Tanzania has adopted concrete poles for electricity distribution, leaving pine and eucalyptus tree farmers and stakeholders under pressure for the loss they might encounter as the wooden poles will be replaced with concrete ones. Most investors in eucalyptus production were solely aiming for TANESCO as their main customers not knowing there are other ways to...
Approximately 400 people die from motorcycle accidents yearly while 800 others survive with severe injuries, President Samia Suluhu Hassan told the public who attended the launch of Road Safety Week in Arusha on November 23, 2021. She further said that 90% of road accidents could be avoided if people carefully observed road safety rules. The...
June 07, 1968 Tanzania and Uganda and Kenya once had a dream – or a vision that we will one day become part of one larger unit. Some of us still hold to that dream and believe it can be made into reality. We have simply accepted a change in the timing for its implementation,...
President Samia Suluhu Hassan said the government will soon finish building a designated room for cancer radiation machines at Bugando Hospital, due to Ocean Road Cancer Institute having more patients from lake regions. Speaking at the hospital’s 50th anniversary, President Samia made it clear that 50% of all cancer patients at ORCI are from the...
Former Dar es Salaam regional commissioner, Paul Makonda to appear before court anytime from now for misuse of power allegations. As reported by Raia Mwema, the case is being instituted by a private practicing advocate whose name remains anonymous. All procedures for Makonda to be called before the court are to be completed this week....
Two truck drivers are facing charges with the exportation of scrap metal without a license from the Kenya environmental authority (NEMA). Isaack Njama and Francis Njoroge broke the country’s law enacted in 2015 that banned the exportation of scrap metals including spent-lead-acid–batteries (SLABs). According to the Scrap Metal Act, the owners of the trucks will...