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Saba Saba literally translated from Swahili means "Seven Seven" or July 7. Saba Saba is a national holiday in Tanzania and is also known as "Worker's Day", "Industry's Day", or "Peasant's Day". On July 7, 1954 ...

Title: LWF Calls for Peace, Justice, Prayer Amid Zimbabwe Runoff Election ELCA NEWS SERVICE >July 2, 2008 LWF Calls for Peace, Justice, Prayer Amid Zimbabwe Runoff Election 08-103-LT* CHICAGO -- In anticipation ...

The Citizen 4 July 2008 Rodgers Luhwago Dodoma Three CCM legislators yesterday expressed their deep concern over the growing problem of corruption in the country, calling for thorough investigations against ...

Tanzania aims to achieve export-led economic growth rate that will be stimulated by an increase in export of goods and services, while it explores markets at global level based on competitiveness of its ...

The Citizen 3 July 2008 The Opposition yesterday accused the national carrier, Air Tanzania Company Limited , of entering into a suspect agreement and leasing defective aircraft.

Zanzibar, : Begining this year all schools in Zanzibar will be closed during the Holy Month of Ramadhan and in December.

The Citizen Vicent Mnyanyika and Sara John The Civil United Front has called for "an in-depth investigation" of allegations of corruption within the Bank of Tanzania .

The Citizen Rodgers Luhwago Dodoma The Meremeta and Tangold controversy resurfaced in Parliament yesterday.

PUPILS at Brockhampton Primary were captivated by hearing about Tanzania from a special group of visitors on Wednesday afternoon .

The Citizen 26 June 2008 The Government has reiterated its ban on the use of foreign instead of local currency in business transactions.

By Faustine Feliciane Mwanza posted their first win in the on going Africa Zone V Inter-Cities Basketball tourney when they hit Kampala City Council 47-40 in the men`s match played at the Indoor Stadium in Dar ...

Reports that police in Kilimanjaro Region have seized 4,248 tonnes of food as they were about to be smuggled into Kenya serve to show the lengths to which unscrupulous traders are prepared to go to flout the ...

The 11th African Union Summit started on Monday in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh to tackle peace and security in Africa, increase of food and oil prices as well as the situation in Zimbabwe ...

By Costantine Sebastian, Arusha Sub-Saharan Africa is said to have potential to generate up to $100 billion annually from the booming and lucrative global tourism market that currently accounts for nearly 10 ...

The East African 29 June 2008 Wilfred Edwin Nairobi All commercial banks that handled and processed monies and payments related to the Bank of Tanzania's external payments arrears scandal are to be investigated ...

Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe was welcomed by his peers Monday, strolling into an African Union summit where leaders were unlikely to criticize him despite Western calls for them to condemn his widely discredited re-election.

The United States has vowed to bring the issue of Zimbabwe before the U.N. Security Council this week, and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown urged the AU to reject the result of Zimbabwe's presidential runoff.

Mugabe was the sole candidate in Friday's vote. Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai withdrew, saying his supporters had become targets of brutal state-sponsored violence.

A heart transplant survivor has added another first to her long string of mountaineering feats since getting a new heart 13 years ago _ a dangerous 2 1/2-day climb up the sheer, 2,000-foot face of Half Dome, ...

A United Nations envoy is continuing to hold talks with Southern African leaders about the troubled political and humanitarian situation in Zimbabwe, where the run-off round of presidential elections is being ...

A new Mvenpick Resort is to be built near Arusha, Tanzania, by 2011. A management agreement has just been signed with the owning company, Taninvest Group of Companies.

Zimbabwe's battered opposition on Wednesday called for the deployment of thousands of African Union peacekeeping troops to bring order to a nation ravaged by months of political violence as President Robert ...