policies, laws, rules, regulations and decisions that continue to favour the minority while disregarding the broad interest of the citizens and ordinary consumers who are denied their basic rights."

We should remove barriers to trade, DRC envoy urges

 The Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ambassador to Tanzania Jean-Pierre Mutamba has promised to cooperate with the government to remove various trade barriers between the two nations purposely to strengthen the national economy of both.

 

 The commitment was made in Dar es Salaam yesterday during a ceremony to welcome the Ambassador held at the DRC Embassy in Dar es Salaam.

“I will sit with President Jonh Pombe Magufuli purposely to discuss the best ways to up trade between Tanzania and Congo as well as how it can be used to raise the national economy of the two countries,” the ambassador explained. 

 

Ambassador Mutamba also promised to continue strengthening the existing good relationship between Tanzania and Congo, pledging to work under President Magufuli’s slogan of ‘Hapa Kazi Tu’, which means ‘Work Only, Nothing Else’ in Kiswahili.

Airtel and Total partner to ease payment of services

Airtel mobile money services director Aijaz Khan (2nd-L) shares a jovial moment with Total Tanzania commercial director Romee De Villeneuve at yesterday.

 AIRTEL Tanzania in partnership with Total, an international petroleum company, has launched new payment service which will enable customers to purchase Total products and services through Airtel Money.

 

Dubbed “Airtel Money Tap Tap Card”, the service is linked to Airtel Money wallet of the customers and can be used by the customers for making payments while buying goods and services at Total fuel stations across the country.

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Dodoma court sentences two to 20 years for possession of 38m/- ivory

Dodoma court sentences two to 20 years for possession of 38m/- ivory

 Two residents of Kondoa District in Dodoma Region have been sentenced to 20 years in jail or payment of a 5m/- fine each after being arrested with elephant tusks worth 38m/-.

 

Naming the convicted as Khamis Ramadhani (45) and Hussen Juma Bakari (31), Dodoma Resident Magistrate Joseph Fovo said the accused were found in possession of government trophies, contrary to Section 5 of the Wildlife Conservation Act of 2009.

 

Reading the case before the magistrate, the prosecutor on the government side, Costantine Kikula, teaming up with Linus Bigabe from Tarangire National Park, said the accused committed the offence on May 19, 2014 at Atta area in Kondoa District.

Government hailed for banning sugar imports

President John Magufuli

 The Agricultural Council of Tanzania (ACT) has hailed the government decision to ban sugar imports and recommended favorable conditions for domestic producers to boost production.

 

According to a press statement issued in Dar es Salaam yesterday by ACT, on top of the ban the government should encourage investors with large sugarcane plantations to expand them and provide technical support to out-growers to increase production.   

Cholera re-emerges in Kyela, 6 new cases

Kyela District Council�s executive director, Clement Kasongo

 CHOLERA has re-emerged in Kyela District, Mbeya Region with six new cases in just one week, authorities said on Monday.

 

Kyela District Council’s executive director, Clement Kasongo confirmed on the re-emergence of the disease saying that the affected wards include Matema which is on the shores of Lake Nyasa, Makwale, Ndobo and Lusungo in Ntebela Division.

Malaria treatment inadequate – survey

National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) director general Dr Albina Chuwa

 The national fight against malaria especially among newborn babies is far from being won since hardly one in four facilities offering curative care for sick children have all the necessary components to treat the disease, it has been learnt.

Public college feels graft punch

Minister for Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children, Ummy Mwalimu

 The government has suspended three top officials of the Tanzania Public Service College (TPSC) over separate cases of alleged abuse of office, including the loss of 1 billion/- in dubious circumstances.

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Government says won't recall 'faulty' national IDs

  According to NIDA, over 21 million bona fide Tanzanians aged 18 and above will have been issued with the identification cards by year's end

 The government has said it doesn’t intend to recall around 2 million electronically-produced national identity cards issued to citizens so far despite widespread complaints that the ID cards are flawed, saying instead that the cards will be rolled out to all eligible Tanzanians by the end of the year.

 

In an interview with The Guardian in Dar es Salaam yesterday, the Minister for Home Affairs, Charles Kitwanga, described the technology used to produce the disputed national IDs as ‘state-of-the-art’, and said more of the same cards would be issued by the National Identification Authority (NIDA) to over 21 million bona fide citizens aged 18 and above.

MINISTRY SEEKS SOLUTION FOR DEADLY LAND conflicts

The permanent secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, Dr Yohana Budeba

 In a bid to end recurrent deadly clashes between farmers and pastoralists in the country, the government is now planning to survey idle forests, ranches and empty game parks and give them to livestock keepers.

Arusha to host first orphanage for baby elephants

 Tanzania’s first-ever orphanage for baby elephants is set to be launched next month as a new spike in wildlife poaching threatens the lives of thousands of elephants in the country.

 

The orphanage to be located in Arusha will cater for young elephants whose mothers were killed by poachers in the ongoing illegal ivory hunting spree, leaving the babies without protection, care and food. 

 

Silent Heroes, founded by veterinarian Hayley Adams, has partnered with the African Wildlife Trust to build the facility which is expected to be up and running by end of March

Sweden praises Dar for good use of financial aid

CRDB Bank microfinance operations officer Samson Keenja (L) briefs visiting members of the Swedish Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee, led by Kenneth Forslund.

 Sweden has commended Tanzania’s efforts towards making sure that financial services spread far and wide nationwide, especially in rural areas.

 

Financial services provided by CRDB, Fahari Huduma, which is scattered in all villages, makes Tanzania a leader in the East African region in terms of access to financial services.

 

The praise was issued by the Chairman of the Swedish Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs, Kenneth Forslund, who led a tour of legislators to inspect various development activities funded by the government of Sweden. 

We're set to double food production - Katavi RC

 KATAVI Region is expected to double crop production in the next two years, in its efforts to retain its position as the country’s main food basket.

 

Katavi Regional Commissioner, Dr Abraham Msengi, disclosed this at the weekend when speaking in Dar es Salaam before Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa as the former presented his regional status report to a meeting organised by Rukwa and Katavi Development Forum.

 

His remarks came barely a few weeks after President John Magufuli urged all regional and district commissioners to ensure that their areas of jurisdiction have enough food and use the current rains to grow food crops.

 

He said there was an increase in farmland from 244,450 hectares in 2013 to 269,814 hectares last year, equivalent to an increase of 51 per cent. He said projections showed that by 2018 the region will have cultivated 532,671 hectares. 

Bagamoyo modern lab to diagnose Ebola, RVF

irector for Preventive Services from the Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children, Dr Neema Rusibamayila

 Tanzania will now be able to diagnose highly endemic diseases like Ebola, Rift Valley Fever and other deadly infectious diseases following enormous renovation of a bio-safety laboratory to be carried out by a constructor from South Africa mid this year.

'African countries need to promote children's rights'

                          The Canadian High Commissioner to Tanzania, Alexandre Leveque

 The Canadian High Commissioner to Tanzania, Alexandre Lévêque has said Tanzania and other African nations can end early and forced child marriage especially if they were committed to promoting women and children rights.

 

The envoy said over the weekend in Dar es Salaam when he briefed reporters over  the First African Girls’ Summit which was held in Lusaka Zambia and organised by the African Union.

 

He said if we were to end child abuse,  early and forced marriage then the governments and other stakeholders must improve and support fully participation of women in all   civil society organisations.

 

Lévêque said through the Canadian Network for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health-DFATD’s network of missions around the world, “Canada is working to raise awareness of the harmful impacts of Child Early and Forced Marriage—CEFM and generate dialogue about ending this practice.”

 

Tanzania being one of countries with the highest early marriage prevalence rate has recorded a slight decrease from 37 per cent in 2013 to 26 per cent in 2014 of the women aged 20-24 being married before their 18th birthday.

 

Prevalence is highest in Shinyanga Region which has 59 per cent, followed by Tabora (58), Mara (55), Dodoma (53), Lindi (48), Mbeya (45), Morogoro (42), Singida (42), Rukwa(40), Ruvuma (39), Mwanza (37), Kagera (36), Mtwara (35), Manyara (34), Coast (33), Tanga (29), Arusha (27), Kilimanjaro (27), Kigoma (26), Dar es Salaam (19), and Iringa  eight per cent.

How wizard spells magic

        

Jabari Tull Clinic overlooks a lush valley in Kongowe, off  Mbagala, a place where one would expect a filth-infested disturbing atmosphere, but instead, is met by a group of women preparing ugali in an environment that looks more a fiesta than a bad-news milieu. 

If at all there were once white washed walls and septic smells, they now appeared to have been replaced with an assembly of muddy and wooden huts lining up against the clinic’s dusty yard.

Pushing a khanga curtain aside leads one into a cool office of the clinic illuminated only through  a tiny window, high enough to meet the ceiling designed in the form of a pyramid, but whose underneath are the dangling clubs and dry pumpkins.

Let crocodiles live, but not at the expense of people's lives

 Needless to say, the survival of our wildlife is a matter of grave concern to all of us in Tanzania and the world at large. These wild creatures are not only important as a source of wonder and inspiration, but are an integral part of our natural resources and our future livelihood and well-being.

 

Of late, however, there have been worrying reports of  crocodiles in Lake Victoria terrorizing people’s lives to the extent that fishing activities in the lake have stopped, and women and children are scared of using the waters for domestic chores like washing clothes and household utensils. 

Agriculture needs co-op unions to aid its revival

Agriculture needs co-op unions to aid its revival

 There is a growing call for the government of the day to revive one of the core pillars of its agricultural sector policy – the cooperative unions. The following is our argument in support of this idea – for what it is worth.

 

Agriculture used to be a truly key element of Tanzania’s economic activity, eclipsing the likes of mining, industry, fishing and tourism. 

 

It once contributed up to 80 per cent of the country’s GDP and could feed the entire nation, with the hoe-wielding rural farmer being the star actor.

 

But today, those farmers are contributing just 27 per cent of national GDP - far surpassed by the services sector at 45 per cent. Moreover, agriculture seems to have become primarily an activity for the elderly, as more and more members of the young generation continue to eschew it in favour of the lure of city life.

How unwise spending costs govt

        

It may take over 120 years to settle Sh6.3trn        

Government pledged annual repayment of Sh50bn

 

One of the building accommodating goverment offices.(Photo Mpoki Bukuku) 

 

It was also established that the situation was worse, given the government’s continual injection of billions of shillings worth rent into private buildings currently hosting various ministries, departments and agencies in the absence of a strategic plan to oversee the construction of its own structures.

Analysts consider this as inappropriate spending by the government as the huge amount could have been directed to various developmental projects.

This is happening amid the fact that office spaces in Dar es Salaam are massively expensive as real estate managers opt to peg rental charges on US dollars per rented square metre.

Rental charges vary from one building to another depending on location of the building and whether there are parking lots, among other factors.

Why farmers in Lake Region are quitting cassava farming

Smallholder farmers involved in cassava cultivation in Magu district, Mwanza Region, and Bunda, Musoma Rural, Butiama and Rorya districts in Mara Region, have abandoned the crop due to cassava mosaic disease (CMD) and cassava brown streak disease (CBSD) infestation.

They said the two diseases have infested the crop, leading to dwindling yields and thus forcing most smallholder farmers to shift to other important crops such as maize.

Cassava is a very important food crop as well as a cash crop, not only in the country but in the African continent as well, but several biotic and abiotic factors continued to devastate it, leading to low and unprofitable yields.

Processors reminded about thorough food inspection

Entrepreneurs engaged in spices, honey and mango production have been urged to carry out food inspection before processing to ensure food safety for consumers.

An International Trade Centre (ITC) Consultant on Food Safety, Margaret Kola, told a just-ended workshop on Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) for entrepreneurs which was held in dare s Salaam to discuss international food standard requirements.

Dar: A city with ancient graveyards, yet still in use

Shortage of land to bury the dead in the city of Dar es Salaam is real. Ironically, although death is a universal fact of life, yet little attention is given to it by the city fathers in the way of allocating new burial sites on one hand, and strict protection of old cemeteries to prevent encroachment, on the other.

In many parts of the city, for example, construction of residential houses and other structures on or very close to cemetery land is common.

In some areas people encroach with abandon on parcels of land reserved for the dead while city authorities turn a blind eye. Cemeteries in Dar es Salaam are no longer ‘sacred’ places, with tales doing the rounds that twilight women often turn them into temporary lodges in serving their customers.

Vacate before demolitions, Majaliwa tells valley dwellers

                                                Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa

Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa yesterday sounded another strong warning to all city residents residing in flood prone valleys to vacate their premises on their own before demolitions catch up with them.

The premier said making a move on their own would ensure the safety of their properties and avoid being on the line in case of floods as that would be to risk their lives.

The new appeal echoed statements by the Tanzania Metrological Agency (TMA) lately that a number of regions including Dar es Salam will receive heavy rainfall with likelihood of far reaching impact on daily lives.

Tanzania introduces remote technology to monitor crops

The National Food Security Division in the Ministry of Agriculture Livestock and Fisheries in collaboration with the Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA) and University of Maryland (USA) is implementing a project aiming at transforming agricultural sector through a technological breakthrough based on crop monitoring.

The project, Spurring Transformation for Agriculture through Remote Sensing (STARS) adapts and develops advanced remote sensing techniques and applications for monitoring crop conditions in collaboration with the end-user community.

Former Tanzanian president Mkapa on tour of Zimbabwe

                                         Former Tanzanian president Benjamin Mkapa

 Former Tanzanian president   Benjamin Mkapa arrived in Zimbabwe last Sunday for a week-long visit, where he is also expected to meet with President Mugabe.

 

  Mkapa was met at the Harare International Airport by Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko, Foreign Affairs Minister Simbarashe Mumbengegwi and the Minister of Defence Dr Sydney Sekeramayi.

Blind eye on Pemba source of Z'bar turmoil

Zanzibar President Ali Mohamed Shein (L), Zanzibar Electoral Commission ( ZEC) Chairman Jecha Salim Jecha (M) and Seif Sharif Hamad (R)

 Zanzibar has been in turmoil long enough with numerous accounts surfacing in attempts to describe the situation and explain the reasons behind the never-ending squabbles.

Exhausted groundwater puts the world at risk

  "There's not an infinite supply of water and we need to get our heads together on how we manage groundwater because we are running out of it"

 It is less than six months since the government decided to drill eight wells that would supply clean and safe water to residents in Nanjirinji A village in Kilwa district, Lindi Region, as part of its effort to improve welfare status.

Earlier the villagers used to fetch water from dubious sources, a distance away. Though the village had not experienced any outbreak of waterborne diseases, the leaders opted for an option that would guarantee better quality.

TSA seeks land for swimming pool

                 Swimmers compete during a tournament in Dar es Salaam.

 Tanzania Swimming Association (TSA) has presented its request to the government to provide them with land so that they can build a modern Olympic-standard swimming pool

Woman gets four years in jail for killing own mother

 The High Court in Dodoma yesterday sentenced Kashinje Nkanda, a resident of Ujungu Village in Iramba District, to four years in prison for killing her mother.

 

Nkanda confessed before the court that she killed her mother, Ngembe Salum after she forced her to get married to a man with whom she (Nkanda) has no affection.

 

Nkanda also told the court that her mother would not allow her to sell a cow to get money for treatment from a traditional healer.

Will Tanzania's leaders keep their word and listen to Eva?

 "This is particularly challenging for girls like Eva, who, in the developing world, are often denied equal access to education and are hit hardest by the effects of extreme poverty,"

                                                        Eva Tolage

 

 On thursday this week a  young Tanzanian girl Eva Tolage (15) (pictured) from Mlowa school in Malinzanga village of Iringa district launched  a campaign and petition to ask her leaders to keep their word and help her community get clean water, and electricity among other things.

Where are the famous govt schools?

                                      

                                     Some A-level schools likely to miss students

 

Secretary of National Examinations Council of Tanzania (NECTA), Dr Charles Msonde

 The Form IV results released on Thursday by the National Examinations Council of Tanzania (NECTA) have painted a gloomy picture on performance trends of government schools that used to make headlines in the past.

Varsity regulator's axe claims its first victim

TCU has revoked St Joseph University in Tanzania's accreditation barely five years since its establishment, citing gross underperformance.

                                 Tanzania Commission for Universities (TCU)

 More than 2,000 students of St Joseph University in Tanzania (SJUIT) will be transferred to other higher learning institutions with immediate effect following revocation of its accreditation and subsequent closure of its two constituent colleges on underperformance grounds

Zanzibar will never be the same again come March 20

Reports from Pemba Island , a stronghold of the Zanzibar opposition, have said the islanders have been waiting for a whistle from their iconic leader,  the Civic United Front (CUF) general secretary and  presidential contender in the annulled October 25 election, Maalim Seif Shariff Hamad, to “take appropriate action” as an answer to the Zanzibar Election Commission’s (ZEC) decision to impose election repeat on March 20.

Wema Sepetu pregnancy good news for her fans, but risks abound

 

               

Controversial actress and model Wema Sepetu is reportedly expectant, something that has shattered a pernicious myth in the social media and yellow tabloids, that she is not capable of conceiving on account of having had abortions earlier.

EU referendum: Cameron deal talks continue through night

Talks on reform of the UK's place in the EU continued in the early hours after Downing Street said there was "real hard work to do overnight".

Govt releases rare wild dogs into Serengeti to boost population

The Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism, Prof Jumanne Maghembe

 The government has released 17 new wild dogs into the Serengeti National Park in its efforts to replenish the diminishing number of the opportunist predators in the country’s wildlife sanctuaries.

President Magufuli bans sugar imports

President John Magufuli

  President John Magufuli has banned sugar imports to protect the local sugar industry, which for many years has been hard hit by the continued supply of cheap and illegal sugar from abroad.

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