Cash-strapped AT seeks funds for cross-country

A majority of candidates aiming for seats in the Musoma Urban parliament are yet to  conduct a single campaign rally, only six days before the October 25 General Election is held.

>Plans are afoot for the Athletics Tanzanian (AT) to field 24 players at the African Cross Country Championship planned for March 16 in Kampala, Uganda.

>Publicly-held companies in Tanzania do not have a tendency to raise their capital through issuance of corporate bonds, a situation that denies institutional investors a chance to invest in major firms.

Country Seeks More Tourists
AllAfrica.com
Tanzania is pulling all stops to attract tourists from North America, Europe, Southeast Asia and South Africa. Already an online tourism marketing portal was launched by President Jakaya Kikwete at the same time as commercial television adverts, which ...

Nakumatt Holdings will finance the acquisition of three Shoprite outlets in Tanzania through bank loans, managing director of Kenya’s supermarket chain has said.

NGO seeks funds for dormitory building
Daily News
CO-OPERATION for Assisting Handicapped People Tanzania has called on good Samaritans to support them in their campaign, Mtoto wa Makete (a Makete child), which aims to construct dormitories for secondary schools located in distant places.

Cashewnut production in the country’s south eastern regions is dwindling and latest reports say that the crop might lose its importance as the area’s money spinner in the coming ten years due to a number of factors including delayed payments and the rising production costs. Investigation by this paper done last week has shown that the cost of production in an acre of cashewnut stands at 30,000/-. Comparatively, that is higher than that of sesame which costs only 16,000/-. Delays in...

Donors to Tanzania’s general budget support programme include the UK, Canada, Denmark, the European Commission, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Norway, Sweden and the World Bank. Photograph: Daniel Hayduk/AFPInternational donors have suspended nearly $500m (£311m) in budget support to Tanzania in response to claims that senior government officials siphoned off funds from the country’s central bank under the guise of energy contracts.
The chair of Tanzania’s public accounts committee, Zitto...

Tanzania: Cross Roads - the Line New Government Should Not Cross
AllAfrica.com
Children can die in flash floods or due to lack of shelter and so sleeping out in the cold, and in Dar es Salaam, of malaria after mosquito bites. This is the dilemma the government must address after demolishing houses claimed to be in disaster-prone ...