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Almost all senior officials of various ministries have shifted to Dodoma ahead of the deadline by President John Magufuli , the Daily News has learnt. Dr Magufuli had issued an executive order, directing the government to move its seat to Dodoma within his first term as occupant of the country's highest office. Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa echoed the directive, declaring February as the deadline for all ministers, their deputies, permanent secretaries and some head of departments to officially set up permanent offices and residences in the designated capital. As the deadline expires today, 16 of the 19 ministries have already officially moved to Dodoma with between 40 and 200 officials. The Ministries of Water and Irrigation; and Foreign Affairs and East African Cooperation are the new arrivals, having reported here over the weekend. The ministries, which have permanently moved to Dodoma are Regional Administration and Local Government; and Public Service Management ...

DAR ES SALAM: The UAE Zayed Giving Initiative’s volunteer medical team has inaugurated the first phase of the humanitarian missions of the UAE-Tanzanian Mobile Hospital, which provides diagnostic, therapeutic and preventive service in several areas of Tanzania.

This is part of the Tanzanian government’s move to enforce the ban on the sachet-packed liquor, which came into effect on Wednesday under two ordinances: the National Environment Management 2004 and Intoxicating Liquors Act, 1968 and its 2012 amendments. “The operation to enforce the ban on production, sale, and use of alcohol packed in plastic sachets will be carried out all over the country from March 2, this year, through safety and security committees and environmental protection committees at regional, district, division, ward, village and Mtaa levels,” said January Makamba, Tanzania’s Minister of State in the Vice President’s Office for Union Affairs and Environment. He added: “These committees are required to submit their report during and after the operation to the President’s Office (Regional Administration and Local Government) and copy to the Vice President’s Office.” The operation is likely to be a showdown because since the notice of the ban was issued, busine...

The Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) monitors trends in staple food prices in countries vulnerable to food insecurity. For each FEWS NET country and region, the Price Bulletin provides a set of charts showing monthly prices in the current marketing year in selected urban centers and allowing users to compare current trends with both five-year average prices, indicative of seasonal trends, and prices in the previous year. Maize is the main staple crop in Tanzania. Rice and beans are also very important, the latter constituting the main source of protein for most low- and middleincome households. Dar es Salaam is the main consumer market in the country. Arusha is another important market and is linked with Kenya in the north. Dodoma represents the central region of the country, a semi-arid, deficit area. Mtwara sits in a south coastal deficit area while Songea and Mbeya represent the southern highlands. Tanga is also a coastal town in the north, with trade connect...

TANZANIA on Monday backed out of its plan to publish a list of names of gay people accused of selling sex online, saying this would "destroy evidence". Deputy health minister Hamisi Kigwangalla had called a press conference on Monday to publicise the list, after announcing the plan earlier this month.

Vodacom Group’s Tanzanian unit plans to raise 476 billion shillings ($213 million) in a share sale, the first of a series of initial public offerings by telecommunications companies on the domestic stock exchange this year. The company plans to sell 560 million shares at 850 shillings each after it received approval on Tuesday from the Capital Markets and Securities Authority, Godfrey Gabriel, head of corporate and market research at lead manager Orbit Securities, said by phone from the commercial capital, Dar es Salaam. Charles Shirima, a spokesman for the regulator, confirmed approval had been granted. Tanzania in June enacted a law requiring phone companies to sell at least a 25% stake of their units in the country on the Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange to boost local ownership. The industry has more than quadrupled its subscriber base over the past decade to more than 40 million users, according to the industry regulator. Vodacom is the country’s largest operator with 31% m...

Mara — Three artisanal miners are believed to have died in a gold pit at the Buhemba mining area in Butiama District of Mara Re gion, the police force in Mara Region confirmed on Monday afternoon. Until yesterday noon, rescuers were still working to retrieve the dead bodies from the gold pit, according to the Mara Regional Police Commander (RPC) Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Jafari Mohamed.

Efforts by Quality Group Limited and Golden Globe International Service to challenge revision proceedings on the disputed 13bn/- transaction in the sale of 34,479 shares in Mic Tanzania Limited, trading as Tigo, flopped yesterday. The Court of Appeal dismissed all grounds of objections the two companies had raised against the proceeding hearing, following a complaint by Millicom (Tanzania) NV, which claims to legally own the shares in question.

Powering Potential Inc.  (PPI) aims to enhance education opportunities for students in Tanzania with the help of the Raspberry Pi and open source technology. “I believe technology is a vital part of the modern human experience. It enlightens. It ties us together. It broadens our horizons and teaches us what we can be. I believe everyone deserves access to these resources,” says Janice Lathen, Founding Director and President of PPI. The project’s three main technology goals are: Providing access to offline digital educational resources Providing schools with technology infrastructure (computers and solar power) so that they can offer the national curriculum of Information and Computer Studies Offering technology training In their efforts to achieve these goals, PPI also promotes the values of cooperation and community. We spoke with Lathen to learn more. Linux.com: Please tell our readers about the Powering Potential program. What inspired you? Janice Lathen:...

Tanzania on Monday backed out of its plan to publish a list of names of gay people accused of selling sex online, saying this would "destroy evidence". Deputy health minister Hamisi Kigwangalla had called a press conference on Monday to publicise the list, after announcing the plan earlier this month. "We cancelled the press conference. We are not going to announce the names of (LGBTs) who publicly market themselves for technical reasons," he wrote on Twitter. "For strategic reasons and to avoid destroying evidence we will deal with this issue differently and will keep you informed at every step." He also said that releasing the names would be akin to "freeing a devil in a bottle." ANTI-GAY RHETORIC Kigwangalla's threat to publish such a list came just days after the government announced it was stopping many privately run health centres from providing AIDS-related services, which Health Minister Ummy Mwalimu said ...

Have you noticed these days not much is seen on TV, heard on radio or talked about in public regarding the AIDS epidemic? Maybe it is no longer a major economic and social problem but it has certainly disappeared from the radar. And you know every time you hear of a plane that disappeared from the radar, the likelihood for survival of passengers and crew is scant. So where did our AIDS jumbo jet fly to?

Tanzania Demands Study On Impact of EU Trade Deal Tanzania wants a study conducted on the impact of the Economic Partnership Agreement with the European Union on the East African Community, ahead of the Summit of Heads of State scheduled for next month. The demand reiterates Tanzania's position that Kenya and Rwanda should not have signed the EPA last year and, given the inadequate time before the summit, there won't be much progress on the matter before April 1, when the EU expects the EAC to sign up to the accord. In an EAC Sectoral Council of Ministers' meeting on trade, industry, finance and investment held in Arusha this month, Tanzania demanded that the EAC Secretariat conduct an analysis on the effects of the EPA on the Community. This, Dar es Salaam said, would bring about regional perspectives on the concerns they have raised with Burundi. "The results will guide the ministers' and presidents' decision on the EPA in the next summit or even at...

The United States Geological Survey ( USGS ) reported that an earthquake hit northern Zambia early on Friday. According to the  USGS , the magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck the southern area of Lake Tanganyika adding that the epicentre of the quake was in a national park area located in the north. The quake, which struck at 2:32 a.m. (0032  GMT ), could be felt across the lake in Tanzania and to the north in the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo, the  USGS  said. It was however considered as shallow due to its depth of only 6.2 miles (10 kilometres). The last earthquake to have hit the region killed six people in the  DRC ’s Bakavu region. Before that one, 19 deaths were recorded in Tanzania’s Kagera region located in the country’s north-west when a magnitude 5.7 quake hit the region. The September 10 earthquake also destroyed properties and rendered hundreds homeless.The tremor hit Bukoba close to the western shore of Lake Victoria and Nsunga...

It is no secret that pharmacies in Dar es Salaam are full of imported medicine. Not that they care not to stock locally made products, but more often than not consumers, when visiting the facilities even for over the counter medicine like painkillers, they ask for products made outside Tanzania. The irony of all these is that, as we refuse to consume medicine made in Tanzania, many of our kinsmen readily do take "medicine" made by the "witchdoctors" and sometimes half baked traditional healers, who don't even know the names of the elements in the mixtures they use to treat patients! When Premier Kassim Majaliwa appeared in the press, denouncing Manyara manufactured Minjingu fertilizer bag, labelled 'made in Kenya', he was not amused. He ordered the company to write an apology letter to the President. The factory management tried in vain to explain to the Premier that, they had agreed with the distributors the fertilizer be packaged th...

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Akizungumza na waandishi wa habari jijini Dar es Salaam juzi, Kamanda wa jeshi hilo kanda maalumu ya Dar es Salaam, Simon Sirro, alisema kuwa kuanzia sasa, ni marufuku kwa bodaboda kuegeshwa kwenye vituo vyao maalumu kwa ajili ya kusubiri abira baada ya muda huo, lengo likiwa ni kuimarisha usalama wao na watu wengine jijini Dar es Salaam.  Akifafanua, Kamanda Sirro alisema kuwa wamelazimika kutoa agizo hilo baada ya kubaini kuwapo kwa matukio mengi ya uhalifu yanayohusisha uporaji wa bodaboda kutoka kwa madereva hao nyakati za usiku. Kwa mujibu wa Kamanda Sirro, haingii akilini kwa madereva wa bodaboda kuendelea kukaa kwenye vijiwe wakisubiri abiria usiku kucha ilhali ikifahamika wazi kuwa baada ya saa 6:00 usiku huwa hakuna abiria wa kuwasubiri hasa kutokana na ukweli kuwa watu walioko kwenye maeneo ya starehe kama baa huwa tayari wameshaondoka baada ya maeneo hayo kufungwa kila inapofikia mida hiyo.  Siyo nia yetu kuzungumzia kwa undani juu ya agizo hilo. Bali, t...

Kwa mujibu wa Jeshi la Polisi mkoani Rukwa, msako huo ambao umefanyika hivi karibuni katika wilaya zote na kusimamiwa na kamati za ulinzi na usalama, mashamba ya bangi yenye ukubwa wa ekari 19 yameteketezwa kwa moto na bangi yenye uzito wa kilo 15 na misokoto 105 ya bangi imekamatwa ambapo heroin iliyokuwa ikisafirishwa kutoka jijini Mbeya kwenye mjini Sumbawanga imekamatwa. Mkuu wa Kitengo cha Upelelezi mkoani Rukwa, Mtatiro Nyamhanga ametangaza rasmi vita dhidi ya dawa za kulevya mkoani humo huku wakazi wa kijiji cha Msila ambacho ni maarufu kwa kilimo cha bangi wakiungana na Mwenyekiti wao kulishukuru Jeshi la Polisi kwa msako huo huku wakiwasihi wanaojihusisha na kilimo hicho haramu kuacha mara moja.

MKUU wa wilaya ya Kinondoni mkoani Dar es Salaam, Ali Hapi, ametoa onyo kwa wamiliki wa baa wanaowahifadhi watu wanaojihusisha na biashara ya ngono ‘Machangudoa’ kuwa watafutiwa leseni. Ametoa agizo hilo baada ya kupokea malalamiko kutoka kwa wananchi wa kata ya Kijitonyama waliodai kuwa kuna baadhi ya baa zimekuwa zikiwahifadhi wanaouza miili, hali ambayo ni hatari kwa mazingira na makuzi ya watoto. Hapi amesema haiwezekani serikali iwe inapambana na biashara hiyo haramu lakini kuna baadhi ya baa zinawafuga machangudoa. "Tutashughulika na changudoa na tutashughulika na wenye baa zinazowahifadhi machangudoa, kwa sababu hili ni suala lililo kinyume cha sheria, serikali inapambana na hili tatizo halafu mwingine analikumbatia, hilo haliwezekani, tutawachukulia hatua za kisheria," amesema. Awali, akitoa malalamiko yake kupitia mkutano wa hadhara uliofanyika katika viwanja vya shule ya Sekondari ya Mama Salma Kikwete, mkazi wa Kijitonyama alidai kuna baa zilizogeuka ke...

Amewaombea wananchi wa kijiji cha Pingo maji kwa mwekezaji wa kiwanda cha kutengeneza vigae cha Twyford, anayetarajia kuyavuta kutoka mto Ruvu hadi kiwandani kwake. Ridhiwani ameomba ombi hilo mwishoni mwa wiki wakati wa uwekaji wa jiwe la msingi katika kiwanda hicho uliofanywa na Waziri wa Viwanda, Biashara na Uwekezaji, Charles Mwijage. Amesema wananchi hao wamekuwa na shida ya maji kwa kipindi kirefu tangu nchi ipate uhuru, hivyo wakati muwekezaji huyo atakapovuta maji katika kiwanda chake awasaidie na wananchi hao kupata huduma hiyo. "Mheshimiwa Waziri tuna tatizo la maji, wananchi wa kijiji hiki wamesubiri maji tokea uhuru, tunaomba utuombee kwa mwekezaji wakati akiyavuta kutoka mto Ruvu, wananchi nao wafaidike," alisema Mbunge huyo huku akipongezwa na wananchi wake. Hata hivyo, wakati wa akitoa hotuba yake, Mwijage alimuomba mwekezaji huyo kusaidia kuwapamaji wananchi hao, jambo alilolikubali kulitekeleza kwa gharama zake. Mwijage alifafanua kuwa kiwand...

In Tanzania, "zeruzeru" ("zero zero" in Swahili) and referred to as "ghosts" or "ghost people". There are widespread myths that albinos have magic powers and they are being hunted for their body parts that can bring in up to $75,000. Tanzania is one of the countries known to be involved in the cross-border   trafficking of the body parts   of persons with albinism, alongside Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Kenya, Mozambique, Malawi, South Africa and Swaziland.

Fury over TCU blacklist Experts discover Earth-like planets around single star When she gave birth on daladala  I'm leaving CCM to fight for democracy Sadc urges support for DRC to conduct polls

TCU yanawa mikono wanafunzi wasio na sifa Bei ya "unga" yapanda mtaani Mjane wa Msuya aachiwa huru, akamatwa Serikali kujadili walimu 4,000 wa sayansi