Government, drivers at loggerheads over way forward

Government downplays drivers` demands
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Tanzania Truck Drivers Association (TTDA) has raised concerns over government delays in fulfilling their demands made at Ubungo on driving licenses, work contracts and fines after more than eight hours strike earlier this month. TTDA General Secretary ...

For nine hours last Friday, the country was held to ransom after drivers of passenger vehicles decided to down their tools. They were protesting a number of issues, including lack of formal contracts from vehicle owners as well as a demand imposed by national Institute of transport (NIT) that they should undergo training each time they want to renew their driving licences.

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Nyalandu at loggerheads with Lembeli over hotel fees.
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A parliamentary committee has declared it will take to task the Minister for Tourism and Natural Resources Lazaro Nyalandu over failure to sign Government Notice (GN) on the new fee rates for hotels in the national parks as directed by the Parliament.

The outgoing European Union (EU) Head of Delegation to Tanzania, Mr Filiberto Sebregondi, has challenged President John Magufuli’s government to introduce fiscal reforms to widen the spectrum of revenue collection.

Legal experts in the country have called for a speedy resumption of the vote tallying and announcement of results of Zanzibar elections to avoid a constitutional crisis.

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Looking forward to an elephant ride
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The Hammer family from the left, Henry, 11, Wyatt, 5, Angie, Andrew and Lucy, 8, plan their year-long mission trip to Tanzania. prev. next. When 8-year-old Lucy Hammer heard she would be living in Tanzania for a year, she said she wanted to pet a tiger.

The East African Community (EAC) partner states will have to amend their constitutions to allow for the envisaged political federation in the bloc, experts have recommended.

A world-renown China researcher and author, Tang Xiaoyang, claims that Africa in general and Tanzania in particular is today very much like what China was a mere 30 years ago!

Charles Onyango-Obbo WHAT OTHERS SAY cobbo@ke.nationmedia.com W hat do these four incidents have in common? Last week at least 52 people were killed in clashes between members of the Pokomo and Orma communities in Tana River.The two communities have been locked in a local war over land, pasture and water.The next day two newspapers, The Star and Daily Nation, called the killings a “massacre” in front page headlines. It was grim reading. All local and international media noted...