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Ex-Tanzanian president Mwinyi, who launched country’s free market, dead at 98

Ex-Tanzanian president Mwinyi, who launched country’s free market, dead at 98

FORMER Tanzanian President Ali Hassan Mwinyi, credited with ushering the East African nation into free market economics, has died at age 98, current President Samia Suluhu Hassan said in a television broadcast. Mwinyi succeeded Tanzania's first post-independence president, Julius Nyerere, who left office in 1985 after 22 years in power. "On behalf of the government, I would like to convey my condolences to the family, relatives, friends and all Tanzanians for this loss," President Hassan said. Mwinyi was credited with introducing free market policies and was in turn succeeded by the late Benjamin Mkapa in 1995. President Hassan said Mwinyi…
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Serengeti migration: fire and rain affect how zebras, wildebeest and gazelles make the journey

Serengeti migration: fire and rain affect how zebras, wildebeest and gazelles make the journey

TANZANIA’S Serengeti ecosystem is like a time machine. As one of the world’s last remaining fully intact grazing ecosystems, it provides a glimpse of what others in Australia, Eurasia and the Americas might have looked like when communities of large grazing mammals roamed freely across these continents. T. MICHAEL ANDERSON, Professor of Biology, Wake Forest University During the Late Pleistocene, which spanned from 129,000 to 11,700 years ago and is sometimes referred to as the “ice age”, populations of these grazing animals collapsed all over the world. But those populations left a mark: the effect they had on plant communities.…
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DR Congo advance to Cup of Nations last-16 after Tanzania draw

DR Congo advance to Cup of Nations last-16 after Tanzania draw

THE Democratic Republic of Congo has set up a last-16 clash with record seven-time winners Egypt after playing to a 0-0 draw with Tanzania in their final Africa Cup of Nations Group F fixture. The Congolese finish second in the pool with three points following a trio of draws and advance along with group winners Morocco, who take on South Africa in the next round. It was a game of very few chances for the 12,847 crowd at the Amadou Gon Coulibaly Stadium but they could at least celebrate that Ivory Coast had secured a place in the last-16 as…
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Collapse of goldmine in Tanzania kills 22, official says

Collapse of goldmine in Tanzania kills 22, official says

THE collapse of an illegal small-scale gold mine has killed at least 22 people in northern Tanzania following heavy rains, a senior government official said. The accident happened early on Saturday in the Simiyu region after a group of people aged between 24 and 38 years old started mining in an area where activity had been restricted due to ongoing heavy rains, Simon Simalenga, the region's Bariadi district commissioner, told Reuters. "Initially we were told that there were 19 to 20 people who were trapped in the mines but unfortunately we ended up retrieving 22 bodies," he said, adding that…
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Four English non-league players headed to Cup of Nations with Tanzania

Four English non-league players headed to Cup of Nations with Tanzania

Four players from non-league clubs in England have been included in Tanzania’s 27-man squad for the Africa Cup of Nations finals in the Ivory Coast. Tanzania made no formal announcement of their squad but it was released on Sunday by the Confederation of African Football, one week ahead of the kick off of the tournament. Haji Mnoga, on loan from home town club Portsmouth at Aldershot and a former England under-17 international, was named along with Tarryn Allarakhia from Wealdstone, also in the National League, The 26-year-old Allarakhia previously played in League Two with Crawley Town. Somali-born Mohammed Sagaf plays…
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TotalEnergies hires former Benin PM to assess E.Africa land purchases

TotalEnergies hires former Benin PM to assess E.Africa land purchases

FRANCE'S TotalEnergies has hired former prime minister of Benin Lionel Zinsou to assess land purchases in Uganda and Tanzania as part of the Tilenga oil and East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) projects. Activist groups, led by Friends of the Earth France, are suing TotalEnergies over the projects, accusing it of failing to protect local people and the environment. TotalEnergies rejects the allegations. TotalEnergies said on Thursday that as the land acquisition process draws to a close, Zinsou will evaluate the procedures used, the conditions for consultation, the compensation and relocation of people affected, and grievance handling. Zinsou's consulting firm…
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Congo recalls envoys to Kenya and Tanzania over alliance launch in Nairobi

Congo recalls envoys to Kenya and Tanzania over alliance launch in Nairobi

DEMOCRATIC Republic of Congo recalled its ambassadors from Kenya and Tanzania for consultations after a new Congolese military alliance that includes rebels was launched in the Kenyan capital. Alain Tshibanda, spokesperson for Congo's foreign ministry, announced the X platform. The envoy to Tanzania was recalled because Tanzania hosts the headquarters of the East African Community, to which Congo also belongs. Earlier on Saturday, the Kenyan embassy's head of mission had been summoned to the foreign ministry in Kinshasa. The Kenyan government could not immediately be reached for comment. On Friday, Congolese politicians and groups including the M23 rebels, who have seized…
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Ethiopia, Tanzania and Morocco ranked Africa’s top tourism performers

Ethiopia, Tanzania and Morocco ranked Africa’s top tourism performers

THE end of a civil war in Ethiopia, Tanzania’s president featuring in a historical tourism documentary and rising infrastructure and marketing investments in Morocco have bolstered the three countries' tourism rankings on the continent, according to a new report. The three countries were ranked as Africa’s top tourism performers in 2023 after exceeding their pre-pandemic arrival numbers by the highest margins. “Africa recovered 92% of pre-crisis arrivals (in) this seven-month period, with Ethiopia, Tanzania and Morocco by far exceeding their respective pre-pandemic levels in January-July 2023,” according to the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) Barometer. The Barometer ranked Ethiopia…
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Tanzania flood deaths rise to 63, prime minister says

Tanzania flood deaths rise to 63, prime minister says

THE death toll from floods in northern Tanzania following torrential rains this weekend has risen to 63, the prime minister said, adding to hundreds of other deaths caused by extreme weather in East Africa since seasonal rains began in October. Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa said in comments broadcast on television that the number of injured stood at 116 people. Landslides had destroyed half of one village he visited, he said. "We are here in front of bodies of our fellows. We have lost 63 loved ones. Of the total fellows we lost, 23 are men and 40 are women," he…
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Tanzania pushes East Africa into an era of gas-fueled vehicles. But can it last?

Tanzania pushes East Africa into an era of gas-fueled vehicles. But can it last?

TANZANIA has pushed East Africa into a new era of gas-powered mobility with the commissioning of the country's first integrated compressed natural gas (CNG) filling station and conversion centre. TAQA Dalbit, a joint venture of Egyptian energy company TAQA Arabia and JCG Oil &Gas announced the inauguration of the facility branded as "Master Gas" on November 11. A press statement by TAQA Arabia indicated the facility would serve up to 800 vehicles daily. This is the first of 12 similar facilities planned for the East African country. "The new CNG Filling Station and Conversion Centre is a monumental achievement that…
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