Tanzania Politics Discussion Board

I was reading Fitch rating magazine, it looks like Tanzania's economy is not doing well as it has been claimed by our leaders , Tanzania rating has been downgraded from orange means under...

Tanzanian politicians are calling for the resignation of the prime minister, Mizengo Pinda, after a government report implicated him in an energy scandal that resulted in the plunder of more than...

Dar es Salaam. Former Tanesco lawyer Godwin Ngwilimi has opened up about his role in the investigation into the Tegeta Escrow account, saying "time will ultimately prove me truthful." On...

ACROSS Africa the illegal slaughter of elephants is accelerating at such a pace-recent estimates put the number killed at 100,000 in just three years-that it threatens to exterminate whole...

Dar/Dodoma. Plans are reportedly underway to compel three officials to sacrifice their positions in order to save the government from crumbling under the weight of the Escrow scandal. This comes...

Dar es Salaam. Civic United Front (CUF) chairman Prof Ibrahim Lipumba now wants the architects of the Tegeta escrow scam immediately arrested. Prof Lipumba also said the accounts and properties...

CHANCES are that the Government of Tanzania will have to part with hundreds of billions of shillings in favour of the Standard Chartered Bank of Hong Hong (SCB-HK) following a judgment and demand...

Dar es Salaam. Former Tanzanian Ambassador to the UK and US, Ms Mwanaidi Maajar, is pessimistic over the government decision to hold a stake in natural resource investments through state-owned...

Harbinder Singh Sethi: The purported new owner of IPTL after his company, Pan African Power Solutions (PAP) bought the shares from Merchmar Corporation and VIP Engineering...

Dar es Salaam.-In normal circumstances, the price of fuel would have fallen in the past few years in response to trends on the world market. That has not been the case, though. When the...

Conspiracy theories fly after Mkono poisoned in London Musoma Rural MP Nimrod Mkono, who escaped death by a whisker while on a working trip to London. PHOTO | FILE Dar es Salaam. Musoma...

The National Assembly became especially charged yesterday, with lawmaker after lawmaker demanding that findings and recommendations by two public watchdog agencies on the Tegeta Escrow Account...

African presidents ‘use China aid for patronage politics' Most of the $80bn of development funds sent to Africa went to areas where national leaders were born rather than the most needy...

As oil and gas discoveries place Tanzania within the cross-hairs of parasitic imperialist com-panies, neocolonial president Jakaya Kikwete prepares to hand over Tanzania's resources at the...

An African elephant in Mikumi National Park, which borders Tanzania's Selous Game Reserve, in 2013 "The current situation for Tanzania's elephant population is dire in the extreme." So begins a...

Hi to All my fellow JF's members, Today I would like to share with you what is in my thought concern the so-called DEMOCRACY. The concept of DEMOCRACY sometimes can be defined as the...

The National Assembly has thrown weight behind its committee over the Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation (TPDC) officials' saga, saying the constitutional law surpasses all binding laws of...

The Independent Power Tanzania Limited (IPTL) plant in Tegeta, Dar es Salaam. The $122 million (Sh207 billion) Tegeta escrow account saga rocked Parliament yesterday as legislators from both the...

Hospitalised patients in various city hospitals are worried of their fate following new medical charges introduced by the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare and applied so far by key hospitals...