EDITORIAL: Why sustaining a stronger shilling is an uphill task

When the outgoing Member of Parliament for Mwibara, Mr Kangi Lugola, displayed cheap imported goods in the National Assembly on June 17, 2015, to show why the shilling fell freely between January and June this year, some may have thought it was an isolated case.

TheCitizen

Habari Zinazoendana

9 years ago

TheCitizen

16 Nov

Uphill task for Nigeria's new economic team

Nigeria finally has a government after a wait of more than five months but the new ministers have their work cut out to reverse a damaging slump in Africa's leading economy.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

10 Apr

Attaining two-third majority an uphill task, says Kingunge

A veteran politician and Member of the Constituent Assembly (MCA), Mr Kingunge Ngombale Mwiru, has conceded that it will be difficult for CCM to secure a two-third majority of MCAs from Zanzibar.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

19 Apr

VP says attaining MDG on health an uphill task

>While Tanzania has made strides in realising target Number Four of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG), it still faces an uphill task in attaining target Number Five, which is on maternal health, Vice President Dr Mohamed Gharib Bilal has said.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

24 Apr

Member hints why writing new Katiba is an uphill task

Writing the constitution of the people is not an easy task, it needs time and common understanding among those involved in the process, the Constituent Assembly (CA) was reminded yesterday.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

08 Jul

Musley: We are facing uphill task to restore simba status

An appointed Simba Sports Club executive committee member, Musley Al Rawahi, has admitted that they are facing an uphill task in restoring the club’s status in the Tanzania Mainland Premier League and internationally.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

14 Nov

EDITORIAL: Take dirty people to task

>We have said it here before. We shall say it again today. Dar es Salaam is increasingly becoming a city in which residents don’t mind dirt. It might as well be referred to as a city of dirty people.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

16 Jul

EDITORIAL: Contain the shilling and manage the cost of living

A sharp rise in the prices of consumer goods ahead of Idd-Ul-Fitr celebrations sends the signal that economic stability has yet to be restored following a significant depreciation of the shilling against the US dollar in the past two months.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

29 Apr

EDITORIAL: Curb use of the dollar to rescue ailing shilling

>The Tanzanian shilling is in very bad shape, so much that some analysts describe it figuratively as a currency that is in its death throes. It is cause for concern for us all, for it pains that while you could have purchased a dollar at around Sh600 in the late 1990s, you have to cough up Sh2,000 today for a single greenback.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

10 Jun

Ikulu mission uphill for graft-soiled CCM

Corruption, more than ever has become an elephant in the room for the ruling party CCM ahead of its presidential nomination.

 

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