Indonesia’s Widodo marks disappointing first year in power

H.E. Joko Widodo, Indonesian president-elect
H.E. Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, President of the United Republic of Tanzania has sent a congratulatory message to His Excellency Joko Widodo, president elect of the Republic of Indonesia. The message reads as follows;
“His Excellency Joko Widodo, The President, Jakarta, REPUBLIC OF INDONESIA.
Your Excellency,It is with great pleasure that I take this opportunity to convey to you, on behalf of the Government and people’s of the United Republic of...

Global economic growth will be “disappointing and patchy” in 2016, the head of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, wrote in an article published in the German business daily Handelsblatt yesterday.

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Chinese Embassy marks New Year in Dar
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THE Chinese Embassy in Tanzania on Saturday will celebrate the New Year at Mnazi Mmoja grounds in Dar es Salaam with the theme 'Focus on Africa, Chinese New Year in Tanzania'. Addressing journalists in Dar es Salaam yesterday, Director of ...
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French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo will mark a year since the jihadist attack on its offices with a cover featuring a bloodied, gun-toting, bearded God figure, under the headline: “One year on: The assassin still at large”.

Tanzania Bureau of Standards (TBS) has announced that it is starting the new year with a massive expansion drive to curb substandard products imported into the country and produced locally.

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Over 1000 to access power in Mbinga next year
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MORE than 1,100 people in Mbinga district, Ruvuma region, will be connected with electricity next year through the Rural Energy Agency (REA), Parliament was told on Tuesday. This was said by Deputy Minister for Energy and Minerals, Charles Kitwanga, ...

The Legal and Human Rights Centre (LHRC) on Tuesday expressed disappointment with President Jakaya Kikwete’s Monday speech on Tegeta escrow account scandal saying it did not meet the expectations of the majority of poor Tanzanians.

Ongoing squabbles that have rocked the process of writing the new constitution are disappointing, Catholic Church Dodoma Diocese Bishop Gervas Nyaisonga has said.

>Street protests, noisy public rallies and boycotts are common these days.  They are not necessarily a bad thing. When people vent their anger openly, the authorities take notice and feel pressured into addressing them. Indifference can only breed tension and chaos.