Govt acts as losses mount after devastating floods

The Consultative Committee involving the Standing Parliamentary Committee on Budget and some Cabinet ministers have agreed to reallocate extra funds to 13 items in a bid to seal the 2013/14 national Budget deficit.

In the past three years, the government has taken various disciplinary measures against 867 servants in connection with public funds embezzlement.

Attorney General Frederick Werema said yesterday that it was not wrong for a Kenyan air transport company or any other party to use Mount Kilimanjaro as a business symbol.

The government has put in place stringent measures against rouge recruitment agencies engaging in leasing out employees to big companies.

>Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda yesterday directed the Ministry of Home Affairs to look into the allegation that 23 leaders of the Association for Islamic Mobilisation and Propagation (Uamsho) face “inhuman acts” in a Dar es Salaam remand prison.

Those who remember Ethiopia in the 1980s may feel a disturbing sense of déjà vu. The country is once again facing devastating climatic conditions: rains have failed, millions of people need food aid, children are suffering from severe malnutrition. But this is not the Ethiopia of the 1980s.

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Poachers devastating Tanzania's elephant population
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There are few more dangerous places on earth for elephant than Ruaha in central Tanzania. Over the past year, poachers have had a devastating impact. They've killed thousands of elephants. It is slaughter at an unprecedented rate. Our guide, Zacharia ...

Sierra Leone's President Ernest Bai Koroma told the BBC's Katty Kay that Ebola had a "devastating effect on the economy".

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