Kigali, Rwanda | Damas Sikubwabo – NEW TIMES RWANDA| Tanzania Premier League giants Simba Sports Club have announced Brazilian Roberto Oliveira Goncalves do Carmo, alias Robertinho, as club new head coach on an undisclosed deal. The club made Robertinho’s appointment official via their social media platforms on Tuesday, January 3, just …
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Dar es salaam, Tanzania | Xinhua | Tanzania’s Zanzibar President Hussein Ali Mwinyi on Sunday opened the 6th Kiswahili international conference and urged delegates to make the language global. Mwinyi urged the delegates from across the world to support efforts aimed at demonstrating the importance of Kiswahili for Zanzibar, Tanzania, and the …
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Dar es salaam, Tanzania | Xinhua | The United Nations refugee agency commended Tanzania for its unwavering support in hosting refugees, a statement has said. The statement released on Friday by the Ministry of Finance and Planning said the praise was given by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Country …
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Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | Xinhua | More than 300 Tanzanian artisans are participating in the 22nd edition of the East African Community (EAC) Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) Trade Fair that kicked off in the Ugandan capital Kampala on Dec. 8, a statement said Sunday. The statement by the Ministry of …
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Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | Xinhua | Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan has pardoned 1,631 prisoners in commemoration of the east African nation’s 61 years of independence on Dec. 9, an official said late Saturday. Minister for Home Affairs Hamad Masauni said in a statement that beneficiaries of the presidential amnesty include women …
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Mwanza, Tanzania | XINHUA | The death toll from a Tanzanian plane crash into Lake Victoria on Sunday morning has risen from three to 19 by late afternoon, said the country’s Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa. Majaliwa, who visited the crash site on the shores of Lake Victoria in Bukoba district …
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Mwanza, Tanzania | XINHUA | Twenty-six passengers have been rescued from a plane that crashed into Lake Victoria in Tanzania’s northwestern Kagera region on Sunday morning, said a local official. The Kagera regional commissioner, Albert Chalamila, said the plane flying from the Julius Nyerere International Airport in Dar es Salaam …
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Governments and mobile operators are speeding up plans to shut down legacy networks as they navigate the high costs of transiting to faster and more efficient technologies. Nairobi, Kenya | BIRD NEWS AGENCY | African countries have begun retiring legacy networks – 2G and 3G – as the continent’s burgeoning …
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Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | Xinhua | A fire has broken out on Tanzania’s Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest peak, officials confirmed Saturday. William Mwakilema, the commissioner for Conservation of the Tanzania National Parks (TANAPA), said it is true that fire has broken out on some parts of the mountain, also …
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Dar es Salaam | XINHUA | State-run Tanzania Coffee Board (TCB) said Sunday that it would distribute 3 million Robusta coffee seedlings to farmers free of charge to boost production of the cash crop. Priscus Kimaryo, the acting director general of TCB, said all preparations for the distribution of the …
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