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...
President of the United Republic of Tanzania, Samia Suluhu Hassan has urged world leaders to commit to ways to combat causes and effects of climate change. While delivering a speech at the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 26) in Scotland, President Samia emphasized on the importance of working together to change the world...
From December 2021, fuel prices in Tanzania are expected to drop following as the government adapts an economical system of importing petroleum products. With the new system, the government will directly import the products from refineries owned by countries through Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation (TPDC) rather than the current way of private companies importing the...
Tanzania Ministry of Agriculture to work closely with USAID to improve the agriculture sector through intensive agriculture research and utilize the role of agriculture extension officers. Minister of Agriculture, Prof. Adolf Mkenda met with Kate Somvongsiri, Mission Director for USAID Tanzania and discussed the ministry’s plan to improve agriculture production and ways for them to...
Despite having laws and regulations in place, rape and violence against women is still in increase in Manyara, Tanzania. Manyara is currently the second leading region in the country for gender based violence incidents after Iringa, with 3,641 cases reported between July 2020 and march 2021. From January to October 2021 there have been 49...
THREE members of the same family are in police custody as suspects of digging up and stealing a coffin with Heri Kijangwa’s remains (a man with albinism) in Lushoto, Tanga. Kijangwa (45) died on June 4, 2020 from cancer and was buried in Tanda village. On October 26, 2021 the perpetrators dug up the grave...
It is nearly two weeks since October 18, when Samwel Gibuyi, a pilot for an organization for combating poaching went missing while on a special mission over the vast Selous Game Reserve in Tanzania. Gibuyi’s plane is said to have lost communication before it went missing and nothing has been heard of neither the plane...