03/09/2010 by hindu.

POLICE have impounded 51 motor vehicles stolen from various parts of the world in a one day joint operation with the Inter-Pol, Acting Director of Criminal Investigation, Peter Kivuyo, said in Dar es Salaam on Thursday.

Mr Kivuyo said the vehicles were seized in a special exercise dubbed ‘Operation Modjadji’ conducted all over the country between August 27 and 28, aimed to curb crime within and beyond the country’s borders.

He said 22 of the motor vehicles were stolen from Japan, 12 (South Africa), 8 (Malaysia), 3 (UK) and one each from Kenya, Tanzania, Slovenia, Germany, Mozambique and Australia. Read the rest of this entry »

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03/09/2010 by hindu.

CHADEMA Union presidential candidate Dr Wilbrod Slaa, on Thursday defended his intimate relationship with one Ms Josephine Mushumbusi, saying the woman was his legal wife.

Dr Slaa, a former Roman Catholic priest, also confessed publicly that he had an affair in the past with another woman with whom they have one child.

He said when addressing a campaign rally here that he never married this other woman, maintaining that it was his discretion to decide which woman to tie the knot with. Read the rest of this entry »

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03/09/2010 by hindu.

Coordinated conservation measures to arrest the steep decline of stocks of Nile perch in Lake Victoria are showing encouraging results - for fish, if not for fishing communities around the lake. At the end of each day, the boats return to Mwanza, City on the edge of Lake Victoria.

The catch is not what it once was: each boat’s crew quickly sells the 50 or so fish they have landed. Paul Johaiven is one of the fishermen. Like many of the others, the 25-year-old got no further than primary school. For want of alternatives, he turned to the lake to earn a living.
The Nile perch was introduced to the lake in the 1950s while Tanzania was still a British colony. Read the rest of this entry »

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03/09/2010 by hindu.

THE Minister for Infrastructure Development, Dr Shukuru Kawambwa, has challenged local engineers to stay on course, undertake researches and come up with new technology to facilitate attainment of the objectives of Kilimo Kwanza.

Speaking at the celebrations to mark Engineers Day in Dar es Salaam on Thursday, Dr Kawambwa said for farmers to equally implement the policy, they needed to have affordable equipment and technology. He urged the engineers to make sure that such technology was readily and locally available instead of being imported.

“This should be well brainstormed during your two days meeting here. Challenges towards realization of green revolutions are real, but it can be done if you can all play your part,” he said in a speech read on his behalf by his Permanent Secretary, Engineer Omary Chambo. Read the rest of this entry »

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02/09/2010 by hindu.

RESIDENTS in Dar es Salaam have been asked to observe calm on Wednesday as army helicopters will be flying in the region, as part of the commemoration of armed forces week.

The Dar es Salaam Acting Regional Commissioner, Mr Said Sadiki said residents especially in Kigamboni area should remain alert during the exercise.

According to Mr Sadiki, the army will fly several military air crafts in Kigamboni including the army helicopters. Read the rest of this entry »

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01/09/2010 by hindu.

CCM Union presidential candidate Jakaya Kikwete has said that he will continue making development pledges during his campaign rallies despite the petition submitted by CHADEMA to the Registrar of Political Parties for allegedly violating the Election Expenses Act of 2010.

The political party has asked the registrar to disqualify Mr Kikwete for the alleged breach of the act.
However, Mr Kikwete told a campaign rally here on Tuesday that CHADEMA have run out of ideas and wondered how campaign rallies could be conducted without saying anything.

“There are some people who have complained that we keep on making promises at the constituencies. Such speechless campaigns will be very hard to conduct. The people will be left wondering why we are running our campaigns without saying something,’’ he told the rally. Read the rest of this entry »

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01/09/2010 by hindu.

Tanzania lacks competent experts required for addressing the looming poverty and donor dependency in the country, a senior government official said at the weekend.

The deputy permanent secretary in the ministry of Finance and Economic Affairs, Dr Servacius Likwelile, said the government was facing an acute shortage of policy formulation and analysis experts.

He attributed resource management challenges facing the country to the scarcity of the policy formulation and analysis experts. Read the rest of this entry »

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01/09/2010 by hindu.

The Commercial Bank of Africa (CBA) recently hosted a dinner party for Dar es Salaam-based Chinese businesspeople.

“The existence of huge Chinese construction companies as well as manufacturing and trading firms provides an opportunity for CBA to tap into their businesses,” acting chief executive officer Julius Mcharo said. CBA estimates that there are over 10,000 Chinese nationals in Tanzania running 85 companies.

“It is our belief that the huge and increasing presence of Chinese businesses will impact positively on Tanzania’s economy and Tanzanians’ wealth creation …what matters is how are we positioned to offer the services that they suitable to them,” he said. Read the rest of this entry »

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01/09/2010 by hindu.

As election campaigns intensify countrywide with political parties’ presidential, parliamentary and civic candidates competing to woo voters to their side, some of the parties that enlisted to contest are yet to hit the road.

The marked absence from the campaign trail by presidential candidates from parties such as UPDP, NCCR-Mageuzi, APPT-Maendeleo and TLP since the whistle was blown nearly two weeks ago is raising concern over their real intentions in registering and declaring their interests to vie for the highest political office in the land.

There have also been questions over whether these peripheral parties would marshal the necessary machinery and financial muscle to mount credible challenge to the pace setters. Read the rest of this entry »

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31/08/2010 by hindu.

PRESIDENT Jakaya Kikwete has directed the National Food Reserve Agency (NFRA) to increase purchase of food crops from 150,000 to 400,000 tonnes.

The president gave the directive on Monday during his campaign rallies at Matai area in newly established Kalambo District in Rukwa Region and at Tunduma in newly established Momba District in Mbeya Region.

The president’s directive followed pleas by farmers in Rukwa and Mbeya Regions that despite bumper harvests in the two regions, farmers lacked markets for their produce. Read the rest of this entry »

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