News & Current Events

Switzerland has 7 Presidents as Head of State.Yes, Switzerland doesn't have a President or Prime Minister acting as a Head of State nor a Head of Government like in USA, UK, Nigeria, or Zimbabwe...

Ukawa chairman Mr Freeman Mbowe. The Constituent Assembly yesterday ended the debate on the proposed new constitution with a dramatic attack on members of the Coalition of Defenders of People's...

Tanzania, which has Africa's best-performing stock market, lifted controls on foreign share ownership, the Capital Markets and Securities Authority said. The removal of restrictions on foreigners...

Chief Traffic Police Commander, Mohamed Mpinga Road accidents have claimed at least 1,078 lives between June and August this year, leaving 3,815 people with injuries during the period under...

President Jakaya Kikwete deliverers a keynote speech at the USAID Frontiers in Development Forum: Ending Extreme Poverty at the Reagan Building in Washington DC on yesterday. President Jakaya...

The economy grew by 7.4 percent in the first quarter – January through March this year- up by 0.3 percent, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has said. The rate is also higher...

The government has assured Tanzanians that there is no need to panic over risk of losing Pemba Island to Kenya following a case filed by Somalia at The International Court of Justice (ICJ) seeking...

Chadema National Executive Committee delegates and invited guests follow proceedings during Chadema's electoral conference in Dar es Salaam yesterday. Three major opposition parties, Chadema...

Kigoma South MP David Kafulila (NCCR-Mageuzi) wants Controller and Auditor General (CAG) Ludovick Utouh to hand over to Parliament the probe report on the Sh201 billion ($122 million) IPTL escrow...

Controller and Auditor General (CAG) Ludovic Utuoh After nearly seven months since the Independent Power Tanzania Ltd (IPTL) acquisition and the escrow account saga emerged, the original...

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)...