Tanzania

DUTIES SLAPPED ON ZANZIBAR IMPORTS

The Tanzanian government has announced a sharp drop in customs revenues, that is forcing it to improve collection of import [...]

A DIFFICULT PROJECT TO FINANCE

Several European companies (including Thomson-CSF and Marconi), Japanese, American and South African (MNET) are showing interest in the project to [...]

REGIONAL PROJECTS GET EC AID

At a recently held meeting in Djibouti, regional projects that will benefit from European Community aid were discussed. About ten [...]

French commercial advisers in Eastern Africa and representatives of French [...]

According to a Kiswahili Tanzanian daily, Dar es Salaam Uhuru, [...]

AIRPORT MANAGEMENT TRANSFER

Tanzania's government has decided to hand over the management of its airports to an independent company, according to Lettre d'Afrique [...]

CCM'S NEW EXECUTIVE

The fourth national Chama cha Mapinduzi (CCM) congress saw Ali Hassan Mwinyi re-elected to the presidency of the party for [...]

RECURRING NIGHTMARE FOR ALAF

British firm Comcraft Services Ltd (CSL) that left Tanzania in 1988 after encountering problems with State company Aluminium Africa Ltd [...]

SHAABEN SEIF AMEIR

The chief of police in Zanzibar announced last week, the [...]

GEORGES ROCHICCIOLI

France's former consul general to London (1987-1991) and to Dakar (1984-1987), Georges Rochiccioli has been nominated as ambassador to Tanzania [...]

China has rescheduled a 190 million loan to Tanzania and [...]

GREY MEINZEL

The Eastern Africa regional representative of the French engineering firm, [...]

TANZANIAN SHILLING DEVALUED AGAIN

After having brought the Tanzanian shilling down from 294 to 330 per dollar (US) in July, the Finance ministry decided [...]

RAILWAYS TO GET MAJOR OVERHAUL

The African Development Fund (FAD), part of the African Development Bank (ADB) group is to approve a 29-million dollar loan [...]

JAPANESE AID TO REFUGEES

The Japanese ministry of Foreign Affairs announced last week that it will grant 9.8 million $ to pay for various [...]

TWIN OTTERS UP FOR SALE

Acting on the advice of the World Bank, Tanzanian national airline carrier, Air Tanzania Corporation (ATC) is to put up [...]

ESSENTIAL GRAIN SMUGGLED FOR BEER

The illegal export of grain to Kenya from the Tanzanian region of Kilimanjaro has led to a food shortage threatening [...]

MAIN OPPOSITION REJECTS ELECTIONS

Youth spokesman for one of the main opposition groups in Tanzania, the Civil United Front (CUF) led by James Mapalala [...]

The level of water in Mtera hydroelectric dam has reached [...]