Battle for TZ gas deal goes to court

>A leaked contract between Norway’s Statoil and the Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation (TPDC) is raising questions about whether Tanzania will gain the full benefits of its sizeable gas deposits that have been discovered since 2010 deep in the Indian Ocean.

>Human rights activists have declared they would go to court to file a petition challenging the newly-passed Statistics and Cybercrime bills in case they are signed into law.

>Stanbic Bank is set to earn multibillion shillings revenue through training local investors on how to benefit from credit funds connected with a project for development of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) worth more than $20 billion (Sh34 trillion).

Tanzanian fixer and businessman Moto Mabanga is threatening to block the recent $70 billion deal in which Royal Dutch Shell announced it had taken over British Gas.

The $400 billion gas deal Russia signed with China was a symbolic victory for Moscow as it is locked in a dispute with the West over Ukraine, but the scale of the deal is not as massive as it seems at first blush, according to analysts.

The leader accused of killing 40,000 in the dock

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Miss Tanzania organisers still battle in court
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The Kisutu Resident Magistrate Court today will hear preliminary objection filed by organiser of Miss Tanzania premier beauty pageantry Hashim Lundenga and the application filed by a founder of the beauty contest, Prashant Patel. In the application Patel is ...
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Zitto loses court battle, axed from Chadema
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THE High Court of Tanzania has dismissed with costs the case filed by Kigoma North Member of Parliament, Mr Zitto Kabwe, against Registered Trustees and Secretary General of CHADEMA, challenging disciplinary action against him that included stripping ...

A gay and lesbian group in Botswana wins a landmark legal case in the country's High Court, allowing it to be officially registered.