Tanzania

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 [.

GOOD RESULTS, SAYS IMF

Results of the six-month shadow reform programme (concluded last month) which the International Monetary Fund and the Tanzanian government had [...]

THE MARKET FOR PRESIDENTIAL JETS

French aircraft maker Dassault is competing against several other constructors on the restricted market of aircraft for East African heads [...]

CUSTOMS WAR

Since the beginning of the year, Zanzibar businessmen have been complaining that more than 360 containers bound for the island [...]

THE CCM DEBT WITH NBC

Tanzania's government party Chama cha Mapinduzi (CCM) has finally confessed to having run up a debt of 100 million Tanzanian [...]

ZANZIBAR SPREADS ITS WINGS

The government of Zanzibar is on the point of setting up an independent unit of Tanzania Harbours Authority, which will [...]

GREEN LIGHT FOR LOAN

The World Bank is expected to approve a loan from the International Development Association (IDA) for Tanzania's mining industry this [...]