FEATURE : Villagers decry coal mine project

While it is a global practice that villagers living near mining sites benefit from improved social services, for Tunduwalo villagers in Mbinga District, it is quite different.

TheCitizen

Habari Zinazoendana

10 years ago

TheCitizen

23 Oct

Nigeria’s Dangote to invest in Tanzania’s coal mine

The chairman and president of the Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, is set to invest in developing the Mbinga Coal Mine in west Tanzania to power the Mtwara cement plant.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

23 Mar

Alert: Coal mine is threatening the environment around Lake Nyasa

I first learned briefly about Tancoal, the coal mining plant near Ruanda, a joint venture owned by an agency of the Tanzanian Government (30 per cent) and Intra Energy Corporation (IEC), an Australia company (70 per cent), prior to moving here in 2013.

 

11 years ago

Daily News

04 Jul

Suspicious villagers demand project report

Suspicious villagers demand project report
Daily News
Residents of Rwinyana Village in Bugarama Ward of Ngara District have insisted that they will not make future contributions to development projects until they get a report on funds they contributed for construction of a dispensary. The residents voiced the ...

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

02 Dec

Villagers find 8 landmines at project site

Eight unexploded landmines were found by construction workers on a piece of land in Kibondo District where experts claimed they might have been buried there over a decade ago.

 

11 years ago

Daily News

03 Feb

Villagers cry foul over power project

Villagers cry foul over power project
Daily News
MEMBERS of the public in Dindila Ward in Korogwe District blocked the Korogwe Rural Member of Parliament (MP), Mr Stephen Ngonyani, for about half an hour demanding to be told why electricity has been directed to Mgwashi Village. The electricity ...

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

19 Mar

Relief for villagers as water project finally takes off

The government has spent more than Sh286.9 million for the construction of water project in Park Nyigoti Village in Serengeti District.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

10 May

FEATURE: A project to educate young girls

>It started with a question, “What can be done to change this?” says Maureen Oduor. Maureen has been working in the area of girls and women rights since at the age of 16. It was back in 2003 when she was a Form One student at Jeera High School that she started feeling uncomfortable about the situation around her.

 

11 years ago

TheCitizen

29 May

Coal projects in doldrums

There is no hope for the implementation of Liganga and Mchuchuma coal mining projects after the government differed with investors in the two areas, this paper learnt yesterday.

 

10 years ago

TheCitizen

06 Oct

Ngaka coal to be used for cooking

>The Ngaka coal found in Mbinga District in Ruvuma Region will be soon sold for domestic use.

 

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