Industrialisation drive cuts TZ imports from Kenya

Dodoma. The government’s goal to turn Tanzania into a semi-industrialized nation is officially starting this year, with a number of high-profile projects on the cards.

In My Book of Things, it’s never too late to take a bite or two at a mouth-watering cherry – especially one that’s invitingly dangled before one’s eyes! But, this time round, the cherry I have in mind isn’t the plum-like fruit of the ‘Prunus’ genus that’s so beloved of folk in ‘developed’ countries...

>President Museveni has threatened to block Kenya products from accessing the Ugandan market saying officials in the neighbouring Kenya Revenue Authority who are blocking sugar and chicken imports from Uganda are “myopic” and are contravening the East African Community protocol.

An importer of pork beef and poultry product will not pay Sh1.9 billion taxes after a tax tribunal declared that the amount demanded by the Tanzania Revenue Authority unlawful.

>I  know from personal experience and recorded History that secondhand clothing has been routinely imported into this country from the end of World War II (1939-45). The natives just loved British Army surplus-wear, including especially greatcoats, ‘ma-Joho,’ which reached to the shins, and could be worn with nothing under like shirts, vests, underpants, trousers!

Kenya's government suspends five officials from the wildlife service, amid growing alarm over the poaching of elephants and rhinos.

How Kenyan failings have boosted al-Shabab

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EAC Launches Industrialisation Decade - a Peep Into the Future
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East Africa opened a new chapter in its integration process with pomp and celebration in the picturesque Tanzanian city of Arusha, with the launch of the East African Industrialisation Decade. At the stroke of mid-day on Sunday, December 7, 2014, all the five ...
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Dar to borrow leaf from China's industrialisation
Daily News
TANZANIA will capitalise on its cordial relations with China to industrialise in line with the country's Five-Year Development Plan. This was said in Dar es Salaam on Saturday by the Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Mr Bernard Membe ...