Africa is one of the fastest-growing continents in the world. The continent has been bedevilled with infrastructure projects, but some African countries are currently bent on developing by investing heavily in infrastructural projects. Some infrastructural development includes roads. The citizens know how essential roads are to access quality and important services such as health care,...
Tanzania on Sunday reversed its decision to lift a controversial ban on wildlife exports a day after the move triggered an uproar in the East African nation. The ban imposed in 2016 was to safeguard the country’s protected animals and birds who were illegally being shipped abroad. On Saturday, however, wildlife authorities announced they would...
Cameroonian President Paul Biya tops the list of African leaders with an annual salary of $620,976. Mr Biya is followed by Morocco’s King Mohammed and South Africa’s Cyril Ramaphosa, with an annual salary of $488,604 and $223,500. The data was data scoured from country websites and data from organisations such as the International Monetary Fund...
Halima Mdee, a special seat MP and staunch parliamentarian won the attention of more than 300 MPs at the parliament in Dodoma when she raised critical questions to Bumbuli MP and the Minister of Energy, Hon. January Makamba. Halima Mdee raised her scepticism on the underway construction of the Julius Nyerere Hydropower Plant, which has...
The committee tasked to collect opinions of the Maasai’s living in Ngorongoro has submitted its draft report to the Prime Minister. Following the hitting debate amongst government leaders and the Maasai’s defiance of the government’s attempt to relocate them to the coastal district of Handeni in the Tanga region, the Prime Minister ordered the Maasai’s...
The acquisition of a new constitution, an independent electoral commission, the ban on rallies and scars for the 2020 general elections are among the issues carried by CHADEMA leaders to President Samia Suluhu when he met with CHADEMA and CCM leaders at the State House, Chamwino region. Dodoma May 20, 2022. According to a report...
Tulia Akson, the speaker of the United Republic of Tanzania, has confirmed before the parliament that her office has received the CHADEMA’s executive committee’s letter denouncing its 19 cadres that were sacked during the CHADEMA general summit of May 11, 2022. Tulia Akson revealed that the 19 women CHADEMA cadres, on May 12, 2022, went...
The Director-General of the National Housing Corporation, Mr Nehemia Mchechu, has dragged The Citizen to the high court for defamation. Mr Mchechu claims the Citizen, one of the leading Newspaper in Tanzania, has injured his reputation in Tanzania and international wise. The case hearing began last Friday in Dar es Salaam, presided by Judge Leila...
Over 4500 NGO licences are vulnerable to being revoked following the violation of the country’s laws and regulations. Deputy Secretary-General of Minister of Gender and Social Welfare Mr Amon Mpanju has ordered NGOs whose licences are immanent to termination to provide tangible justification not to revoke their licences. Many NGOs have failed to submit their...
While the New Constitution debate dominated the debates and speeches of various leaders in the CHADEMA General Assembly, a Ugandan opposition politician who was an official guest at the council said the new constitution alone could not solve the problem. Robert Kyagulanyi, popularly known as Bobi Wine, the National Unity Platform party leader, has said...