Tanzania

INDUSTRY, MINING AND ROAD FUNDS FROM WORLD BANK

The International Development Association (IDA) a World Bank affiliate, is proposing to lend Uganda 40 million dollars to the ministry [...]

VOLTAGE DROPS, TEMPERS RISE

While crossing their fingers and hoping that rains will come on time and allow Tanzania Electric Supply Corporation (Tanesco) to [...]

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NEW FRONT LINE

Aid from the Sudanese government to the extension of Islamic fundamentalism in Eastern Africa is becoming an increasingly greater source of concern to different circles. Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania, moving slowly down the road to multi-party political systems and economic [.

WIDE SUPPORT FOR CUF ON PEMBA

Most provisionally legalised opposition parties will have a hard time finding the two hundred members on Pemba they need to [...]

AMRAN MAYAGILA

The Tanzanian minister of agriculture is going to be in [...]

The African Development Bank (ADB), recently approved several financing projects, [...]

According to World Bank Watch newsletter, the Bank is considering [...]

EURO FUNDING FOR ROAD PROJECT

The European Community has approved a regional aid loan of 48 million ecus (about 64 million dollars) under the Lome [...]

PLURALIST LOCAL ELECTIONS IN 1993

On his return from an international seminar on "good governance" in Cotonou, Benin, and a stopover in Paris where he [...]

HOSTING IRANIAN TRADE FAIRS

The Iranian trade representative in Kenya, Ali Daryanian announced that a ten-day Iranian trade fair is to be held in [...]

AIR COMPANIES SEEK LANDING PERMITS

Independent Tanzanian weekly publication, Business Times reports that five airline companies are seeking to obtain authorisation to operate in Tanzania, [...]

EDWIN ISSAC MBILIENI MTEI

The Party for Democracy and Development whose Swahili name is Chadema recently elected its provisional leaders among whom figure Edwin [...]

WOOING MOSLEM VOTERS

Speaking at the inaugural ceremony of the Lyamungo-Mwowe mosque at Hai in the region of Kilimanjaro last month, Tanzania's President [...]

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AN UNSETTLED CCM

In spite of the facade of unanimity surrounding propaganda like statements concerning "CCM Nambari One" whose victory in the upcoming multi-party elections is almost a foregone conclusion, the Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) national conference, scheduled to take place on December [.

SWEDISH AID 1993-1994

The Swedish International Development Authority (SIDA) intends to raise its overall bilateral aid by five percent in the coming year, [...]

FILI KARASHANI

The managing director of Tanzanian independent weekly magazine, Business Times Fili Karashani, has taken on the post of editor-in-chief of [...]

CONTRACT FOR ATEA-SIEMENS ?

Ateliers de Téléphonie et d'Electricité d'Anvers (ATEA), a Belgian subsidiary of the German company, Siemens, hopes to carry off a [...]

WEEDING OUT A BONAFIDE OPPOSITION

Most western chanceries approached by the leaders of Tanzanian opposition movements seem to have been deaf to their requests for [...]

JAPANESE COOPERATION COOLS DOWN

Pledges and packages from the Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund of Japan (OECF), one of the two Japanese aid and cooperation [...]