Tanzania

THE KITTY'S EMPTY

The budget envelope for Fiscal 1993-1994 (ending in June) is already empty and Tanzania's government is facing very serious financial [...]

CFCE MEETING

A breakfast meeting has been organized for March 3 at [...]

The Republic of South Africa's department of commerce and industry [...]

OPPOSITION IN A LAMENTABLE STATE

Five of the opposition political parties which are lining up for the local elections at Ileje and Kigoma are in [...]

The European Development Fund is to allocate ECU 5 million [...]

REVAMP FOR HOSPITALS

The initial calls for bids for rehabilitation work on Muhimbili university hospital centre in Dar-Es-Salaam are expected to be issued [...]

GREAT APPLAUSE FOR CUF IN ZANZIBAR

The Civil United Front has the wind behind it in Zanzibar. According to the opposition movement, whose supporters include the [...]

SITUATION OF WORLD BANK PROJECTS

The World Bank is preparing a number of new financing projects, including two for Tanzania and Uganda. In Tanzania, operations [...]

LOW-DOWN ON A GOLD SWINDLE

The Swahili-language weekly Baraza has blown the whistle on a smuggling ring of gold and foreign currency allegedly implicating a [...]

FAVOURS FROM A MINISTER

Tanzania's Swahili-language weekly Moto Moto recently claimed that the country's prime minister (and first vice-president) John Malecela had used his [...]

EDWARD LOWASSA

The lands minister announced recently that with Tanzania's new system [...]

ADB FUNDING FOR LIGANGA

The African Development Fund (ADF, ADB group) has approved funding for a feasibility study on the iron deposit at Liganga. [...]

OIL PROJECT LAUNCHED

The initial phase in a series of tenders will open this month to select oil storage and pipeline equipment as [...]

FIRST TENDER FOR KIHANSI

The first call to tender for the Lower Kihansi (3 X 60 MW) hydroelectricdal project has been issued concerning civil [...]

LETTER FROM BULK OIL

Should Yogesh Kotak, founder of Bulk Oil, be viewed as [...]

A ROSE BY ANY OTHER NAME

The Zanzibar government is expected to abandon the use of the word "revolutionary" in the official title, as part of [...]

HOUSING SCANDAL IN ZANZIBAR

Government personalities in Zanzibar are suspected of having granted themselves facilities for buying up after their rehabilitation with public monies [...]

The Preferential Trade Area (PTA) secretariat, the United Nations Industrial [...]

MINING FEASIBILITY STUDY

The African Development Fund (ADF, part of the African Development Bank group) is expected to give approval this week to [...]