Govt to increase defence budget, affirms Kikwete

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Tanzania military plan to increase defence budget by 30 per cent
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DAR ES SALAAM Tanzania (Xinhua) -- Tanzania has said that it will increase its defense budget by 30 per cent in the next fiscal year. Hussein Mwinyi, the east African nation's Minister for Defense and National Service, told the National Assembly in capital ...
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Dar es Salaam. The government has blamed revenue shortfalls for its failure to allocate 15 per cent of the national budget to the health sector.

>The government is increasing its defence budget by about 30 per cent as it seeks to keep the country’s borders completely secure from home-grown, regional or global security threats, a minister said here yesterday.

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Tanzania may borrow more to help finance its budget this year after foreign donors said they will withhold funding because of a corruption scandal, Finance Ministry Permanent Secretary Servacius Likwelile said.

The U.K., Japan, Germany and other development partners including the World Bank announced last week they will keep back about four-fifths of the $558 million pledged for the country’s 2014-15 budget. Foreign loans and grants account for about 15 percent of Tanzania’s...

>The government yesterday came out strongly to criticise the parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on the Sh306 billion Tegeta escrow scandal, terming the report false and malicious.

The government has raised civil servants’ travel allowances by up to 50 per cent after seven years of lobbying by trade unions.

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Deputy Minister for Natural Resources and Tourism, Mahmoud Hassan Mgimwa has said the government is set to carry-out extensive research, which is geared to find reasons behind the increasing number of tusk-less elephants in the country's national ...
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Mr chairman, a total of 12 Constituent Assembly Committees (CACs) have tabled their reports before us on their proposals for improvements of the Draft Constitution presented by the Constitution Review Commission (CRC).

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