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Constitutional Assembly (CA) member, George Simbachawene gives his contribution during ongoing new constitution draft in Dodoma yesterday. The High Court yesterday struck out an application...

Dodoma. It is now official. Members of the Constituent Assembly (CA) drawn from CCM and those with a leaning towards it will defend the ruling party's stand on the Union structure. Party's head...

‘Oil and Gas: Fiscal Challenges of Tanzania's Production Sharing Agreements (PSAs) Zitto Kabwe[1], MP and Chairman PAC Dar es Salaam, September 2014 Introduction The recent leak of the...

“The law bars me from releasing information on investigations I conduct,” Mr Edward Hosea, PCCB Director-General The government has frozen an account in a bank in The Netherlands that is linked...

A 73 year-old man was found beheaded and his body abandoned at a footpath near his home at Kineng’ene Village in Lindi Municipality. Lindi Regional Police Commander, Ms Renatha Mzinga, confirmed...

Tanzania's growth accelerated in the first quarter of 2014 from a year earlier, on the back of a jump in gold production and power generation, the statistics office said on Thursday. Gross...

DEATHS: Over 800, 000 people die by suicide every year Tanzania is among top ten countries in the world with the highest rate of suicides, according to a new report released by the World Health...

Former Energy and Minerals minister Daniel Yona. Former Energy and Minerals minister Daniel Yona yesterday told Kisutu Resident Magistrates' Court in the city that the Bank of Tanzania (BoT)...

There is a possibility the issue of dual citizenship and Kadhi Court, which had been thrown out earlier, will go back to the Constituent Assembly (CA) for further discussions...

The Chadema secretary general, Dr Willibrod Slaa, shares views with Defenders of the People's Constitution (Ukawa) co-chairs, Prof Ibrahim Lipumba of CUF (centre) and Mr James Mbatia (right)...

President Jakaya Kikwete Wananchi have expressed worries that a new constitution may after all not be realised this despite reassurance by President Jakaya Kikwete and other party leaders who met...

CA member, Zarina Madabida The death penalty is likely to remain in the new constitution as members of the Constituent Assembly (CA) yesterday expressed general support for capital punishment and...

The new timetable was changed after the Steering Committee chaired by Mr Sitta met to deliberate on how quickly the CA could work around the clock to beat October 4 deadline. Barely a day after...

Earlier today, suspected bandits threw a bomb at a minibus, killing three passengers, one of them an infant, and seriously injuring six others. Confirming the incident, Buhigwe District Police...

Mtwara Regional Commissioner, Joseph Simbakalia Statoil Company has launched a business competition dubbed ‘Heroes of tomorrow' aimed at promoting entrepreneurship among the youth in...

Tanzania national flag carrier (Air Tanzania) has acquired a 50-seater Canadian CRJ-200 jet aircraft, as part of implementing its ambitious and aggressive expansion plan. Air Tanzania Company...

TAMONGSCO Secretary General, Benjamin Nkonya A countrywide School Inspection Week kicks off today, with the Tanzania Association of Managers and Owners of Non-Government Schools and Colleges...

36 people have died and 79 others severly injured in an accident involving 2 passengers' buses and a private car at Butiama in Mara region today around 11 hours. The passengers' buses involved in...

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Finally, president Jakaya Kikwete says he is ready to meet up with political parties forming UKAWA (the Coalition of Defenders of People's Constitution) to discuss way forward and see that the the...