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By Staff Reporter, London Tanzania’s great performance and strides has triggered the African Leadership Magazine (ALM) to announced President John Magufuli as the 2018 winner for the award of the ALM Person of the Year-Political Leadership for 2018.    The publisher of the Magazine Dr. Ken Giami unveiled that President Magufuli scooped 62.66 percent ahead of other three African Presidents namely: Bola Ahmed Tinubu, National Leader, APC, Nigeria (10.41%), H.E. Cyril Ramaphosa, President of South Africa (8.82%) and H.E. Nana Akufo-Addo, President of Ghana (18.11%) .   According to Dr. Giam who unveiled the nominees and later the winners at the group’s corporate head office in the UK, the nominations for the 2018 edition of the Persons of the Year attracted submissions from East, West, South, North and Southern Africa. The publisher stated that “all the nominees have risen above the obvious challenges that their milieus have thrown at them to achie...

By Special Correspondent, DAR ES SALAAM BHART Airtel has agreed to end its investment row with the government of Tanzania by, among others, to increase stake owned by the Government of Tanzania in Airtel Tanzania from 40 to 49 percernt.   Following Bharti Airtel’s decision, the stake of Airtel Tanzania has now been reduced from 60 to 51 percent. The move comes after the President of the United Republic of Tanzania, Dr. John Pombe Magufuli, met on Saturday with the Chairman of Bharti Airtel, Mr Sunil Mital, at State House in Dar es Salaam, whereby they held talks on the development of discussions on the ownership of the stake of Airtel Tanzania. Shortly of the talks, His Excellency President Dr John Pombe Magufuli expressed his happiness over the stage reached in the discussions about increasing the stake of the government in the ownership of Airtel Tanzania. President Magufuli meets Airtel leaders in Dar President    Magufuli was also happy with Bh...

By Our ReporterAbdur Rahman Alfa Shaban 11/01 - 16:59 Alhaji Aliko Dangote still maintains his spot as Africa’s richest man according to Forbes Magazine. The magazine disclosed that as at January...

12 January 2019  South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has urged men to unite against rape and sexual assault in the country, calling it a "national crisis". Women were being raped and killed on a continuous basis and it was time to end gender-based violence, he said. He made his impassioned plea while launching an election manifesto for the governing African National Congress.Some 40,000 rapes are reported every year, though this is thought to be only a fraction of the real total. The president asked men in the packed Durban stadium, where tens of thousands of supporters watched his speech, to stand to show their condemnation. "We have made huge strides in improving the position of women in society... However, gender-based violence is a national crisis that we are determined to end, so that all South African women and girls may live in peace, safety and dignity, ...

By Special Aviation Correspondent, Montreal, 10-01-2019:  TANZANIA is about to make history again, when its national airline, Air Tanzania, debuts the second Airbus 220 in a grand plan to consolidate its fleet, intensifying competition in the regional aviation business. Air Tanzania, continues to keep East Africans’ heads up. It is a growing airline that operates all new aircraft, solidifying its positioning deep in the pristine African skies. Air Tanzania is the only African airline on the continent that flies Airbus’ newest product, A220 series. Aviation business experts sees an end to the dominance of giant airlines in the region. This January 2019, hardly a month since the Air Tanzania became the first African airliner to introduce the airbus 220 in African skies, Tanzania brings its sister aircraft, right from the manufacturer’s workshop in Mirabel in Montreal. Tanzania's newest Airbus, thanks to President Magufuli's devoted axctions Success Story I...

By Staff Writer, Kinshasa The runner-up in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s presidential election has rejected the result as an “electoral coup” and called on his followers to resist “a grave attack on the country’s dignity”, as the Catholic church said official results did not reflect polling station data. Martin Fayulu was beaten to second place by another opposition candidate, Felix Tshisekedi, who was declared the surprise winner of the 30 December presidential election in the early hours of Thursday.   The result theoretically means the first electoral transfer of power in 59 years of independence in the DRC, but was deeply controversial because Fayulu had held a healthy lead in pre-election polling. It has also surprised some observers who believed authorities would ensure victory for the government candidate, Emmanuel Ramazani Shadary , who was handpicked by the outgoing president, Joseph Kabila, as his successor. Senior church leaders made clea...

By Special Correspondent, DAR ES SALAAM A FISH trader Amir Aman tells Al Jazeera in Dar es Salaam, three decades are passed before he meets the most sympathetic President with a soft eye to commoners in Tanzania as President Magufuli does. Solidarity Forever as President Magufuli ends pension formula woes Al Jazeera reporter, Catherine Soi, concludes: “President John Pombe Magufuli is widely accepted as a symbol of decisiveness and integrity in Tanzania and probably in Africa.” Before her report is archived, President Magufuli takes the seat of the workers, the work that would be done by a trade union, and decides in favour of a Tanzanian worker.   When reporters do their search well, they are mistaken for prophets. In an emotional speech delivered by Tanzanian President Dr. Magufuli, perhaps the most rated in 2018, these words find deep meaning. He makes an historic decision in favour of Tanzania workers amid cheers and ululations.   He touched their...