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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 …

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 …

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 …

They are five times cheaper than equivalent concrete ones | SOTIRIS KANARIS | It is common for residents of the Kigoma region in north west Tanzania to make dangerous crossings of rivers to reach workplaces, schools, hospitals and markets during the rainy season. But for many, such journeys will soon …

A peep into Amb Kabonero’s enduring legacy in Tanzania Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | THE INDEPENDENT | Tanzania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Liberata Mulamula has led celebrations of the role Ambassador Richard Kabonero in growing trade and good relations of all the countries of the East African region. Kabonero is concluding his …

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | Xinhua | Fourteen people have been reported missing after a light aircraft registered in Tanzania and owned by a firm based in Zanzibar crashed off the Comoros Saturday. Tanzania’s local media reported Monday that the 14 people went missing after a Cessna Caravan crashed into …

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | Xinhua |  At least seven farmers were killed and 14 others injured on Saturday by lightning strike in Tanzania’s southern highlands region of Rukwa, police said on Sunday. William Mwampaghale, the Rukwa regional police commander, said the lightning strike that was accompanied by a heavy …

First oil expected in 2025 Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | Finally, the international oil companies, TotalEnergies SE and the China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) announced they are ready to produce oil in Uganda in a US$10 billion project. Reaching this point had taken a whopping 15 years of …

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | Xinhua | Over 350 members of Tanzanian parliament on Tuesday elected 45-year-old woman as speaker of parliament, replacing Job Ndugai who resigned early January after he had criticized the government’s borrowing trend, saying it was unhealthy. Tulia Ackson, who was deputy speaker of parliament, was elected …

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania | Xinhua | Tanzania and Burundi have signed an agreement for the joint construction of a 282-kilometer standard gauge railway (SGR), according to a statement issued by the government of Tanzania. The statement, issued late Sunday by the Tanzanian Ministry of Finance and Planning, said the rail …