Economic cost of Kiteto land crisis

Inside the Kiteto land crisis 2: Greed for land, dirty politics fuel killing fields of Kiteto
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Last week The Guardian on Sunday brought you a story on the recent land conflict pitting farmers and pastoralists at the Kalikala hamlet in Kiteto District. In this second installment Gerald Kitabu reveals how the unfolding feud led to the killings of more than 10 ...

>Tanzania is often referred to as a land of peace and we take great pride in the fact that this reputation is largely justified. Indeed, people elsewhere give us credit for it.

Chadema presidential candidate Edward Lowassa assured residents of Kiteto District yesterday that if elected in October polls, his government will form a reconciliation commission to end the ongoing land disputes between farmers and herders in the area.

He was famous as Mzee Mhogo, and not surprisingly. Cassava is one of the crops under cultivation at his farm at Chekanao village in Kiteto, some 18 kilometres from the district headquarters.

SPECIAL REPORT: Inclusive land use plan needed for farmers, herders in Kiteto
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In this third and last part of a special report on a conflict pitting farmers and pastoralists at Emborey Murtangosi area in Kiteto Diatrict Gerald Kitabu describes the current situation and brings the views of various land and human rights stakeholders.

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The government yesterday directed seven wards here to negotiate with Ortello Business Cooperation (OBC), a luxury hunting company, to bring to an end a lonstanding land dispute between them.

It seems that the cries by the Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly, who is also Kongwa Member of Parliament, Mr Job Ndugai and several other law makers about the wanton killings in Kiteto have not been heard by the government. If the government has heard the cries, surely it would have moved to normalise the situation.

>Tanzanian shilling has been declining in relation to the major global currencies such as the US dollar in the recent past. In the week starting January 19, 2015 we observed the exchange rate of $1 for over Sh1,800.