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  Staff Writer, Dar es Salaam This week, history has been written in Tanzania; the government has issued the biggest ever down payments worth Tsh. 688.651 billion (over USD 309.64m) to construct the 2,115 megawatts and biggest hydro power plant in East Africa and the 4 th in Africa at Stigler’s Gorge along Rufiji river. The project which is financed solely from taxpayers’ money is expected to be completed by 2022. Upon its completion the project which has the reservoir length of 100 sq. km and covering an area of about 1,350 square km will provide sufficient power for the country’s emerging industries and exporting the surplus to other East African Countries    Handing over the dummy check to the Egyptian consortium, Arab Contractors and El Sewedy Electric Company which is constructing the project, the Permanent Secretary in the  Ministry  of  Finance  and Planning , Mr. Doto James said, “It was the first time for the government of Tanzania to provide such huge amount

By Staff Reporters, Nairobi and Dar, 23-April 2019:  DAYS after the International Monetary Fund (IMF) refused to comment on leaked report concerning Article IV consultations with Tanzania, the social media leaked report in Tanzania has proved Tanzania President John Pombe Magufuli is winning on his anti-corruption crusade. Perhaps contrary to the grimy picture painted by initial analysts on the report, which stands yet to be a verified original version, the leaked report contains massive appreciations for anti graft progress in Tanzania.                                            Anti Corruption Court The report opens up with a comment on President Magufuli’s promise that has been implemented on the establishment of the anti corruption court. “In addition, a special High Court   Division for corruption and economic crimes was set up in June, 2916 to address grand corruption cases,” says the leaked report at page 41 adding that the anti corruption drive is also

    Ghana is cracking down on Chinese gold miners working illegally  Chinese citizens who work at gold mines in Ghana will not be protected by their home country if they get snared in a crackdown on illegal mining, China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs warned after some Chinese nationals were detained for working in the African nation. Although Ghana allows licensed companies to do small-scale gold mining, “it’s still illegal for foreigners” to work in the sector, “and they will not be protected by Ghanaian laws”, the ministry said on Monday on the Chinese social media app WeChat. Some Chinese citizens had been detained “in recent days” for working at Ghanaian gold mines illegally, it said, without providing details. China’s embassy in Ghana alerted miners at the start of the new year that they faced the possibility of being arrested as the local government stepped up its crackdown on foreign operations. An official from the embassy’s consular affairs dep

Burundi refugee held at Nairobi Women's Hospital over Sh1 million bill   Ndayi Zaniye Ejide. Image: DELANNIE LUCHINA    September 18, 2018, is a day that will remain etched in the memory of Ndayi Zaniye Ejide. It's a day that not only left Ndayi-a Burundi refugee to Kenya-almost paralysed but also lost her daughter in a road accident. He was travelling with his family to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) headquarters in Westlands before the accident along Uhuru Highway. However, the pain and agony of this day still remain fresh on his head seven months later as he remains detained in hospital. October 2018, was the month that Ejide, the family breadwinner was meant to be walking out of the hospital to join his family and continue with his recovery process from home but due to an accumulated bill of Sh1.1 million has since then not been released from the hospital. The family of seven was initi

President Farmajo (L) with Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta (R) ahead of his swearing in Wednesday in the Somali capital, Mogadishu. Image: PSCU    On March 22, 2019, media reports indicated that a rather high profile visit by American government officials had taken place in Mogadishu. The US Envoy to Somalia Donald Yamamoto together with the commander of the US Africa Command (AFRICOM) General Thomas Waldhauser had held talks with Somalia Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khaire and senior military and government officials. The talks bordered on security partnerships in the region with a particular emphasis on the US Africa Command’s interest in the development of the Danab Advanced Infantry Brigade in Somalia. The brigade described, as the most advanced infantry units on Somalia will have five battalions and a brigade headquarters at Baledogle Military Airfield. The US officials observed that Somalia was critical to the security

By Special Correspondent, Dar es Salaam TANZANIA’s 2115MW Rufiji Hydro Power Project (RHPP) at the Steigler’s Gorge within the world-famous Selous Game Reserve in Morogoro Region has received a new major impetus. This is after the CRDB Bank Plc and United Bank of Africa (UBA-Tanzania) guaranteed financial syndication of TZS1.7 trillion for implementation by the contractors. The two Dar es Salaam-based banks’ syndication represents ten (10) per cent of the project’s local component of 30 per cent of the required total project funding of TZS 6.6 trillion.  Project implementation is by a joint venture between Arab Contractors and Elsewedy Electric Co S.A.E. Both are Egyptian construction companies and manufacturer of electrical products respectively.  The two companies will be working hand-in-glove with the state power utility Tanzania Electric Supply Company Ltd (TANESCO) as representatives of the Fifth-Phase Government of the United Republic of Tanzania. Th