Nairobi, Kenya | AFP | At least 29 final year primary school pupils were killed in a bus crash in northern Tanzania on Saturday, along with two teachers and the driver, the school’s director said. “We lost 29 students and two of our staff, and the driver died too,” said …
Read More »Journalists ‘suffocating’ in Magufuli’s Tanzania
In Uganda, Police top list of perpetrators of attacks on journalists for fourth year Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | AFP | Press freedom in Tanzania is being squeezed under President John Magufuli, leaving journalists fearful. France-based watchdog Reporters Without Borders (known by its French acronym, RSF) ranked Tanzania 83rd out …
Read More »Magufuli fires 10,000 Tanzanian civil servants over ‘fake qualifications’
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | AFP | Tanzanian President John Magufuli sacked close to 10,000 civil servants on Friday after a government report found they had faked their qualifications. Some of the government workers are accused of falsifying exam certificates while others are said to have passed relatives’ qualifications off …
Read More »Magufuli condemns violence after Tanzania gunmen kill 8 policemen
Nairobi, Kenya | AFP | Gunmen have ambushed and killed eight police officers in eastern Tanzania, the presidency said Friday, the latest in a string of killings targeting politicians and security officers in the country. “President John Pombe Magufuli is surprised and very sorry to learn of the news of the …
Read More »Uganda, Tanzania make headway on pipeline project
Uganda and Tanzania have reached the final stages of the modalities of the oil pipeline project. Officials at the Ministry of Energy say that the cost of the project will be dealt with after design studies of the pipeline are concluded and after the line ministers and presidents of either …
Read More »Magufuli crackdown on critics sends shockwaves
Tanzanian President John Pombe Magufuli started off as a darling of African people when he took office in 2015 with his drastic cuts on public expenditure but his stance on critics is starting to worry his admirers. The latest incident involved a Tanzanian rapper who was arrested for releasing a …
Read More »Rwanda, Tanzania, Burundi start construction of Rusumo dam
Historic ground breaking ceremony completed for Rusumo dam to serve Burundi, Rwanda and Tanzania Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi have launched the construction activities of the regional Rusumo Falls Hydroelectric Project in Ngara, Tanzania. The project, first conceived two decades back, will when completed deliver a shared hydropower plant with installed capacity …
Read More »Tanzanians protest detention for 4 years without trial
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | AFP | Some 60 Tanzanian Muslims say they have been held for four years without trial on terror charges and have threatened to boycott any future hearings, local media reported Wednesday. The majority of the suspects, who include preachers, were arrested in the mainly Christian …
Read More »Rapper Nay wa Mitego freed after Magufuli advises him to ‘improve’ lyrics
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | AFP | Tanzania’s government ordered the release of a popular rapper on Monday, jailed over his song lyrics, insisting that President John Magufuli loves his music but advising him to include verses on tax fraud and drug use. Emmanuel Elibariki, better known as Nay wa Mitego, …
Read More »Tanzanian rapper held for ‘insulting president’ in song
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | AFP | A popular Tanzanian rapper said Sunday that he had been arrested over a song allegedly insulting President John Magufuli, seen as increasingly authoritarian and unwilling to brook any dissent. “It is true I am under arrest. Right now I am being taken to …
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