Tag Archives: Tanzania

Kenya seeks to dominate in the supply of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) by constructing the biggest import and storage gas facility in Mombasa and licensing more private companies to compete with Tanzania which has dominated the business for years in the region. The announcement to construct a 25,000 tonnes storage …

Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan has defended her usage of loans from multilateral lenders, telling an audience in Accra that the institutions were her country’s lifeline in the Covid-19 pandemic. Samia, appearing on a panel alongside Presidents of Ghana, Mozambique, and Comoros, said the loans received from the International Monetary …

Later this year, Egyptian engineering firm Arab Contractors is expected to complete the construction of the Julius Nyerere dam on the Rufiji River. Once completed, the $3 billion dam could be Africa’s fourth-biggest by power production, producing up to 5920GWH of power annually, enabling Tanzania to close the gap between …

At a time when the number of tourists is low as the world battles the Covid-19 pandemic, Russia seems to be giving Tanzanian tourism players a reason to smile. Traditionally, the number of Russian tourists visiting Tanzania has been almost negligible. The top ten sources of tourists to Tanzania include …

Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan has said there are Covid-19 patients diagnosed in the country in the third wave of the disease, and urged religious leaders to tell believers to take precautions. President Samia was addressing the Bishops of the Tanzania Episcopal Conference (TEC) at their headquarters in Kurasini, Dar …

Tanzania has announced plans to allow pregnant schoolgirls to resume their education after birth, according to a new directive. Until now, secondary school dropouts were refused resumption of school after they went to give birth with government citing the negative moral impact of such girls on others. Leonard Akwilapo, a …

A handful of vaccine holdouts in the world’s least-inoculated continent could pose another big challenge for global efforts to end the pandemic. Burundi, Tanzania and Eritrea have so far rejected the World Health Organization’s advice to register for Covax, an initiative to distribute vaccines to poorer countries, with some officials …

Russia’s Government has on Monday announced the suspension of flights between Russia and Tanzania, with effect from April 15 to June 1, due to the status of the coronavirus pandemic. The Russian Government says it will review the suspension if the pandemic situation in Tanzania stabilizes. The suspension was announced …

An interpreter who handled President Cyril Ramaphosa speech during the state funeral of the late John Magufuli at Jamhuri Stadium in Dodoma, Matungwa Lwamwasha has admitted to have distorted the translation of what was being said by South Africa’s head of state. Lwamasha said, however, after the error occurred that …

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