Tanzania

EXTENSIVE ELECTRIFICATION PROJECT

The World Bank has pledged to financed half of an electrification programme in Tanzania estimated to cost a total of [...]

HASSAN DIRIA

The Tanzanian minister for labour and youth is on a list recently published by the authorities, bearing the names of [...]

The World Bank-affiliate International Development Association (IDA), announced on June [...]

CHRISTOPHER MTIKILA

The leaders of the Democratic Party (DP, opposition) in Tanzania [...]

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TROUBLED TIMES FOR CCM

While multiparty elections in Tanzania are closer to becoming a reality (local municipal elections at the end of this year and a general election scheduled for 1995), the government party, the Chama cha Mapinduzi (CCM), is finding it hard to [.

PRIVATE FRENCH PROJECTS

The director of the east Africa department at Proparco, the private sector arm of the Caisse Française de Développement (CFD), [...]

EMBASSY CLOSURES

According to diplomatic source in Dar es Salaam, the governments of Rwanda, Burundi, Zaire, Angola and Mozambique, have expressed disappointment [...]

WILFREM MWAKITWANGE

Chairman of the Tanzania Chamber of Commerce Industries and Agriculture (TCCIA), already a target for criticism from some Tanzanian business [...]

TCPL AND OCELOT ON SONGO-SONGO

Trans-Canada Pipe Lines (TCPL), a leading company in its field in Canada, has teamed up with Ocelot International for the [...]

PARALLEL SHILLING TAKES A TUMBLE

The rate of the Tanzanian shilling on the parallel market has sharply depreciated against the dollar since the beginning of [...]

Representatives of two Canadian companies, Ocelot and Trans Canada Pipelines, [...]

DE BEERS TAKES OVER WILLIAMSON

De Beers is poised to take over Williamson Diamonds, Prime Minister John Malecela declared after receiving a delegation from the [...]

LOWER BUDGET FOR 1993-1994

The Tanzanian government has fixed its budget for 1993-1994 at 300 billion shillings (919 million dollars). This is lower than [...]

PRIVATIZATION AGAINST RACIAL FEARS

In a presentation on privatization of public enterprises and ownership issues at a recently-held conference of managers from the National [...]

STUDENT STRIKE AT MOROGORO

The Tanzanian government last week suspended 29 students from Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA) in Morogoro, a town about a [...]

The Nottinghamshire Chamber of Commerce and Industry is to send [...]

AN ISLAMIC NETWORK

According to information out of Tanzanian government circles, at least 500 youths are believed to have registered in Dar es [...]

Norwegian horticultural consultant Halvdan Jacobsen has been selected to carry [...]

DUEL PROJECT STUDIED

The African Development Bank (ADB) has offered Burundi and Tanzania a loan worth nearly $814,000 out of the coffers of [...]