Tanzania

IFC COMING UP ROSES

The International Finance Corporation, a World Bank affiliate specialized in private-sector loans has announced its intention to accord two credits, [...]

ALI MAEIR MOHAMED

The assistant secretary general for the islands in the government party Chama cha Mapidunzi (CCM) this week denied, "all participation [...]

POSTPONEMENT OF ELECTIONS CONSIDERED

According to official Tanzanian radio, picked up by the BBC on June 18, the national electoral committee in Tanzania has [...]

The European Development Fund (EDF) has approved two credits for [...]

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WIDER ELECTRICITY PLANS

Negotiations lasting over a year between Tanzania and donor nations have given rise to an electricity programme that goes far beyond the hydroelectric project on the Lower Kihansi for which the first calls to tender were issued in April and [.

MONEY OUT OF EIB IN 1992

According to the 1992 annual report recently issued by the European Investment Bank (EIB), only a third of its credits [...]

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 [...]