On May 8, 2021, the Tanzania Chief Defence Force Venance Salvatory Mabeyo announced an immediate halt of 854 SUMA JKT, a Tanzania’s National Defence Service Wing tasked with constructing a new State House in Chamwino Dodoma. The 854 sacked national service recruits were promised employment after completion of State House construction. Amid construction, they were...
At the High Court Division of Corruption and Economic Sabotage Offences in Dar es Salaam on March 4, 2022, Freeman Mbowe and three co-accused were declared freemen after spending nearly a year in custody on terror-related charges. The news took social media by storm, with pictures and videos of Mbowe’s loyalists seeing dancing, singing and...
Unprecedently, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania (ELCT) Karagwe Diocese Bishop Benson Bagonza, accoladed President Samia’s 1 year Presidency during his interview at the State House on 2 March 2022. The clergyman is renowned for being a vocal critic of the government about constitutional issues, the rule of law and human rights. “This has been...
4060 students selected for secondary education in January this year in the Rukwa region did not attend their respective schools. Joseph Mkirikiti, while addressing the situation before the education stakeholders, he linked the situation with absenteeism and truancy, noting that 80.2% of form one students attended to their respective schools. In the same statement, RC...
In the meeting hosted by President Samia Suluhu at the statehouse in Dar es Salaam on March 2, 2022, the religious leaders who attended the function pleaded President to drop Mbowe’s case and the four co-accused. “The religious leaders used the meeting with President to ask authority responsible for that matter to end the case”,...
In her latest visits to France, Belgium and the UAE, President Samia Suluhu took on board some key cabinet ministers like the Ministry of Finance and Planning Hon Mwigulu Nchemba, the minister of energy Hon. January Makamba and Hon Hussein Bashe, the minister of Agriculture. Speaking before the press today, on March 2, 2022, Hon...
On March 19 2022, President Samia will mark her first year as the President of the United Republic of Tanzania since she took office on March 19 2022, after her predecessor’s unprecedented decease, the late President John Pombe Magufuli. Despite setbacks in her maiden days as the President, she managed to stir the country back...
In the bid to tackle the crisis of unemployment in Tanzania, President Samia’s government has been strenuously seeking viable solutions to mitigate the surging problem facing many youths comprising over 60% of Tanzania’s population. Responding to the problem, President Samia’s government has launched the program to build vocational training institutions (VETA) in different parts of...
he World Bank predicts Tanzania’s economy to expand between 4.5% to 5.5% this year compared to 4.3% in 2021, as a rollback of coronavirus-related restrictions in many countries boosts tourism and trade, its country director said on Tuesday. After initially downplaying the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic under the late President John Magufuli, Tanzania changed...
Masdar, a leading renewable developer based in UAE, has inked an agreement with Tanzania Electric Supply (Tanesco) to develop renewable energy projects in the East African country. The MoU was signed the Masdar’s CEO Mohammed Jameel Al-Ramahi and Maharage Chande, Managing Director of TANESCO. This is the second agreement Masdar has signed in the past...