His mother was a slave. Sheikh Abeid Karume was the son of a slave woman from Ruanda-Urundi who moved to Zanzibar when the boy was young. Abeid Karume was not born in Zanzibar The first President of Zanzibar, Sheikh Abeid Karume, was born in Nyasaland, now Malawi, on August 05, 1905. Karume hated and feared...
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OPEC injects millions into development projects
On behalf of Tanzania, the minister of finance and planning, Dr Mwigulu Nchemba, has thanked the OPEC Fund for International Development for investing $218 million (Tsh 504) into different development projects. Dr Mwigulu Nchemba met with OPEC representative in Dodoma yesterday, March 29, 2022, Dr Alkhalifa Abdulhamid and agreed on further cooperation between Tanzania and...
Samia launches software to address unfair water bills & monitoring water projects
In the bid to curb thievery in water projects and ensure effective monitoring of water projects and delivery of fair payment of water bills to citizens, President Samia launched an electronic system to assist the intended purpose. According to the Minister of Water Hon Juma Aweso, the device will call to an end malpractices such...
This is what killed thousands of fish in river Mara
Following the massive reported killings of fish in river Mara last week, the Minister of State in the Vice President’s Office Suleiman Jaffo (Union and Environment) formed 11 person team of experts to probe the cause of the fish in the river. Today, March 19, 2022, the chair of the committee, Prof Samuel Manyele, revealed...









