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EAC member states sign protocol on common market
The five member states of the East African Community (EAC) on Friday signed the protocol on the establishment of a common market within the...
Kenya-Tanzania-Rwanda-Uganda-Burundi: East Africa leaders to agree on trade deal
The Presidents of Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda and Burundi are due to sign a common market treaty later today. The leaders are expected to...
International Criminal Tribunal: Appeals Chamber Acquits and Releases Protais Zigiranyirazo
The Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, composed of Judges Theodor Meron, presiding,...
Tanzania: The rebirth of Zanzibar?
Leaders from across the political divide in Zanzibar have joined forces to counter what they see as Tanzania’s Mainland’s uncalled-for influence in the isles,...
Tanzania: Albino killers to be hanged
Four Tanzanians have been sentenced to death by hanging for killing a 10-year-old albino boy last year, reports IOL. The court convicted them of...
Tanzanian farmers to be nudged towards the market
FAO is to provide the United Republic of Tanzania with advisory support for farmers that will help them better respond to market opportunities and...
Tanzanian President doesn’t believe China is “gobbling up” Africa
African leaders “have a duty to create the right climate for business” in Africa, Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete said September 28 in Washington. Kikwete...
Tanzania: Livestock get a new lease of life
A kid, his legs clenched firmly in the grip of a teenage rancher's hands, is unwillingly wrestled over to the opening of a hastily...
East African crisis: Cold feet from the West and an unrelenting weather
Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Sudan, Eritrea, Djibouti ... East Africa is currently experiencing a severe drought that is threatening, according to the UN...
Tanzanians to be hanged for gruesome Albino ritual murders
Three men who attacked and killed a young albino boy in Tanzania have been condemned to death by hanging, a Tanzanian court has ruled....
Tanzania: First Women’s Bank begins operations
The Tanzania Women's Bank (TWB) was inaugurated on July 28 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. This pioneering initiative, the first of its kind in...
East Africa: Broadband Internet development via underwater cable finalised
The telecommunications company SEA Cable System (Seacom) Thursday announced that it had finalised the development of an underwater fibre optic cable along the Indian...
Tanzania – Botswana: Breaking away from the vicious cycle of poverty, corruption and failed campaigns
Newly elected leaders of countries saddled with a reputation for corruption often loudly declare a war on corruption and set up a commission to...
Tanzania: Zanzibar counts its dead after boat disaster
Zanzibar authorities in Tanzania are yet to confirm the total number of people feared dead in Friday’s ferry disaster. The MV Faith which left...
Tanzanian President seeks US economic cooperation
Tanzania's President Mr. Jakaya Kikwete is outsourcing in the United States in order to secure tangible tools for the development of Tanzania. He is...
Global economic downturn: Africa walking a tightrope
As the world’s economic woes deepen, Africa’s leaders are delivering a strong message that the international community must help the continent protect the development...
Tanzania’s taste for cold-blooded Albino killings
Only last week, Jonas Maduka, an albino, was killed in the village of Sogoso situated in the north-eastern parts of Tanzania. Jonas had...
World Bank helps Tanzania fight Poverty
The World Bank has signed a loan deal with Tanzania to help boost the country's poverty reduction initiatives. The $160 million fund, which will...
Tanzania lags behind in foreign investment
Recent economic reports show that Tanzania lags behind neighbours Kenya, Democratic Republic of Congo, Zambia and also Madagascar in its ability to attract foreign...
African MPs to meet in Cameroon
The third consultative meeting between regional communities and African parliaments opens on Tuesday in Yaounde, the political capital of Cameroon. The meeting to be...
Hunt for Al-Qaeda terrorist in East Africa intensified
Kenya's crack anti-terrorism unit has deployed 100 specialised agents to help trace fugitive Fazul Abdullah Mohamed, an Al-Qaeda mastermind believed to have coordinated the...
Dubai World Africa sponsors first East African Investment Conference
The inaugural East African Investment Conference being held in Kigali Rwanda, has attracted prominent industry leaders and sponsors, including massive world market investor Dubai...
Football : Mauritius invites 18 players for Tanzania match ahead of 2010 World cup and CAN
The headcoach of the Mauritian national football squad, Ashok Chundunsing, has invited 18 players for camping in preparation for the match against Tanzania Saturday...
Great lakes region hold talks on good governance
A delegation from the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) is in the Zambian capital, Lusaka, for a meeting on the implementation...
Tanzania President warns of the consequences of high food and oil prices
High food and oil prices on the world market are challenges to Africa that should be checked to save many economies in the continent...
Africa to refuse cargo flights from China to Zimbabwe in their airspace
South Africa's official opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) Thursday called on the governments of Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique and Zambia to deny overflight rights to cargo...
East African Community considers a borderless market
East African traders would have a borderless regional trading system by 2010 to allow for free flow of goods, services and investments across the...
African Nations Championship : Results of preliminary qualifiers
Following are some of the results of the matches played at the weekend in the second leg, preliminary qualifiers for the first African Nations...
Tanzania reduces child mortality rates
Tanzania is on course to achieve one of the main targets of the UN anti-poverty goals on reducing child deaths as a result of...
‘Unfair’ EAC common external tariffs worry Kenyan traders
Kenyan manufacturers are calling for a review of tariff regimes in the East African Community to protect its industries against harsh common external tariff...