Ebola research receives $5.7m boost

Tanzania and Poland today signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) that saw the former receiving a concessional loan worth $110 million (Sh240.56) for modernization of agriculture.

Organisers of the Rock City Marathon have introduced short distance races to spice the gruelling 21 kilometre event planned for October 26 in Mwanza.

TMEA Tanzania Country Director, Paulina Elago shaking hands with TANGO Executive Director Mr. Ngunga Tepani during signing of Tshs 153 Million grant agreement.
TradeMark East Africa (TMEA) has today signed a 153 million Tanzanian Shillings grant agreement with the Tanzania Association of Non-Governmental Organizations (TANGO) to scale up the participation of citizens in EAC integration processes. The project seeks to empower civil society actors in Tanzania with knowledge/evidence and...

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The Government should subsidise costs incurred on Information Communication Technology (ICT) research to speed up social and economic development. The suggestion was made last weekend by the Vice chancellor of India's Avinashillingham University ...

NIC Bank Tanzania will benefit from Tzs 8.5 Billion of additional capital from the Bank’s shareholders. The funds will be disseminated in two tranches of Tzs 5.8B with the injection of additional capital from NIC Bank Kenya already done in December 2013, with the Tzs 2.7B balance from the other local shareholders of NIC Bank Tanzania expected within a period of 6 months but no later than June 2014.

“A growing financial need in this market has required that NIC Bank Tanzania further grow...

>Ebola shares the nasty distinction with HIV/Aids of not having a cure, or a vaccine.Ebola also kills you very much faster, and it doesn’t need anything more intimate than a handshake to infect.

President Jakaya Kikwete yesterday pledged to provide USD560000 (about 923.4m/-) to augment the fight against Ebola. The president was speaking to press after inspecting an isolation treatment centre for Ebola patients at the Temeke Regional Hospital in Dar es Salaam. The President also inspected the newly installed thermo scanners at the Julius Nyerere International Airport (JNIA). “I am satisfied with preparations both for the isolation treatment centre and the installation of thermo...

*UNESCO- Merck Africa Research Summit – MARS 2015 aims to prepare for the road ahead in Africa’s development as an international hub for research excellence and scientific innovation

 Merck (http://www.merckgroup.com), the world’s oldest pharmaceutical and Chemical company in partnership with UNESCO , Cambridge University and University of Rome  plan to conduct UNESCO-Merck Africa Research Summit – MARS which will be held on the 19th and 20th of October in...