Tanzania and Burundi signed a multimillion-dollar deal to build a Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) linking Gitega, Burundi, to the Indian Ocean. According to a statement released by Tanzania’s Ministry of Finance and Planning, a 282 kilometre SGR railway line will run from Uvinza in Tanzania’s Kigoma region to Gitega in Burundi. Officials from both countries...
It is Monday, January 17, 2022, a day that most girls will forever cherish as they get a second chance to re-live their dreams. Not so long ago, in late 2021, under President Samia Suluhu Hassan, news that revived hope in so many young girls, the hope that they can finally relive their dreams and...
Two years ago, on August 24, 2019, an American Peace Corps employee in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania’s after having too much to drink killed a woman leaving two others injured in a series of car crashes. At the scene of the accident, bystanders attacked the man’s car and chased him on motorcycles as he attempted...
Mwanza’s Regional Commissioner, Engineer Robert Gabriel’s convoy crashes with a hiace at Busega claiming 14 lives. A car that was carrying journalists to the DC’s visit to Ukerewe to hand over various development projects faced a head-on collision causing the deaths of five journalists instantly. Some civilians in the Hiace including the driver also died...
President Samia Suluhu Hassan appointed about 50 people to join the cabinet to take different governmental positions in the Tanzania cabinet. Speaking on behalf of President Samia Suluhu Hassan, Ambassador Hussein Kattanga mentioned a list of names and positions they are to take. The changes include reinstating Nape Nnauye to the cabinet as the Minister...
South Africa’s Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Mpilo Tutu has died at the age of 90 on Sunday, December 26, 2021, in Cape Town. Tutu was South Africa’s last surviving Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and veteran who pioneered to end apartheid in South Africa. He was appointed by Nelson Mandela to head South Africa’s Truth and...