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The Botswana Patriotic Front believed it would have enough support to remove the governing BDP from power, which is led by President Eric Masisi. The Botswana Patriotic Front is endorsed by former President Ian Khama. Picture: United Nations Photo. GABORONE - The newly formed party in Botswana endorsed by former President Ian Khama was confident that they would win this year’s election. The Botswana Patriotic Front (BPF) believed it would have enough support to remove the governing Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) from power, which is led by President Eric Masisi. The BDP had been in power for over 50 years now. ...

Kuzeeko Tjitemisa   Front Page News   Khomas   WINDHOEK – As Namibia prepares to hand over the Sadc chairpersonship to Tanzania in August, the country feels it has delivered on advocating for the effective operationalisation of the 38th Sadc summit theme of “Promoting Infrastructure Development and Youth Empowerment for Sustainable Development” in the region. A bullish International Relations and Cooperation Minister Netumbo ...

By Staff Reporter, Dar es Salaam The Southern Africa Development Community (SADC); a regional bloc of 16 countries has formally endorsed the hydro power dam in Tanzania that seeks to develop 2,115 megawatts of electricity. The dam that has been criticised by some Western countries, will be Africa’s fourth largest in terms of power outputs and will be completed in three years through Tanzania’s own taxpayer’s money. Speaking during the launch of the 4 th SADC Industrialization Week, the SADC Executive Secretary Dr. Stergomena Tax applauded the initiative saying it will benefit other SADC countries that face acute power shortage. “We commend the efforts of President Magufuli to increase supply of affordable energy through the 2,115 Rufiji Hydro Project that will translate to lower costs of production and contribute, not only in Tanzania but also the SADC region.” Tanzania is hosting the 39 th SADC Summit that will be attended by other 15 member states. President Maguf...

By Staff Reporters, Nairobi and Dar Infrastructural development tops President John Magufuli of Tanzania’s vision for a new Tanzania, says his recent interview on Forbes Africa. He pursues the vision not merely in words but through actions on the ground. This 1 st August, 2019, Tanzania will be inaugurating one of the East Africa’s ultra-modern Airport terminals at the Julius Nyerere International Airport (JNIA): branded as Terminal 3 which will ramp up the capacity of 6 million passengers a year.   It is worth noting that East African country started with JNIA Terminal I with the capacity of handling 500,000 passengers a year. Then came Terminal II boosted the handling capacity to 1.5 million passengers. The multibillion JNIA terminals III to be officiated by the president himself, was executed by BAM International as a contractor, and Arab Consulting Engineers (ACE) of Egypt as project consultant. Works and Transport Minister Isack Kamwelwe recently t...

  MTN Nigeria Communications PLC debuted May 16 on the Nigerian Stock Exchange in Lagos [Temilade Adelaja/Reuters] A subsidiary of MTN Nigeria Communications PLC has been awarded a licence by the country's central bank in Abuja that would allow it to provide financial services, the telecoms firm said on Monday. Nigeria announced last year that it would allow telecom companies to provide banking services, aiming to give millions of Nigerians without bank accounts access to mobile money services - which have been successful elsewhere in Africa .

  David Rudisha (File) Nairobi - Kenya suffered international embarrassment in 2016 when a string of doping scandals brought the country famed for its distance runners within a whisker of disqualification from the Rio Olympics. "It was a time when Kenya faced an enormous challenge in terms of the very integrity of our sports," said Japhter Rugut, who heads the Anti-Doping Agency of Kenya (ADAK), established in the wake of the scandal. Kenya scraped through to Rio. But while its sporting authorities promised to clean up their act, Kenyan athletes have proved harder to convince. A year after the scare, Jemima Sumgong - who in Rio won Kenya's first-ever Olympic gold in the women's marathon - tested positive for the banned substance erythropoietin (EPO) and was suspended. In 2018, thr...

By Johnson Dube, Durban, S.A. I have been following up the tussle between the Government of Tanzania and Acacia Plc ever since it began more than two years ago. I am fascinated by the emerging African patriotism.  I am proud whenever an African country takes the big boys by the horns to wrench a fair deal from the onerous arrangements which the foreign multinationals managed to extract from our Governments, whether coercively, deceitfully or corruptly. Undeniably, in this effort, Tanzania is admirably the leading light to other African countries. Recently I have been reading communications from one Mr. Zitto, a Tanzanian Member of Parliament (MP). I am informed he is a vocal opposition MP who devotes his time, among other arears, on mining sector reforms. But what I see, he is on a campaign to derail the efforts by Barrick to takeover Acacia Plc and satisfy the pre-condition demanded by the Government. As a keen follower of the developments I have come to understand...