Tanzania

PROJECT TO EXTEND TIPER

With work on refurbishing the Tanzania-Italian Petroleum Refinery (TIPER) set to finish this year, plans are already being considered to [...]

SONGO SONGO TO SUPPLY UBUNGO

The Tanzanian government and Tanzania Electric Supply Corporation (Tanesco) are examining the idea of using the Songo Songo offshore gas [...]

PRE-QUALIFICATION FOR MCHUCHUMA

A short-list of firms pre-qualified to carry out a study [...]

WASTE LUBE OIL RECYCLING

The Scandinavian consultant Vestfold VVS is to carry out the second part of a feasibility study for a plant to [...]

STATE FARM IN BAD SHAPE

Farmers who invaded the Tanzanian state-owned farm of Kahe, in the Kilimanjaro region, with their cattle caused a loss of [...]

CHARLES MUGAMBI

The Tanzania Democratic Alliance (TADEA) national treasurer Charles Mugambi has accused the chairperson of this opposition movement, Mrs. Flora Kambona, [...]

GOVERNMENT REACTION

The Tanzanian authorities have reacted to two articles which appeared in The Indian Ocean Newsletter (ION N° 617) on diplomatic [...]

CHAOS IN THE GOVERNMENT MEDIA

Reginald Mengi, chairman of the board of Tanzania Standard Newspapers Ltd (TSN), publisher of the government's Daily News, has resigned, [...]

JAMES MAPALALA

The twenty-nine members of Civic United Front (CUF, opposition) expelled last month have now issued a public call for the [...]

STUDY ON THE SUGAR PLANT AT KAGERA

The African Development Bank (ADB) is to finance a pre-investment study with a view to rehabilitating and extending the sugar [...]

DIPLOMATIC BREAKDOWN

Ordered to relinquish his post on March 13, before the expiry of his mandate as Tanzania's ambassador to the United [...]

RED ALERT ON CORRUPTION

An informal meeting of fund donors for Tanzania has been held in Paris in the presence of Tanzanian finance minister [...]

A double taxation treaty between Britain and Tanzania which has [...]

DAR TADINE ADMONISHED

A case brought in 1991 by Dar Tadine Tanzania, affiliate of Dar Tadine Umma, was thrown out by an international [...]

Spotlight
THE SOUTH AFRICAN AND CHINESE OUTSIDERS

Times are going to be very hard. With the arrival in East Africa of South African outsiders, of Chinese firms with price dumping in public works sectors, of Japanese companies' renewed aggressiveness in several sectors (telecommunications, electricity distribution, road construction), [.

DIFFICULTIES FOR THE OPPOSITION

The identity crisis among Tanzania's political opposition is continuing and even getting worse. The national treasurer and secretary for finance [...]

CAUGHT REDHANDED

The doyen of the diplomatic corps in Dar-Es-Salaam - and Zaire's ambassador to Tanzania - Pelendo Beledu Mawe, is believed [...]

SCHNEIDER BEEFS UP PROFILE

Schneider has just inaugurated a new commercial representation office in the region, this time at Kitwe in northern Zambia, it [...]

TANELEC IN PARTNERSHIP WITH PROCELIS

Tanelec at Arusha is poised to enter into broadened commercial [...]