Tanzania News

The Government, faced with a growing budget deficit after it was arm-twisted to re-introduce some tax exemptions it had scrapped in the 2009/10 Budget, has outlined a preliminary plan to close the gap.

The Government plans to make amendments to both the Export Processing Zones and Special Economic Zones Acts, it was said in parliament.

THE Berega Orphanage, a cluster of neat stucco cottages in a village of red dirt roads and maize plots, is a far cry from what the name suggests.

A large-scale drive to improve knowledge of CD4 cell counts among people receiving HIV care in a Tanzanian district resulted in increased uptake of CD4 testing, an increase in treatment initiation and an improvement in patient retention, Tanzanian researchers reported at the HIV Implementers' meeting earlier this month in Namibia.

Imagine living in a city of 300,000 thousand people, but having only one fire truck in case of an emergency.

Some gifts given last year to then-President George W. Bush by foreign leaders, according to the State Department.

The Berega Orphanage, a cluster of neat stucco cottages in this village of red dirt roads and maize plots, is a far cry from what the name suggests.

Tanzania is to audit the finances of all political parties in the country, including the ruling party, in order to prevent dirty money and money laundering tainting the next general election, slated for October 2010.

IT is a challenge in which only one in five attempts are successful. But a former Kings School Worcester pupil has completed a lifetime ambition to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

Nairobi/ Dar Es Salaam - A former Rwandan minister was sentenced on Monday to 30 years in prison for luring thousands of Tutsi civilians to their death during the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

The alleged owner and blogger of the blog Ze Utamu has been arrested in Tanzania.

Moshi, TANZANIA, Jun 18 - With the snow-capped peak of Mount Kilimanjaro providing a backdrop under simmering tropical sunshine, a group of women in Mijongweni village break into song.

African countries have been urged to integrate public administration systems as one way of pooling resources and cushioning themselves against adverse effects of the global recession.

The United Nations has offered to assist next year's general elections in Tanzania, the local daily the African reported on Tuesday.

DODOMA Tanzania will raise spending by 31 percent in 2009/10 to 9.51 trillion shillings , with a third of funding coming from donors, according to Finance Minister Mustafa Mkulo's budget on Thursday.

The Kinyambwiga project lies within License Number PL4653/2007 and covers 30.73 square kilometers in northern Tanzania's Lake Victoria Greenstone Belt.

The Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai is meeting United States President Barack Obama on Friday seeking re-engagement and help for the cash-strapped inclusive government though, he will likely be told more reforms are needed first.

Superstition has led to the killing of more than 60 albinos in Burundi and Tanzania.

The Obama administration on Tuesday transferred its first Guantnamo detainee to U.S. soil by having U.S. marshals move a Tanzanian man from Guantnamo to New York City for trial on capital terror charges.

Bulgaria's Ambassador to France, Irina Bokova, is nominated for the UNESCO Director General post.