Call for unity on Katiba review

The Tanganyika Law Society (TLS) has asked Prime Minister Majaliwa Kassim Majaliwa to spearhead the push for amendment of oil and gas legislation passed by Parliament in July to enhance transparency and accountability in the extractive industries.

>What has been in controversy for several months about the referendum date now is clear. At last, what has been anticipated by the majority citizenry has been fulfilled – the referendum has indefinitely been put on hold.  Last year, President Jakaya Kikwete, while on a state visit to China, announced that the referendum day would be on April 30.  It was argued that the President’s mandate in setting a date for the referendum is given vide section 4 of the Referendum Act,...

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Egypt welcomes Tanzania's call for Nile deal review
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Egypt has welcomed a call by Tanzania for a review of the 2010 Comprehensive Framework Agreement signed by upstream Nile Basin countries, known as the Entebbe Agreement, to consider Egypt's water needs. In a statement, Egyptian Foreign Ministry ...

>From the historical point of view, we know that no human society in this world that has ever existed without any kind of legal system in any form, whether taboos or rules that governed its members no matter how barbaric and rudimentarily it was.

>Even before independence, Tanganyika had already identified poverty, ignorance and disease as three main enemies of development. The new government after independence under the leadership of the first president, Mwalimu Julius Nyerere, devised various development plans and strategies to achieve its goal of having well-to-do society that could not only be literate, but also enjoy good health.

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LHRC wants changes to Katiba review law
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THE Legal and Human Rights Centre (LHRC) has urged the Attorney General (AG) to consider amending all ambiguous sections in the Constitutional Review Act, especially the one pertaining to presidential powers. Speaking to journalists, LHRC Director of ...
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>The constitution making process has so far passed through three main stages. The first one was the formation of the Constitutional Review Commission (CRC), whose one of its basic functions was to collect, analyse public views and then issue the first draft Constitution. The second stage was that of preparing the second draft Constitution by the CRC after receiving views from the constitutional fora and members of the public at large.

>The Judiciary is one of the three main pillars of state, which is constitutionally established under Article 107A of the Constitution of 1977. In the proposed Constitution, the Judiciary is established under Chapter 12 in Article 167. If the proposed Constitution is endorsed through the referendum, which is still undated, will for the first time in the history of this country establish in the Judiciary the Supreme Court (Article 171 of the proposed Constitution).

>One of the weaknesses of our current Constitution of 1977, which we thought it could be cured by ordaining new constitution is an inferiority of Parliament to the President who is the Head of the Executive branch. The Parliament is unnecessarily being placed under the feet of President to the point that latter can dissolve it when it acts contrary to his pleasure in legislating or passing national budget.