Local firms in Uganda and Tanzania will be subcontracted to offer support | THE INDEPENDENT | French firm, Ballore Transport and Logistics, will be the Main Logistics Contractor (MLC) for the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) project head of oil production in 2025. The firm said on May.09 …
Read More »Tanzania to buy sugar, ARVs from Uganda
Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Tanzania has pledged to buy at least 10,000 tonnes of Ugandan sugar and an unspecified amount Anti-Retroviral drugs-ARVS from Cipla Uganda. In a joint communique issued by Uganda’s State Minister of Foreign Affairs, Henry Okello Oryem and his Tanzanian counterpart, Liberata Mulamula, after a meeting between President …
Read More »Tanzania plans to end sugar, edible oil imports by 2025
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | Xinhua | The government of Tanzania on Monday announced plans aimed at ending sugar and edible oil imports by 2025. The plans were announced by the Minister for Agriculture, Hussein Bashe, and the Minister for Investment, Industry and Trade, Ashatu Kijaji, when they addressed parliament in …
Read More »Tanzania’s Samia Suluha Hassan in Uganda
Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Tanzania’s President Samia Suluhu Hassan is in Uganda for a two day state visit, and has on day signed health, security, energy and trade pacts. President Yoweri Museveni held a meeting with her at State House Entebbe before briefing the press. Share on:
Read More »Children of 1979 Liberation War share memories
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Children who were caught up in the war to remove President Idi Amin Dada from power continue to relive their experiences 43 years later. Uganda Radio Network has traced some of them, now adults in the late 40s and 50s, and they share memories …
Read More »Tanzania embarks on 10-year research to boost cassava production
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | Xinhua | The government of Tanzania has embarked on a 10-year (2020-2030) research aimed at identifying improved cassava seeds, a cabinet minister told parliament on Wednesday. Hussein Bashe, the Minister for Agriculture, said the research is intended to increase cassava production from the current 8.2 million …
Read More »Tanzania marks 100 years of founding leader Julius Nyerere
Dar es Salaam | Xinhua | Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan on Saturday joined fellow citizens in commemorating 100 years of the birth of founding leader Julius Nyerere. Speaking in a debate to mark the occasion, President Hassan urged Tanzanians to continue honoring what Nyerere stood for during his lifetime. …
Read More »Hundreds relocate to Tanzania from former Sango Bay land
Kyotera, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Hundreds of residents in the sub counties of Kabira, Kyebe, and Kakuuto in Kyotera district are crossing the border into neighboring Tanzania as government evicts them from the former Sango Bay sugar estates. These are part of over 10,000 people whom the government ordered …
Read More »Tanzania population census slated for August 23
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | Xinhua | Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan announced on Friday that the country’s National Population and Housing Census will be conducted on August 23, 2022, and urged citizens to be counted for their own benefit. President Hassan announced the date for the population census when …
Read More »Tanzania declares week-long country-wide crackdown on illegal immigrants
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | Xinhua | Tanzanian immigration authorities on Tuesday announced a week-long country-wide crackdown on illegal immigrants. The commissioner general for the Tanzania Immigration Services Department, Anna Makakala, told a press conference in Morogoro region that the force will leave no stone unturned in detecting the aliens. Makakala …
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