DAR ES SALAAM Regional Commissioner Amos Makalla has ordered city residents to take necessary precautions against Covid-19 including wearing facemasks and sticking to guidelines issued by the government and health professionals. Mr Makalla issued the directives yesterday during his ongoing tour of Dar es Salaam region since he was appointed to the post. “I call […]
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Dar es Salaam, Tanzania never stopped keeping track of the Covid-19 pandemic despite halting release of data to the public last year, senior Tanzanian government official has said. Deputy Health Minister Godwin Mollel told German broadcaster Deutsche Welle that the country has coronavirus data. “Statistics have always been there. If there were no statistics or […]
Dar es Salaam — Issuance of work permits for foreigners that currently takes a minimum of 90 days will henceforth take a maximum of 24 hours following completion of an improved online application system, the government revealed yesterday. This development is part of the implementation of the directives by President Samia Suluhu Hassan aimed at […]
Dar es Salaam — President Samia Suluhu Hassan will be taking her pro-business policies directly to members of the business community when she chairs first time a meeting of the Tanzania National Business Council (TNBC) in Dar es Salaam tomorrow. This will be the 12th meeting for TNBC since 2001 when Council was established, under […]
ELECTION fever is mounting as the Tanzania Football Federation (TFF) heads to polls slated for August 7th, this year in Tanga Region. It’s feverish to the aspirants of the various posts in TFF, but it is anxiety and high hopes to the Tanzanians wishing changes that will develop football to the higher level. Arguably, Tanzanian […]
Dar es Salaam — Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda remain vigilant in the fight against a third wave of the viral Covid-19 pandemic whose spectre is already casting an ominous shadow over the region. Tanzania – which was one of the countries that were not particularly vocal about the pandemic – has started taking action […]
SURELY, the world has seen several outbreaks of natural disasters of earthquakes, tsunami and predicted how to be alerted if another one is on the edge of erupting, but failed on diseases like Ebola virus, Yellow Fever, Zika, Influenza, Cholera, you name it including the Spanish flu that killed more than 50 million people more […]
IT must be hurting Simba a great deal after witnessing Kaizer Chiefs’ success last week in the first leg of their semifinal against Morocco’s Wydad Casablanca when they edged out their hosts by one goal to nil. Indeed, this must be very hurting for them for their failure to take out the South Africans in […]
Dar es Salaam — The government said yesterday that it never stopped keeping track of the Covid-19 pandemic in the country despite having stopped releasing data in May, last year. Deputy Health minister Godwin Mollel told the German broadcaster Deutsche Welle that data on the pandemic has always been there. “Statistics have always been there. […]
Dar es Salaam — Parliament yesterday passed the 2021/22 Budget after the government clarified a number of issues raised during debate on the financial plan. The final Budget was raised to Sh36.68 trillion from the Sh36.3 trillion plan that was proposed by Finance and Planning minister Mwigulu Nchemba in his speech to Parliament on June […]
President Suluhu Should Support Education of Pregnant Girls Tanzania’s first woman president, Samia Suluhu, took office in March 2021. Her administration has the opportunity to call on education authorities to end the exclusion of pregnant and married girls from public schools. She should urge them to adopt a clear human rights-compliant continuation policy that would […]
Dar es Salaam — President Samia Suluhu Hassan has arrived in Maputo, Mozambique for a two-day State visit where she scheduled to attend a Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) to discuss issues of regional integration, cooperation and development. The Sadc emergency meeting will be held under […]
THE Kisutu Resident Magistrate’s Court in Dar es Salaam yesterday set free 14 people who were charged with transporting people with disabilities from various parts and turn them street beggars to earn income. Principal Resident Magistrate Kassian Matembele discharged the accused persons after receiving a nolle prosequi certificate entered by the Director of Public Prosecutions […]
ZANZIBAR yesterday announced stringent preventive and control measures against the third wave of the deadly Coronavirus but maintained that the islands remain safe and free from the infection. “There is neither Coronavirus patient nor death in Zanzibar; the country is safe and there is no any bad indication but prevention is always of utmost importance,” […]
THE death toll from a road mishap, which occurred on Monday night in Morogoro region, has reached nine after two more died yesterday while receiving treatment. According to report, 23 injuries were still receiving treatment at the Morogoro Regional Referral Hospital. When the accident occurred on Monday at around 10:30pm, seven people died on the […]
THE Parliament yesterday endorsed an Appropriation Bill to set aside 36.681 tr/- from the national budget as Consolidated Fund, which is an additional of 352bn/- from the budget estimates tabled in June, 10th, this year. Speaker of the National Assembly, Job Ndugai said the endorsement signifies official issuance of 36.681tr/- for the use of the […]
Three of Tanzania’s profitable public companies will be subject to tighter government controls over their spending habits under a proposed fiscal law. The Finance Bill of 2021 was subjected to public hearing on June 18 and 19 before being formally tabled in Parliament for discussion and passed on June 22. It is expected to be […]
One of Tanzania’s most celebrated singers Naseeb Abdul Juma Issack, popularly known by his stage name Diamond Platnumz to release new single ‘Kamata’. The single campaign which is managed by Prime Music Partner, one of US Leading media distribution agencies, will be made available on commercial billboards and across other platforms. The song is a […]