EAC, USAID launch project on Cross-Border Health Integrated Partnership

Karen Freeman, USAID/Kenya and East Africa Mission Director. A five-year project on Cross-Border Health Integrated Partnership (CB-HIPP) has been established to extend integrated health...

Read More

Farmers reap from ICT development

Vodafone yesterday published its Connected Farming in India report which concludes that the introduction of six simple mobile services designed to help small-scale farmers in emerging markets could...

Read More

17 refugees die of cholera

Seventeen Burundian refugees being accommodated in Kigoma Region have died from an outbreak of cholera and several others appear to be trapped in a health crisis arising from poor sanitation in...

Read More

Tax breaks cost nation billions every year

Controller and Auditor General, Prof Mussa Juma Assad,  Tanzania loses billions of shillings every year in unwarranted tax exemptions to foreign companies, Controller and Auditor General...

Read More

New drive to boost science learning in public schools

Powering Potential Organisation officials accompanied by their country director Albin Mathias (left) listen to President Jakaya Kikwete when he visited the organisation’s pavilion at the climax...

Read More

Clinton Foundation controversies throw spotlight on nonprofit finances

Addressing participants at the closing session of the Clinton Global Initiative’s Middle East and Africa meeting in Marrakech, Morocco, earlier this month, Bill Clinton invoked what he called the...

Read More

Police call centre launched

Home Affairs Minister Mathias Chikawe yesterday launched a police-public call centre aimed at enhancing communication between the two sides in times of emergency as well as curb crimes by reporting cases before they happen. The centre positioned at the Dar es Salaam Special Zone Police office...

Read More

Over Sh1bn saved as 66 children undergo heart surgery at MNH

Minister for Health and Social Welfare Dr Seif Rashid shakes hands with Cherish Chatama at Muhimbili National Hospital’s Cardiac Centre yesterday. The child underwent a successful heart surgery...

Read More

Fishermen want government intervention to increase income.

Small-scale fishermen around Lake Victoria have raised concern over low fish prices set by fishing agents saying the government need to intervene to enable them raise their income.  They...

Read More

World Bank approves USD45m for small scale miners

The World Bank Group's Board of Executive Directors has approved a new US$45 million credit for Tanzania to improve the socioeconomic impact of large and small-scale...

Read More

NMB supports Hai flood victims

NATIONAL Microfinance Bank (NMB), a has donated different items worth 10m/- to flood victims in Hai in Kilimanjaro Region which left dozens of people homeless. The flood follows heavy rain which has pounded the country last week and in Hai has left dozens of people without basic needs – food and...

Read More

On International Day, UN says more midwife training will help tackle maternity and child deaths

Nearly 800 women continue to die every day from complications of pregnancy and childbirth, the United Nations spotlighted as it marked the International Day of the Midwife with a call...

Read More

ILO-backed programme to give jobs to a million.

The International Labour Organisation (ILO) in collaboration with Tanzania Foundation for Civil Society plans to create more than 800,000 new jobs to cut youth unemployment...

Read More

New report puts Tanzania on ‘list of shame’

A new report has listed Tanzania among seven “corrupt governments” in Africa that support elephant poaching. Other countries on the list are Kenya, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Sudan, Gabon and the...

Read More