updated Fri. January 26, 2024
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Eyewitness News
April 27, 2018
DAR ES SALAAM - Tanzanians largely ignored on Thursday a US-based activist's call to stage nationwide protests against President John Magufuli's government. Nine demonstrators marched in Tanzania's commercial capital, Dar es Salaam, on Thursday. They were quickly arrested. Mange Kimambi, aÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
April 26, 2018
Tanzanian protest fails amid heavy police presence. Anti-government protests ... Anti-government protests organised through social media against new cyber laws have flopped in Tanzania after authorities deployed heavy police presence in the streets and threatened to use force. Critics have raisedÃâà...
Voice of America
April 26, 2018
The 38-year-old mother of three uses her Instagram account to berate the Tanzanian government, its president and other officials, and to rally her 1.8 million followers to demonstrate Thursday in Tanzania and at its embassies around the world. Magufuli has warned that security forces would clamp down onÃâà...
World Politics Review
April 20, 2018
In March, Tanzania's government imposed sweeping new regulations restricting online media, including requiring a license to run a blog that costs $930—more .... On the other hand, there is little pushback from the international community despite efforts by Tanzanian civil society to keep them informed.
CNN (blog)
April 12, 2018
(CNN) As part of sweeping new internet regulations, the Tanzanian government has introduced a $930 fee for those wanting to have an online blog, giving the ... The state-run Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA) said in a statement bloggers and content providers have until May 5 toÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
March 30, 2018
Dr Akwilapo expressed the government's stance while officiating a teachers' meeting focusing on Reading, Writing and Counting in Tanzania Mainland. According to him, it was not proper for pupils to have their primary education reduced, insisting that the government's plan was to have all TanzanianÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
March 30, 2018
Zanzibar — THE Minister for State in the Second Vice President's Office, Mr Mohamed Aboud Mohamed has underscored the need for Zanzibar Government Printing Press Agency workers to undergo special training to cope with modern printing technologies. Mr Mohamed made the remarks during a briefÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
March 30, 2018
Tanzania's mortgage market is among the smallest in the East Africa (the ratio of outstanding mortgage debt to GDP is 0.33 per cent as at December 31, 2017) with only 4.5 per cent of Tanzanian adults aged 15 and above having a mortgage loan according to 2014 Findex report. Tanzania has an acuteÃâà...
The Standard
March 30, 2018
A Tanzanian man has spent the last four years on the no man's land located between Tanzania and Kenya as he fights against deportation. Anudo Anudo had his passport taken by the the Tanzanian government who then cancelled it, deleted it from the register and then deported him to Kenya. In turnÃâà...
Upstream Online
March 30, 2018
Anglo-Dutch supermajor Shell is in talks with Tanzania's government to secure an extension to gas-rich Block 4, one of three offshore areas destined to supply feedstock to a proposed liquefied natural gas plant at Lindi. The news came amid indications from one of the supermajor's partners that theÃâà...
BirdLife International
March 21, 2018
The Government of Tanzania has decided against building a soda ash factory on the shores of Lake Natron, thus ending a ten-year struggle of the fate of ... The threat to Lake Natron first came up in 2006 when Tata Chemical Industries and the Tanzanian Government's National Development CorporationÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
March 16, 2018
The government of France would also support teaching of French in Tanzania's higher institutions of learning. Representatives of higher learning institutions from the two countries started a series of meetings in Dar es Salaam yesterday, to chart models of implementing the partnership between TanzanianÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
March 16, 2018
Dar es Salaam — The government is set to collect over Sh12 billion annually in tax from a newly launched cigarette manufacturing firm, Phillip Morris Tanzania. Speaking at the ... "Establishment of this firm in Morogoro justifies our long-term vision and commitment to invest on Tanzanian soil. I commend theÃâà...
ITWeb Africa
March 16, 2018
Talks have started between the Tanzanian government and India's Bharti Airtel over the ownership of Airtel Tanzania. The Tanzanian government has initiated a move to repossess Airtel Tanzania at the directive of President John Magufuli over claims that there were irregularities in switching the shares ofÃâà...
Hyperallergic
March 16, 2018
Officials from the nation of Tanzania have joined an international movement demanding the return of skeletons stolen from Africa by German colonists. Tanzanian activists, and at least one government official, want Germany to repatriate the skull of Chief Songea Mbano, a leader who rebelled against theÃâà...
The Economist
March 15, 2018
The government soon fired and charged officials who were implicated. Tanzania is Africa's third-largest recipient of Western aid (and the largest per person); 10-15% of its revenues come from Western countries as fungible “budget support”. Multilateral donors are still tripping over one another to give itÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
March 15, 2018
Dar es Salaam — Turkish government has pledged more support to its Tanzanian counterpart with the view to strengthen economic ties between the two countries. This was said by Turkish ambassador to Tanzania, Mr Ali Davutoglu, when addressing participants during the ceremony to lay the foundationÃâà...
African Arguments
March 15, 2018
At the fourth hotel, the manager notified me one night that “some government people” had been asking about me. He warned me that two of them, ... Several Tanzanian citizens have been charged with cybercrimes for criticising Magufuli online, and at least two have been convicted. Bob Wangwe, a humanÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
March 11, 2018
The government of Tanzania will re-demarcate its territorial border with Kenya and Uganda by replacing dilapidated and missing beacons. Deputy Minister for Lands Angelina Mabula said the exercise would start on March 22. The minister had inspected the border between Kenya and Tanzania last weekÃâà...
Grand Island Independent
March 11, 2018
In order to even go to Tanzania, Niemoth said she and her brother had to be invited. They were invited by a Tanzanian pastor and his wife. Niemoth said the pastor and his wife wrote a letter to the Tanzanian embassy so the Niemoths could get a visa and permission to come into the country. She said it tookÃâà...
africanews
March 11, 2018
It urged Tanzania's government to tackle the bad debts as a priority to reduce financial sector vulnerabilities and revive credit growth. The (central) Bank of Tanzania revoked the licences of five “critically undercapitalised” community banks in January to protect financial stability in the country. The closure ofÃâà...
Creamer Media's Mining Weekly
March 10, 2018
Magnis chairperson Frank Poullas said the ongoing support provided to us by the Tanzanian government crystallised the value of the Nachu project and established MTT as an approved graphite processor in Tanzania. “We look forward to progressing development at Nachu and bringing considerableÃâà...
Investing News Network
March 10, 2018
Magnis Resources Limited (“Magnis” or the “Company”) (ASX:MNS) is pleased to advise that agreement has been reached with the Government of Tanzania (GOT) on amendments to the Special Economic Zone (SEZ) licence, granted to Magnis Technologies Tanzania Ltd (MTT), a 100% owned subsidiaryÃâà...
Xinhua
March 10, 2018
DAR ES SALAAM, March 9 (Xinhua) -- Tanzanian President John Magufuli warned on Friday that punitive steps will be taken against anyone who tries ... allow my government's economic reforms to be derailed by street protests," Magufuli told a public rally at his home district of Chato in western Tanzania,Ãâà...
Catholic News Agency
February 14, 2018
Tanzanian president John Magufuli inspects the military shortly after his inauguration in Dar es Salaam, Nov. 5, 2015 ... The bishops of Tanzania spoke out this week against the suppression of several constitutional freedoms within the country, saying the government is becoming responsible for threateningÃâà...
Okayafrica
December 31, 1999
The Tanzanian government continues to crackdown on online content creators with added restrictions to its internet regulation policy. ... In a statement released earlier today, the state-owned Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA) noted a May 5 deadline for applicants to submit their paperÃâà...
Mining MX
December 31, 1999
Barrick Gold is proposing a 50/50 split between subsidiary Acacia Mining and the government of Tanzania of the “economic benefits generated by Acacia's operations.” In its March quarterly report published in Toronto on April 23 the Canadian major gold producer – which holds a 64.9% stake in AcaciaÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
December 31, 1999
Dar es Salaam — The government will review some taxes and levies with the view of improving Tanzania's business environment. The move will be a key factor in attracting more investments and hence give the much-needed boost to the country's industrialisation agenda, the minister for Industry, TradeÃâà...
Gizmodo
December 31, 1999
Tanzania issued a warning over the weekend that all online media creators, including everything from online radio providers to bloggers, have just two weeks to register with the government. Registration and license fees add up to about $920, roughly what the average Tanzanian earns in an entire year.
