30/12/2009 by admin.

More than 28,000 girl of school age dropped out of school over a period of four years, it has been discovered.

Overall, 28,600 youngsters left school before their education was completed from 2004 to 2008, according to statistics compiled by the ministry of education and vocational training, reported AllAfrica.com.
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30/12/2009 by admin.

THE zeal to look beautiful and a colonial mentality that white skin is superior is fast driving Tanzanian women into their graves as they risk their lives by using skin lightening creams that in the end turn lethal.

The problem is not only confined to Tanzania as selling of whitening creams is a lucrative business in Africa worth millions of US dollars a year. In some countries that allow the use of these lethal substances, shelves in pharmacies are stacked high with lotions, creams and soaps all promising to make women whiter and supposedly more beautiful.

But, in countries like Tanzania, where the use and importation of skin lightening creams is banned, the  business is thriving as these dangerous creams are smuggled into the country while dealers on the other hand are discrete. Read the rest of this entry »

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30/12/2009 by admin.

Tanzanian President Mr Jakaya Kikwete revealed he had interrupted his vacation plans because of the visit of the Queen’s Baton 2010 Delhi to his country and said the baton would serve as a reminder for his country’s athletes to start training harder as the start of the XIX Commonwealth Games in Delhi is drawing closer.

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30/12/2009 by admin.

Drama ensued yesterday at Tazara Veterinary market in Dar es Salaam, forcing the police to fire into the air to disperse a group of rioting youths.

One person believed to be a trader at the market, Mr Ally Salange, was shot on the chin and rushed to Temeke District Hospital and was later referred to Muhimbini National Hospital when his condition deterioted.

Policemen had arrived at the scene to arrest youths allegedly for bhang smoking. Read the rest of this entry »

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30/12/2009 by admin.

Political analysts have criticised the Tanzania Labour Party (TLP) chairman, Mr Augustine Mrema, for attacking some paatricipants of the Mwalimu Nyerere Foundation symposium.

Mr Mrema told a press conference in Dar es Salaam on Monday that remarks by some participants against the fourth phase government of President Jakaya Kikwete, threatened national security.

However, many politicians interviewed yesterday by this newspaper, explained that contributors during the symposium, were right to say what they said because they were exercising their rights and fulfilled their responsibilities as patriotic Tanzanians. Read the rest of this entry »

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30/12/2009 by admin.

 A Zanzibari man crouches in a half-built roofless building, struggling to find a vein in his arm, while his friend takes over and injects the heroin for him, drawing blood back into the syringe.

The two are among an estimated 4,000-6,000 narcotics addicts who use syringes to inject themselves in Zanzibar, a tropical archipelago of one million people, better known for tourism and beach holidays than drug abuse.

High rates of HIV among addicts threaten to affect the general population as growth in heroin trafficking through east Africa is making the narcotic more available.

“The problem is the increase in (drug) use. There is not any family that hasn’t been affected by someone taking heroin,” Mahmoud Mussa, coordinator of substance abuse and rehabilitation at the Ministry of Health and Social Affairs, told Reuters.

There is little reliable data on heroin usage. The U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) estimates heroin use in east Africa at between 100,000 and 1.33 million people, twice the proportion of the population using throughout Africa as a whole. Read the rest of this entry »

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29/12/2009 by admin.

 Ivory Coast will play two football friendlies against Tanzania ahead of next month’s African Cup of Nations finals, the Tanzanian football federation (TFF) said on Monday.

The two matches will be played on January 3 and 6 in Dar es Salaam, where the Elephants will hold their final training preparations for the January 10-29 championships in Angola.

“The Ivorians are expected to jet in on January 1, for the trial matches as part of preparations for the African Nations Cup finals in Angola,” TFF official Frederick Mwakalebela said.

Ivory Coasty coach Vahid Halilhodzic on Sunday named his squad of 22 players for the finals, which includes the Chelsea duo of skipper Didier Drogba and Salomon Kalou.

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29/12/2009 by admin.

A recent review on road accident in Tanzania shows that fatality rate per 10,000 vehicles is 30 to 40 times higher than in the safest and highly motorised countries in the world.

?It is also higher compared to some of the neighbouring countries and trading partners including the East African Community and Southern African Development Community (SADC),? according to the report. Read the rest of this entry »

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29/12/2009 by admin.

Positive A/H1N1 flue cases in Tanzania have reached 737 since the first case was reported in early July this year, Tanzanian senior medical official said.

    Out of the above cases, 45 are fresh and quarantined at a special camp in Mwanza Region in northwest Tanzania, the Tanzanian Sunday News quoted Chief Medical Officer Deogratius Mtasiwa as saying.

    Mtasiwa said the fresh patients are all inmates at Butimba Prison, who are under close monitoring and medical care. Read the rest of this entry »

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29/12/2009 by admin.

Government sources indicate that tourist arrivals declined by 10 per cent in the first 10 months of 2009, to reach 576,643 down from 641,951 in 2008.

The UN’s World Tourism Organisation’s 2009 report — World Tourism Barometer projects that the negative trends in international tourism emerged in the second half of 2008 and intensified in 2009 due to the global economic downturn and swine flu pandemic.

According to the report, international tourism dropped by 8 per cent, from 269 million in 2008 to 247 million in the first quarter of 2009. Read the rest of this entry »

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