LAKE ZONE: Agency seizes over 50,000 logs, timber

>Mobile phone traders here have criticised an operation by the Fair Competition Commission (FCC) aimed at seizing fake handsets, saying the exercise could have targeted agents of big mobile phone companies that import the phones instead of small dealers.

Police in Rukwa Region is holding Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) customs official Michael Mwingira for questioning over 665 logs and timber, which were to be ferried to Far East illegally.

Tanzania: TRA Official Grilled Over 665 Logs, Timber
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Sumbawanga — Police in Rukwa Region is holding Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) customs official Michael Mwingira for questioning over 665 logs and timber, which were to be ferried to Far East illegally. Before his arrest, Mwingira was working at TRA ...
Rukwa TRA official held over seized logsDaily News | The National Newspaper (press release) (blog)

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Madagascar authorities have seized a stricken Tanzanian vessel laden with thousands of logs of the rare and precious red ruby coloured rosewood, police said Wednesday.

>Some 320,000 men voluntered for circumcision by last month in three Lake Zone regions in a campaign to prevent HIV spread.

>Students and staff at Ukombozi and Nyankumbu primary schools in Geita Urban risk contracting infectious diseases due to lack of latrines

>Brutal killings of elderly people have been reported in the Lake Zone ahead of the festive season, The Citizen has learnt.

Kagera. Local residents are asking the government to speed up the implementation of a project to hook up Lake and Central Zones to a safe water reservoir at Lake Victoria.

>The UN World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) has picked Lake Natron as one of the world’s eight hotspots that ought to be supported and developed into tourists’ destinations.