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Tanzanian police in road safety drive
There were 13,748 traffic accidents and 2,145 road deaths in Tanzania in the first nine months of 2009 according to recent data from the Tanzanian police force. In an exclusive interview in the daily...
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Tanzania lowers internet rates
Tanzania has become the first country in east Africa to lower internet charges following the arrival of broadband internet in the region, The East African newspaper reports.
Tanzania Telecommunicat...
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Tanzanians go to the polls on 25 October to vote in local government elections across the country.
Voters are called to choose their representatives on city, municipal or town councils in urban are...
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Tanzania is to mark the tenth anniversary of the death of its founding father and first president Mwalimu (meaning
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Tanzania to host World Economic Forum on Africa
Tanzania has seen off competition from Kenya, Ghana and South Africa to be designated host nation for the 20th edition of the World Economic Forum on Africa next year. The meeting will take place in D...
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Fundraising walk for the environment
Rotarians, representatives of the business and diplomatic communities, ordinary citizens and Tanzania
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Specialist maternity hospital for Dar es Salaam
Dar es Salaam is to get a hospital specialising in mother and child health under a partnership between the government and the Comprehensive Community Based Rehabilitation Trust (CCBRT), a Dar-es-Salaa...
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Dar es Salaam could soon have a bus rapid transit system along the lines of the one running in Lagos after the government paved the way for construction of the necessary infrastructure,
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Illegal water siphoning causing erratic supplies
Two locations in the Sinza area of Dar es Salaam have allegedly been found to be the sites of huge illegal water siphoning operations, according to the Daily News.
Water company Dar es Salaam Wate...
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Residents of the middle- and upper-income suburbs north of the centre city area will be affected by power cuts over the coming weeks due to the rehabilitation of two electricity sub-stations in the ar...
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Harambee Plaza opens in Dar es Salaam.
Kenya has a smart new high commission in Dar es Salaam. The so-called Harambee Plaza building in the upmarket Oyster Bay area north of the central business district was formally opened by Kenyan presi...
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Tanzania has joined other African countries including South Africa and begun registering SIM cards to help fight crimes committed using mobile phones. The registration began at the start of July and w...
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Tanzania to retain tax exemptions for religious institutions.
The government has withdrawn plans to abolish tax exemptions for religious organisations and some non-governmental organisations operating in the country following a public outcry.
The plans, contain...
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Tanzania lifts tax relief on religious institutions.
Faith-based schools, colleges, hospitals and other institutions in Tanzania stand to lose their existing special relief on value added tax (VAT) under proposals contained in the 2009-2010 budget prese...
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Tanzania has an estimated road traffic death rate of 34.3 per 100,000 people according to the first
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Alfonso Lenhardt designated new US ambassador.
Retired army officer Alfonso Lenhardt has been nominated by president Barack Obama as the new United States ambassador to Tanzania. The nomination must be confirmed by the US senate before the new env...
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Small-scale miners in Tanzania stand to benefit from a new fund established by the government to assist their activities,
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Children deafened by Mbagala bombs.
Hundreds of children have reported complications as a result of the accidental explosions at an ammunitions store in the Mbagala area of Dar es Salaam on 29 April, which killed at least 20 civilians a...
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Explosions rock Dar es Salaam.
At least three people have been killed and hundreds more injured in a series of explosions at an ammunitions depot in Dar es Salaam.
The blasts occurred around lunchtime on 29 April at an armoury nex...
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Maritime rescue centre launched.
A maritime rescue coordination centre (MRCC) has been launched in Dar es Salaam to oversee the rescue of people in distress at sea. The centre, located in the Tanzania Ports Authority (TPA) traffic co...
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Entrepreneurs day in Dar es Salaam.
Friday 3 April will see the first ever entrepreneurs day dedicated to private sector business in Tanzania,
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Government tackles Dar port congestion.
The government has started moving thousands of containers that are piled up at the port of Dar es Salaam to inland depots as part of efforts to tackle long-running congestion at the docks. Other measu...
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Global finance conference in Dar es Salaam.
Dar es Salaam is to host a global finance conference on 10-11 March under the title
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New British high commissioner to Tanzania.
Diane Corner is the new British high commissioner to the Republic of Tanzania. She replaces Philip Parham, who leaves Tanzania at the end of January after three years in post.
Corner is a career dip...
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Work is underway to build an upper-middle income development of residential units and commercial facilities in the Bahari Beach area 22 km north of the city centre.
The project, known as Bahari Beach...
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The health authorities in Tanzania have taken action to prevent an eruption of the Ebola virus in the country following an outbreak of the potentially fatal haemorrhagic fever in neighbouring Democrat...
