The minister of finance and planning, Mwigulu Nchemba, said that banks had gone through a difficult situation in the previous regime, adding that “they were suffocated”. However, they hardly admit to that fact. Mwingulu gave those remarks today, March 5, 2022, during the opening of the CRDB new Head Quarters in Dar es Salaam. Hon...
On May 8, 2021, the Tanzania Chief Defence Force Venance Salvatory Mabeyo announced an immediate halt of 854 SUMA JKT, a Tanzania’s National Defence Service Wing tasked with constructing a new State House in Chamwino Dodoma. The 854 sacked national service recruits were promised employment after completion of State House construction. Amid construction, they were...
At the High Court Division of Corruption and Economic Sabotage Offences in Dar es Salaam on March 4, 2022, Freeman Mbowe and three co-accused were declared freemen after spending nearly a year in custody on terror-related charges. The news took social media by storm, with pictures and videos of Mbowe’s loyalists seeing dancing, singing and...
Unprecedently, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania (ELCT) Karagwe Diocese Bishop Benson Bagonza, accoladed President Samia’s 1 year Presidency during his interview at the State House on 2 March 2022. The clergyman is renowned for being a vocal critic of the government about constitutional issues, the rule of law and human rights. “This has been...
Most of us know that white people and the Caucasians are the only race producing blondes. At our very unbeknownst, we have no idea that there is a group of dark skin people that also possess blonde hair known as Melanesians. Jules Dumont D’Urville first coined the term “Melanesia” in 1832 for a particular group...
Mozambique’s President Filipe Nyusi has caused shock waves within his government after sacking six ministers. The top ministers sacked by President Nyusi are; Minister Adriano Afonso Maleiane, the country’s finance minister, Ernesto Max Elias Tonela, Mozambique’s Mineral Resources and Energy minister. However, the President’s statement did not disclose the reason behind the purge.
4060 students selected for secondary education in January this year in the Rukwa region did not attend their respective schools. Joseph Mkirikiti, while addressing the situation before the education stakeholders, he linked the situation with absenteeism and truancy, noting that 80.2% of form one students attended to their respective schools. In the same statement, RC...
It seems that the Ukrainian President’s statement that whoever wants to join forces to fight Russian invades has attained an enormous response from across the world. A pro-democracy campaign in Thailand that emerged in 2020 has responded to the Ukrainian President’s call by registering at the Ukraine embassy for any possible recruiting. Chanaphong, 28, said...
In the meeting hosted by President Samia Suluhu at the statehouse in Dar es Salaam on March 2, 2022, the religious leaders who attended the function pleaded President to drop Mbowe’s case and the four co-accused. “The religious leaders used the meeting with President to ask authority responsible for that matter to end the case”,...
In her latest visits to France, Belgium and the UAE, President Samia Suluhu took on board some key cabinet ministers like the Ministry of Finance and Planning Hon Mwigulu Nchemba, the minister of energy Hon. January Makamba and Hon Hussein Bashe, the minister of Agriculture. Speaking before the press today, on March 2, 2022, Hon...