Election pressure evident in the just ended Bunge session

Bunge theatrics and last budget session revelations
Daily News
LET me say from the outset that I have tremendous respect for the parliament of Tanzania. It is the highest law making institution in the country and the place where elected representatives of the people air their views on various issues of national and local ...

The 11th Parliament has been inaugurated. Among many things the first session of the new parliament has set a tone under which it will operate in the next five years if things do not change. Performance of the 11th Parliament will depend very much on its Speaker, a position which saw MPs prefer Kongwa MP, Mr Job Ndugai, who in the last parliament served as Deputy Speaker.

My Tanzania never ceases to amaze me. But I’m more astonished by the politicians and even most so by the lot of the civil servants all for their lack of commitment to the jobs and responsibilities they willingly accepted.

Opposition Rifts Evident As Politics Enters the Courtroom (Again)
AllAfrica.com
Five MPs "shake up the Parliament." That is how Mwananchi, a leading Swahili newspaper in Tanzania assessed the ongoing 19th parliamentary session. Conspicuous by his absence among the big five is Zitto Kabwe. The fiery politician vacated his seat on ...

So Barack Hussein Obama has finally come to the land of his father as a fully-fledged president of the most powerful nation on the planet and quietly gone back to the US of A, his second homeland.

Dar es Salaam. In what appears to mirror the biblical David and Goliath clash, a Dar es Salaam resident is readying to sue Vodacom Tanzania over an SMS that would have made him a millionaire overnight.

US Secretary of State John Kerry’s foray into the politics of peace between Israel and Palestine appears to have run aground despite his tireless and single-minded efforts.

There's a New Hypothesis For How Uranus Ended Up Tipped on Its Side  ScienceAlert

Jimmy Thoronka was Sierra Leone's top sprinter, but after last summer's Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, he went missing, John Maguire went to hear his story.